Utah·Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations·SOC 27-1025

Best Interior Designer programs in Utah, ranked by enrollment

Plan, design, and furnish the internal space of rooms or buildings. Design interior environments or create physical layouts that are practical, aesthetic, and conducive to the intended purposes.

7 schools in Utah run programs that feed this job, graduating 157 people a year. The job pays a median of $61,740 in Utah across about 1,110 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledDesignerInterior DesignerInterior Design ConsultantInterior Design CoordinatorStylistDecoratorHome DesignerRoom Designer
Graduates / yr
157
in Utah
Median pay · Utah
$61,740
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
1,110
people employed
Schools
7
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
54%
across those schools
Median net price
$13,712
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Utah that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

3 programs in Utah that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Utah (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Utah page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 50.0408In Utah
120
76.4%
4$31,611$26,000
2
CIP 04.0501In Utah
20
12.7%
1$44,811$23,250
3
CIP 19.0604In Utah
17
10.8%
2$38,637$25,683

Top 7 schools in Utah

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 3 of the 7 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Ensign College
Salt Lake City, UT Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
45Interior Design43%$11,149
2Weber State University
Ogden, UT Public · 1 feeder programs
33Interior Design$40,50746%
3Salt Lake Community College
Salt Lake City, UT Public · 1 feeder programs
30Interior Design$34,22729%
4Utah State University
Logan, UT Public · 1 feeder programs
20Interior Architecture59%92%
5Brigham Young University
Provo, UT Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
14Facilities Planning and Management$67,73781%$13,71268%
6Bridgerland Technical College
Logan, UT Public · 1 feeder programs
12Interior Design75%
7Utah Valley University
Orem, UT Public · 1 feeder programs
3Facilities Planning and Management45%

All 7 schools in Utah

Every school in Utah with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Utah that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Ensign CollegeSalt Lake CityPrivate not-for-profit451
Weber State UniversityOgdenPublic331
Salt Lake Community CollegeSalt Lake CityPublic301
Utah State UniversityLoganPublic201
Brigham Young UniversityProvoPrivate not-for-profit141
Bridgerland Technical CollegeLoganPublic121
Utah Valley UniversityOremPublic31

What interior designers earn in Utah

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Utah
$61,740
Mean annual
$66,290
Jobs in state
1,110
What the range looks like
10th pct$48,130Median$61,74090th pct$96,590
Versus the national median
-8.1%

U.S. median $67,190. Utah pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
1.39×

Concentrated here: Utah employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Metro areas in Utah

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT
$62,510median
570 jobs
Ogden, UT
$60,520median
90 jobs
St. George, UT
$59,130median
60 jobs
Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT
$59,170median
180 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+3.2%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
7,800
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
2,800
87,100 → 89,900
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Interior Designers page.

How to become a Interior Designer

Job zone 4 of 5 · SVP 7.0 to < 8.0
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Top skills

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The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Utah

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 7 majors mapped to Interior Designers7 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 04.0402Healthcare Environment Design/Architecture
  • 04.0501Interior Architecture
  • 19.0604Facilities Planning and Management
  • 19.0699Housing and Human Environments, Other
  • 19.0904Textile Science
  • 30.3701Design for Human Health
  • 50.0408Interior Design

Common questions

Answers for people weighing interior designers programs in Utah.

What degree do you need to become an Interior Designer?+

Bachelor's degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Interior Design, which awarded 120 degrees in Utah in 2024-25, 76.4% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming an Interior Designer?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 3 programs to this occupation. The largest are Design and Applied Arts, Interior Architecture, Housing and Human Environments. Together they graduate about 157 people a year in Utah.

How much do interior designers earn in Utah?+

The median is $61,740 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 8.1% below the U.S. median of $67,190. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for interior designers growing?+

BLS projects a +3.2% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 7,800 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Utah?+

7 institutions in Utah reported graduates from at least one of the 3 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do interior designers work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Designer, Interior Designer, Interior Design Consultant, Interior Design Coordinator among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 27-1025.

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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