Interior Design MA
- Design
- Postgraduate
Create incredible spaces. Kingston University’s Interior Design MA challenges you to create sustainable spatial designs that respond to real-world problems and create future debates.
Create and transform amazing spaces
The Interior Design MA gives you an in-depth understanding of interior and space design
You will gain an in-depth understanding of interior and space design in different contexts, such as urban, public and private spaces. You will explore diverse applications to enable creative and employment opportunities in existing and emerging fields of work.
Through an unbounded design approach, the course integrates design, emerging technology, artificial intelligence, social context, ecology, policy and community engagement.
As part of Kingston School of Art's commitment to environmental and social justice, this programme gives you the skills needed to address global issues.
By leveraging London's dynamic interior design practices, the course offers an immersive exploration of interior and space design across urban, public and private contexts. You will engage in multidisciplinary critical work, combining research, analysis and practice-based learning, with projects that address real-world industry briefs and the global sustainability goals set by the United Nations.
Interior Design MA not only prepares you for a wide range of design practices and employment opportunities in the interior design industry but also gives you a critical perspective on sustainability and a strong foundation for problem-solving and collaboration across disciplines.
Student work
Yining Zhang
Sponge City
Yining Zhang
Sponge City
Salsa Chatab
Xinyi Zhang
Salsa Chatab
Salsa Chatab
Wanwan Ye
Wanwan Ye
Why choose this course
While you study, you’ll benefit from top quality teaching at Kingston University. Not only are we ranked Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework, we’re also Top 10 in the UK for Art & Design (The Complete University Guide 2026).
University museums and galleries
Kingston University has two on-site galleries, which offer exciting opportunities for career progression. Grade II-listed Dorich House is the former home of the sculptor Dora Gordine, while the Stanley Picker Gallery is one of the UK’s leading university galleries. Our Knights Park campus also has a bookable project space for large-scale exhibitions.
Workshops and studios
Explore, collaborate and share ideas in our state-of-the-art workshop facilities, designed by Stirling Prize-winning studio, Haworth Tompkins. Facilities are open to all Kingston University students, and include:
- 3D workshops, with spaces for ceramics, concrete, resin-casting, plastics, metalwork, woodwork, bronze-casting foundry, set design and large scale model making
- Animation and post-production studios
- A digital media workshop
- Knitting and sewing workshops with digital and analogue facilities, plus a working dress archive including from 1750 to the present day
- A HackSpace for collaborative, creative, solutions-focused projects
- A letterpress and printmaking workshop
- A moving image workshop, with studios, an editing suite and industry-standard equipment
- A fully-equipped photography workshop
The Complete University Guide 2026 ranks us in the Top 10 in the UK for Art & Design – covers Fashion, Fashion Promotion and Communication, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration Animation, Interior Design, and Product and Furniture Design.
The Art School Experience
As part of Kingston School of Art, students benefit from joining a creative community where we encourage collaborative working and critical practice.
Our workshops and labs are open to all disciplines, enabling students and staff to work together, share ideas and explore multi-disciplinary making.
Course content
This course is part of the Design School's Postgraduate Framework, which promotes interdisciplinary practice opportunities, underpins research, supports personal trajectory and industry contact, and includes a supporting lecture series.
Modules
This postgraduate Interior Design programme offers an open platform to develop as an interior space designer and other related areas of practice. MA Interior Design aims at the development of a high level of intellectual and practical mastery of the analysis and design of diverse interior spaces, with broader implications for spatial design. The approach of the spatial exploration, solutions and design involves research contexts transferred into new design strategies and design interventions.
Compulsory modules
Career opportunities
You’ll complete this course fully prepared for diverse design practice, as well as a range of opportunities in the interior design industry. Recent graduates have progressed to roles including interior designer, space designer, visual merchandiser, space researcher, production designer, exhibition designer and more.
Teaching and assessment
The teaching on the course is very much in line with the 3D Design Department ethos, involving studio practice, research, workshops, guest lecturers and visiting lecturers, who enrich the provision. We also have rich blended learning content.
Fees and funding
Fees for future course years
Part time
If you start your second year straight after Year 1, you will pay the same fee for both years.
If you take a break before starting your second year, or if you repeat modules from Year 1 in Year 2, the fee for your second year may increase.
Funding support for postgraduate students
If you are a UK student living in England and under 60, you can apply for a loan to study for a postgraduate degree. Find out more through the government's website.
Scholarships and bursaries
Interested in studying Interior Design MA at Kingston? The following funding support is available:
Student work
Adam Gojdics
Baina Badmaeva
Georgia Pearce
Hannah Gould
Izabela Heftowicz
Joseph Beadle
Kasia Turowska
Matilde Menezes
Additional course costs
Some courses may require additional costs beyond tuition fees. When planning your studies, you’ll want to consider tuition fees, living costs, and any extra costs that might relate to your area of study.
Your tuition fees include costs for teaching, assessment and university facilities. So your access to libraries, shared IT resources and various student support services are all covered. Accommodation and general living expenses are not covered by these fees.
Where applicable, additional expenses for your course may include:
How to apply
Before you apply
Please read the entry criteria carefully to make sure you meet all requirements before applying.
How to apply online
Use the course selector drop-down at the top of this page to choose your preferred course, start date and mode, then click 'Apply now'. You will be taken to our Online Student Information System (OSIS) where you will complete your application.
If you’re starting a new application, you’ll need to select ‘new user’ and set up a username and password. This will allow you to save and return to your application.
Please note: If you’re from a country outside the EU or EEA that’s classified as overseas fee-paying, you won’t be eligible to apply for a part-time course because of visa regulations in the UK. For information about exceptions, please visit the UKCISA website or email our CAS and Visa Compliance team.
Application deadlines
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Applications will close when the course is full.
After you apply
If the admission tutor wants to see your portfolio, we will email asking you to upload your zipped portfolio to the OSIS portal within three weeks. If we need more information or want to invite you for an interview, we will be in touch directly. After that you will then hear whether your application has been successful.
Course changes and regulations
The information on this page reflects the currently intended course structure and module details. To improve your student experience and the quality of your degree, we may review and change the material information of this course. Find out more about course changes
Programme Specifications for the course are published ahead of each academic year.
Regulations governing this course can be found on our website.
