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About the Interior Design Program

The Interior Design program at Bellevue Community College offers a broadly-based and professionally-relevant curriculum that leads to a three-year degree: the Associate of Arts in Interior Design. The program challenges students to achieve excellence, and is designed as a terminal degree that prepares graduates to successfully compete for jobs and to function as professional interior designers. Program faculty are professionally active, and degree requirements include internships that provide hands-on work experience in the field. Program courses form the backbone of transfer agreements with universities offering baccalaureate degrees in Interior Design.

Mission

To provide comprehensive interior design education of the highest quality and be responsive to the changing needs of the interior design profession, its students, and the community served by our district, and to be accessible to all those who seek to continue their education.

Philosophy

Excellence is our highest priority. To fulfill its mission statement, the Interior Design Program at BCC strives to maintain the highest academic and professional standards for its students and for the department. The three-year curriculum challenges students to think creatively and critically, and to understand the abstract concepts of the design process, as it prepares graduates to enter the workforce.

Admission

Bellevue Community College has an open door policy, and all interested students are eligible and invited to apply. There is no pre-screening or portfolio review for admission, and new students need only to comply with BCC's basic eligibility requirements as described in the BCC Course Catalog. We value diverse backgrounds and seek to create an inclusive learning atmosphere with universal relevance. The Interior Design program typically attracts students from the Seattle metro area, but we also have students from outside the Pacific Northwest region as well as many international students.

Location and Administration

The Interior Design department occupies facilities designed and constructed in 1998 specifically for the department. Flexible studio, presentation and display areas, a large sample library, and a state-of-the-art CAD studio are among the amenities enjoyed by students and faculty alike. These dedicated facilities are supplemented by studio space in the Art department and a well-equipped furniture-making shop. BCC's lush, 95-acre campus is located approximately 12 miles east of Seattle, in the Puget Sound metropolitan area. This urban location provides ample opportunities for internships and employment, as well as access to showrooms and other professional resources.

The department has four full-time instructors, numerous professionally-active adjunct instructors, and more than 500 students. The program is administratively housed in the Arts and Humanities division along with Art, Music, and other Liberal Arts disciplines that comprise this organizational unit.