Overview
Design plays a crucial role in shaping the world around us, from the spaces we inhabit to the products we use every day. Students in our program learn the business, history, psychology, and philosophy of design, and they create their own original work.
Select Your Concentration
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Concentration in Fashion Design
Fashion Design at Radford University provides students the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to express their creativity and realize individual design visions. Course work teaches students fundamental creative and technical skill sets including fashion drawing, fashion design, and apparel construction.
Concentration in Interior Design
Interior designers are imaginative, creative, artistic, and resourceful. Interior designers know how look at a space or blueprint, and visualize the completed environment. Interior designers work with products, textiles, light, color and materials to create an aesthetic interior for their client. In addition, interior designers must understand the structural requirements of their plans, the health and safety issues, building codes, and many other technical aspects.
Bachelor of Science
Concentration in Design Management
Design Management blends design with business. Graduates are well equipped to become managers within design fields. The Design Management Concentration provides provides students with a basic knowledge of business and administrative practices, functions, analytical problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Concentration in Merchandising
The Merchandising concentration provides a comprehensive studio-based education and prepares students for careers in management, retailing, merchandising and auxiliary fashion and interiors industries. Students learn to identify, research, and creatively problem solve through a series of courses that develop knowledge, skills, ethics, and creativity.
Why Study Design at Radford?
- You’ll have uniformly small class sizes with outstanding and dedicated faculty
- You’ll receive hands-on experiential learning
- We have MakerSpaces for you to hone your design skills
- Our campus has Industry-specific equipment
- Four concentration options give you a range of options for working in the design field
Careers and Internships
What are some jobs you can land with a degree in Design from Radford?
- Design strategist
- Project manager
- Fashion designer
- Interior designer
- Creative director
- Social media director
Roles in allied professions include building construction, furniture, textiles, styling, and sales.
Opportunities for Design students at Radford
All of the degree programs in the Department of Design begin by developing the basic skills needed for the major, including sewing and drafting.
Admissions Requirements
Any student receiving admittance to Radford University is eligible. No portfolio is required for acceptance into these programs and no previous experience is required. All of the degree programs in the Department of Design begin by developing the basic skills needed for the major, including sewing or drafting.
Choose a path to a well-rounded education
Students will combine this concentration with courses in other areas such as communication, economics, management, marketing, media studies, psychology, or journalism, in consultation with the student’s major advisor.
“I took just one design class to see if it would be something I’d be interested in. The first course I spent between 4 to 6 hours every single night in the studio... I have never worked so hard in my entire life on something. I was like, ‘Okay, this is what I want to do."
