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QUT (Queensland University of Technology)

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Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture)/Bachelor of Property Economics

  • Bachelor

Combine interior architecture with property economics and use your investment and creative skills to optimise returns and manage the performance of properties.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
4 years full-time
Course Code
419062, 096572C
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
ATAR
70

About this course

Highlights
  • Learn the expertise to produce interior spaces that enhance the quality of life and experience of occupants.
  • Undertake interior design projects in practical studio settings and participate in independent and collaborative problem solving.
  • Incorporate your creative eye with investment acumen to optimise returns and manage the performance of properties. You'll be valued in both the private and public sectors.
Highlights
  • Learn the expertise to produce interior spaces that enhance the quality of life and experience of occupants.
  • Undertake interior design projects in practical studio settings and participate in independent and collaborative problem solving.
  • Incorporate your creative eye with investment acumen to optimise returns and manage the performance of properties. You'll be valued in both the private and public sectors.

Entry requirements

Prerequisites

Satisfactory completion of Year 12 in an Australian school system or equivalent.

Study locations

Gardens Point

What you will learn

Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture)

This course is internationally recognised and provides you with the expertise to produce spaces that enhance the quality of life and experience of occupants. You'll undertake interior design projects in practical studio settings and participate in independent and collaborative problem solving.

Our strong connections to local industry provide you with real-world experience and insight into your career options through award-winning practitioners as tutors and promotion of your work in prominent public settings.

You will be supported by contemporary relevant teaching and a focus on new and emergent fields including small and large-scale design in real and virtual environments physical and digital experimentation body/space relations and design for health and social inclusion.

During the course you will conceptualise and develop your designs through expertise in spatial thinking and detailed resolution using models full-scale material constructs and digital animations.

Bachelor of Property Economics

We offer one of the few specialised property courses in Australia. Our course is concerned with all aspects of property: investment asset management development valuation and research with a focus on finance and the commercial property market sector.

Incorporate your creative eye with investment acumen to optimise returns and manage the performance of properties. You'll be valued in both the private and public sectors.

Other careers in property economics may include property valuer and adviser investment analyst development manager property and asset manager funds manager and positions in corporate real estate.

You may work in your own private enterprise or as an employee of property development valuation property management professional services investment or property finance companies. You may also work in government departments and local authorities concerned with rating compulsory acquisitions property development or property and portfolio management. Your work will usually combine a mix of office and field work.

This degree is accredited by the Australian Property Institute (API) and meets the membership requirements of a Certified Property Practitioner (CPP).

Career pathways

Careers and outcomes

Incorporate your creative eye with investment acumen to optimise returns and manage the performance of properties. You'll be valued in both the private and public sectors.

Professional recognition

Graduates qualify for membership of the Design Institute of Australia (DIA).

The Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture) does not confer qualifications in Architecture and the Queensland Architects Act (2002) restricts the use of the title ""Architect"" to professionals registered by the Board of Architects of Queensland.

The Bachelor of Property Economics meets the education requirements for professional accreditation and membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); the Australian Property Institute (API) - Certified Practising Valuers (CPV) Certified Development Practioner (CDP) Certified Property Manager (CPM) and Certified Property Practitioner (CPP); the Valuers Registration Board of Queensland; and the Board of Valuers Appraisers Estate Agents and Property Managers (BOVAEP) Malaysia.

Possible careers
  • Interior designer
  • Property development

Course structure

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture) and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Property Economics. You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Design component

You will complete:

  • four school-wide impact lab units (48 credit points)
  • the interior architecture major (144 credit points) including:
    • four shared foundation units (48 credit points)
    • eight units (96 credit points) from the discipline.
Property economics component

You will complete:

  • four core units (48 credit points) including a professional practice unit that requires completion of 30 days of workplace learning and a capstone project unit
  • the property economics major discipline units (144 credit points).
Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.

Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Design (Interior Architecture) and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Property Economics. You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Design component

You will complete:

  • four school-wideimpact lab units (48 credit points)
  • the interior architecture major (144 credit points) including:
    • four shared foundation units (48 credit points)
    • eight units (96 credit points) from the discipline.
Property economics component

You will complete:

  • four core units (48 credit points) including a professional practice unit that requires completion of 30 days of workplace learning and a capstone project unit
  • the property economics major discipline units (144 credit points).
Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.

Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.