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Year 5 - Interior Architecture Expert Cycle

Develop your artistic and technical skills with a full 5-year course. Combining theoretical and practical learning, you will experiment with all the techniques and creative worlds of architecture. The aim? To make you a recognised architect in Interior Architecture, Scenography or Space Design.

  • Duration

    1 year, classroom-based

  • HOURS OF LESSONS/YEAR

    +500 hours of teaching

  • certificate assessment

    Work placements based on interior design projects
    Oral presentations of work and projects in front of professionals

  • Internship & work-study

    From September 2025, the 5th year will be offered as an initial training course or apprenticeship

Year 5

Interior Architecture Expert Cycle

You’ve got the skills and know-how, all that’s left is to prepare for your arrival on the market.
This 5th year pays particular attention to the future professional life of our students and focuses on consolidating their profile in line with their identity as interior designers and market developments. You will work at the heart of projects, from analysing demand to designing a variety of spaces.

At ESMA we take success seriously.

  • 95% Success rate (2023)

  • 90% Overall job entry rate at 6 months (2022)

  • 78% Rate of entry into the target occupation in 2 years (2021)

What does the final year involve?

The home stretch for making your dreams come true.

Entering the job market takes preparation.

During this final year, our students update their knowledge and analyse market trends in relation to their identity as interior designers.

Standards, legislation, changing needs… To showcase the hard work and dedication they have already demonstrated, our students also learn the legal and administrative basics needed to set up a business.

Discover the associated professions

Objectives

  • Designing an interior architecture programme
  • Understanding project management operations
  • Interacting with the various players involved in an interior architecture project (project owner, trades, institutions)
  • Refine your career plans

Our teachings

Internship & Work-study

Your future career is waiting for you!

Because there is no better way to learn a trade than to practise it, you have the option of doing this 5th year as an initial course or an apprenticeship!

This is your chance to put the knowledge you've acquired into practice, get hands-on experience, build up your network and position yourself on the job market.

Validation of the training by a Professional Certification

Title RNCP39489 Interior Architect, level 7 (equivalent to Bac 5), registered on 01/10/2024.

Certifiers: Ecoles créatives Montpellier.

 

Professional certification is obtained by validating 3 blocks of skills:

  • BLOCK 1 – Analyse and develop the creative design of an interior architecture project
  • BLOCK 2 – Develop the technical aspects of an interior architecture project
  • BLOCK 3 – Organise and manage the execution of an interior architecture project

 

The certification is also accessible by VAE.

The teaching and assessment methods can be adapted to compensate for any disability, in accordance with the RNCP reference framework.

More information on France Compétences

The achievements
of students

Creative excellence is their leitmotiv

Discover all the projets

Any other questions?

Contact the campuses for any further information.

The curriculum

Interior Architecture

A 5-year course validated by a Level 7 RNCP qualification (equivalent to Bac+5)