19 Best Design Bachelor's Degree Programs in Australia for 2024

With immense global urbanisation, never before has interior design offered so many opportunities to change the way people live. In the LCI Melbourne Interior Design program, you will develop the conceptual, theoretical and technical knowledge required to excel in a career where place and people meet, in a diverse range of private, public, residential and commercial environments.

Let’s get something clear: residential interior design isn’t just showing off the bargains you found in a tasteful little op shop in the middle of nowhere or showcasing the latest in Art Deco-inspired furnishings. It’s a language that speaks to a home's notion as both a physical and mental place.

Bachelor of Design, Creative Direction & Styling, is for students who want to pursue a career as a highly-skilled stylist to create new narratives covering both creative and operational strategies in contemporary fashion, food, interiors and event styling industries.

If you have a creative eye for detail, our Filmmaking & Photography program will provide a focus for you to explore interests in both still and motion photo imagery. Covering both historical and contemporary photographic and filmmaking methods, the program provides a springboard for you to produce creative and innovative visuals.

The design has been a form of communication since the first cave painting. This degree continues that ancient tradition by focusing on creating visual messages, ideas, and information for a range of audiences.

Bachelor of Design, Interior Design, focuses on a diverse range of interior design areas, including; residential interior design, furniture and installation design, retail interior design, community landscape design and commercial office interior design.

If you have creative flair and an artistic leaning, our Visual Arts program allows you to explore and experiment with your expressive nature. Entwined with theory, the program will support you towards realizing your creative vision through research, art history, traditional practice methods, and contemporary approaches to art in materials and process.

The Bachelor of Design is delivered over six trimesters undertaken at either Whitehouse Institute’s Sydney or Melbourne campuses.

In our Fashion & Costume Design program, you can look forward to a career full of glamour and style. Design principles are central to the course. You will create garments through applied design processes – from idea generation to mood boards and storyboards that address design briefs and trend forecasts, textile selection, and practical garment construction.

Bachelor of Game Design at JMC feeds this drive, providing the skills and knowledge to create fully immersive digital environments. Learn how to design, develop, and implement an idea, with an emphasis on creativity and expression through concept creation, digital drawing, environment modeling, and game-engine implementation.

Our Graphic & Digital Design program will provide you with a broad range of specializations, such as print and collateral, brand, packaging, or digital design. Whatever design direction you take, you can create and produce technically refined designs against objectives and outcomes outlined in the briefing procedure.

Bringing a character to life involves more than just technical ability. With that in mind, Bachelor of Animation at JMC has been developed in association with studio professionals from Pixar and Animal Logic, to help you tell your story from concept development to finished animation.

Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) at JMC provides you with the tools and skills you need to create innovative solutions in an ever-evolving world of interactive media. You’ll discover the true power of visual communication and storytelling, learn the processes behind creative problem-solving, and explore ways to create better experiences for people in physical, digital, and virtual spaces.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) involves the practical exploration, innovation and development of animated screen production. It incorporates research, idea development, screenwriting, storyboarding, character design and expression through intensive studio-based learning. It also covers a comprehensive range of animation art, craft and technical production methods, styles and outcomes.

From first semester, be immersed in a hands-on creative environment. You’ll have opportunities for internships, field trips to design projects and international study tours.

Start your journey to becoming an architect with Queensland’s most in-demand architecture degree*. You’ll be taught by real-world architects working in the field, and complete up to 100 hours in a real architecture practice. With a focus on innovation in design and sustainable development, a QUT Architecture degree will give you the skills and experience you need to design the cities and structures of our future.

In this course, students can specialise in one of three areas: Fashion, Visual and Spatial Design, and Games and Interactive Design. In Fashion, students work fundamentally with the garment as a site of expression and signifier of self that can carry narratives and reference histories; Visual and Spatial Design involves making visual and spatial products, services and environments through graphic and spatial design thinking to improve communities; while in Games and Interactive Design, students get the opportunity to create original digital interactive products and services that impact on audiences and address user experiences (UX). Students will explore the impact design has on history and on the future development of local, national and global communities. The course will provide opportunities for students to collaborate locally and internationally. The design majors, run by experienced graphic, spatial, digital, fashion and service design professionals and researchers at the forefront of design in Western Australia, encourage the sustainable use of materials, images and ideas as vehicles for exploration in relation to environments and individual people in real-world and online contexts. Students develop transferable visual and spatial problem identification, ideation, and prototyping skills to establish their own place in the world, with a personal style, career opportunities and entrepreneurial skills.

Explores original, self-devised and collaborative approaches to researching, creating, producing and presenting contemporary art practice.

The Bachelor of Art and Design provides the opportunity to develop your artistic range and skills base, while also building your understanding of art theory.