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The Interior Design program at Al Ghurair University offers in the first-year foundation courses combined with essential software courses, which triggers the student’s capabilities to plan and design indoor environments.

Starting from the second year the program progresses into various studio classes, from residential, retail, business, and hospitality, which provide them the ability to determine the appropriate design solutions based on function and habitat requirements considering the occupant’s wellbeing and safety. The studios are coupled with a group of specialized courses, where students learn sustainable solutions, healthy interior environment design, and light & acoustical design. Students will also learn to execute design by producing construction and design documents, as well as the materialization of the same.

The finale of the program would be the professional practice course along with the capstone graduation project and an internship program, which would be a strong stepping-stone for their journey as a professional interior designer

The Architecture program at Al Ghurair University is focused on the studio experience and has been carefully constructed to develop student skills in freehand and digital drawing, design theory and methodologies. Above all, it realizes each student’s ability to produce a major, complex and satisfying architectural design that can be showcased to professionals and the public at the completion of 160 credits taken over 5 years of study.

Consequently a balanced curriculum featuring courses within the categories of General Education, Specialization, Studio and Professional Studies builds a solid knowledge base complemented by acquiring the critical skills needed to enter the profession of Architecture.

The program is devised to encourage students’ special interests in subject areas ranging from structural and environmental design, to architectural history and theory, urban design, and project management. This in turn helps students develop their ideas in terms of career track, post-graduate study and professional development.