Georgian College Honours Bachelor of Interior Design (BAID)
Georgian College

Georgian College

Honours Bachelor of Interior Design (BAID)

  • Barrie, Canada
  • Online

Bachelor's degree

4 years

English

Full time

Oct 2025

On-Campus

Key Summary

    About : The Honours Bachelor of Interior Design (BAID) program offers a comprehensive education in interior design, focusing on both practical skills and theoretical knowledge. Students learn to create functional and aesthetically pleasing spaces through hands-on projects and critical analysis, enhancing their design capabilities.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue career opportunities in various fields including interior design, furniture design, and showroom management. With a strong foundation in design principles, students can work in residential, commercial, or institutional sectors, contributing to innovative design solutions.

Launch your career as a professional interior designer

Dream, inspire, and create. This ARIDO- and IDC-recognized, hands-on program will prepare you for your career as a professional interior designer.

This program specializes in creating interior environments in the context of professional interior design standards and practice. The curriculum emphasizes space planning and management, design process, research methodologies, socially responsible design, building systems, technological applications, contract documentation, and interior design presentation. Sustainable practices, entrepreneurship models, and regulatory codes are integrated throughout the curriculum. Our program offers a uniquely collaborative learning experience that facilitates a hands-on model incorporating creative development, problem-solving, strategic thinking, and teaming protocols, providing our graduates with exceptional interior design knowledge and skills.

Why study Honours Bachelor of Interior Design at Georgian?

Integrated curriculum

Our program is focused on a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to provide our students with a solid foundation to develop skills, achieve goals, and launch a successful career in the design industry.

Georgian’s unique learning style includes a core creative design problem, developed in the studio, and supported by digital media, communications, and building science courses.

Industry recognition

Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO)

The Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO) is the professional body for interior designers in Ontario.

Georgian’s Honours Bachelor of Interior Design program is an ARIDO-recognized interior design program in Ontario. In collaboration with ARIDO, graduating students can apply for intern status through the Alternative Pathways into ARIDO Membership.

Additionally, graduating fourth-year students are encouraged to display their work with on the ARIDO blog each spring to celebrate their thesis accomplishments and share their talents with the design community in Ontario.