Interior Designing courses

About New Zealand Diploma In Interior Design (commercial) in Unitec Institute of Technology

Programme overview

This programme is an extension of the New Zealand Diploma of Interior Design (Residential) (which is also a prerequisite for this commercial programme) and prepares you to develop your knowledge and extend your skills into commercial environments. If you’re looking to enter the commercial interiors industry or if you’re already working in this field and would like hold the formal qualification, this is the programme for you.

Our industry focused approach to learning interior design, means that in addition to developing your necessary knowledge and skills in commercial interior design, we also integrate you into the industry. You’ll do this through practical learning, facilitated industry connections, working on actual client projects, guest speakers from industry, undertaking internships within specialist design practices, and much more. 

This diploma will advance your technical knowledge and skills of CAD, consenting and documentation processes, products, materials and lighting design in order to equip you to design for complex environments within the retail, hospitality and workplace sectors.

Highlights

• Highly industry integrated and connected
• Work in 2 internships with practising commercial designers
• Work on actual client projects
• Practical projects which model current design processes used within industry practice.
• Off site visits to trade suppliers and manufacturers
• Guest speakers from industry
• Programme content includes lighting design and furniture design
• Focus on “work ready skills” that can be used in practice
• Knowledgeable and skilled staff. Many of your lecturers are practising professionals at the top in their field

Career Options

• Junior interior designer (commercial)
• Commercial interior designer within a design or architectural practice
• Specialist sales roles e.g. architectural representatives
• Design stylist

Academic qualification equivalents

• A minimum of 3 years secondary education

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS      :        An overall IELTS band score (Academic Format) of 6 with no band score lower than 5.5. 
  TOEFL    :        overall TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) Score of 60 (writing 18)
  PTE         :        (Academic) with a score of 50 with no score lower than 42

Unitec Institute of Technology Tuition Fees

New Zealand Living Expenses

In addition to your tuition and insurance fees, you will need between $20,000 and $25,000 per year ($380–480 per week) for accommodation/rent, food expenses, transportation costs, phone bills, internet usage and entertainment. No matter what your tuition or course fee is, the average living expense will be same for everyone. Please note that these amounts are just recommendations, Immigration New Zealand requirement is $15,000 per year plus return airfare or additional $2,000.

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