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Interior Architecture

Course details
  • BA (Hons)
  • 3 Years
  • Full-time
  • 22/09/2025
  • Undergraduate
Course location
Cardiff Met - Llandaff
Awarded by:
Cardiff Metropolitan University (Prifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd)

Course summary

Remodel, redesign, and reinvent the spaces of the future.

Interior Architects shape the spaces we inhabit, working to design functional, accessible, stimulating and sustainable environments. Driven by a people-centred approach to designing spaces, you will work to enhance the quality, wellbeing and needs of those that inhabit and interact within them.

The programme sits within the Architecture and Designed Environments department, benefitting from ongoing collaboration with Architects, Interior Designers and Architectural Design Technologists. Interior Architecture benefits from cutting-edge research and applied practice in sustainable and inclusive design.

You will focus on the adaptation, reuse, remodelling and augmentation of pre-existing spaces. With a focus on sustainability, you will explore approaches to creating both permanent and temporary design solutions. Comprehensive facilities will ensure that you develop a rich creative and technical architectural language, ranging from sketching to data-rich immersive digital simulations.

Your studio-based practice will include critical theory, exploration, and a variety of briefs. You will work with industry and the wider sector to explore the relationships between places and spaces, and the values of the communities that use them. You will investigate the responsible and thoughtful use of materials, structures and spaces, to propose innovative and sophisticated solutions to the problems of the future. As part of this degree, you will undertake interdisciplinary learning experiences that are designed to shape you into an adaptable 21st century graduate.

Qualified teacher status (QTS)

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

  • Course does not award QTS

How to apply

Apply by
29 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
K561
Institution code:
C20
Campus name:
Cardiff Met - Llandaff
Campus Code:
1

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff

96 - 120 points
96 - 120 points to include 3 A levels or equivalent.

A level

CCC - BBB
Other grade combinations totalling 96 - 120 points considered with a minimum of three A levels.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

MMM - DDM

Access to HE Diploma

D: 33 credits M: 0 credits P: 12 credits
96 - 120 points, other grade combinations accepted.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

96 - 120 points, considered in combination with other Level 3 qualifications.

Scottish Advanced Higher

DDD - CCC
Other grade combinations totalling 96 - 120 points considered with a minimum of two Scottish Advanced Highers.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

24 points
24 points to include portfolio.

WJEC Level 3 Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales

Welsh Advanced Skills Baccalaureate considered as the third subject

Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (last awarded Summer 2024)

Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate considered as the third A level

Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)

H2, H2, H2, H2
Other grade combinations totalling 96 - 120 points considered with a minimum of two H2 grades. Minimum grade H4 considered within points.

GCSE/National 4/National 5

Five GCSEs at grade C or above/grade 4 or above to include English Language and Mathematics. For Welsh applicants we will accept either GCSE Mathematics or Mathematics-Numeracy. Five Scottish National 5 subjects at grade C or above to include English Language and Mathematics

OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma

MMM - DDM

OCR Cambridge Technical Diploma

96 - 120 points, considered in combination with other Level 3 qualifications.

If your qualifications are not listed above, please contact Cardiff Met Admissions who will advise you

Find out more about qualification requirements for this course.

Additional entry requirements

Interview
Portfolio

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6No element lower than 5.5. Academic IELTS test required.
PTE Academic52No element lower than 51
TOEFL (iBT)72TOEFL Internet required.
Cambridge English AdvancedLevel B2Minimum 169 (no element lower than 162)

Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

Update on Historical Entry Grades Data
Please note that some courses include a foundation year, which has affected the accuracy of the data in this tool, which does not differentiate between Yr 0 entry and Yr 1 entry. As a result, these courses have been excluded this year. You can find more information on our website: www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/afteryouapply
This is the first year of the historical entry data tool (below), and we are committed to making improvements for future application cycles.

Learn more on the Cardiff Metropolitan University website

Historical entry grades data BETA

This section shows the range of grades students (with UK A-Levels or Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diplomas) who received offers were previously accepted with (learn more). It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place. Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.

Not enough data available

We are unable to show previous accepted grades for this course. This could be because the course is new, it's a postgraduate course, there isn't enough historical data, or the provider has opted out of sharing their entry grades data for this course - learn more.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

LocationFeeYear
England£9535Year 1
Northern Ireland£9535Year 1
Scotland£9535Year 1
Wales£9535Year 1
EU£16000Year 1
International£16000Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

For additional costs, please refer to - https://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/additionalcosts
Fee information can be found at - https://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/fees

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