This semester, we are pleased to share highlights from our award-winning Interior Design (ID) program at Gibbs College of Architecture (GCA). You can look forward to learning about events and opportunities, student and alumni highlights, research initiatives, and more.
Interior Design Program Overview
The mission of the ID program is to provide professional undergraduate and graduate education in interior design within a collaborative, multidisciplinary learning environment. The disciplinary perspectives share a common pedagogy with GCA’s other divisions, engaging high tech knowledge with high touch skills to prepare new graduates to solve global problems facing the interior design profession.
Job Opportunities
OU’s ID program ranks seventh nationally in the category of “Most Hired From.” Interior design graduates can choose from a variety of career paths upon graduation, including:
Excellent Professional Development
ID students have many opportunities to develop their professional skill sets and become successful alumni. Over the summer, ID students held internships around the country. Recently, Ryan McNitt interned with GFF in Dallas.
One recent ID alumnus, Khoi Hoang, is now a Senior Designer for Gensler. He says that studying at OU gave him a “competitive edge in the workplace.”
Engaging the Community
This semester, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students are all tasked with community engagement projects. Most recently, 3rd year ID students traveled to Woodward, Oklahoma to tour the Woodward Theater and later presented their project proposals to the owners of the theater.
Award-Winning Work
Our students are regularly recognized in student competitions, including the:
Events and Opportunities
Over the course of the fall 2019 semester, the ID division is excited to host many events on and off campus. The fall and spring career fairs are excellent networking opportunities for current students looking for future employment upon graduation, with about 40 companies present at each of these events.
Telesis, a journal produced by students in the University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, has earned first place in the 2026 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals for its seventh volume, “Unfold.” This marks the fourth time the publication has earned recognition for excellence in student architectural journalism. It shares the honor with student journals from Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Cal Poly.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture congratulates Thinh "Henry" Duong, a master's student in the Division of Interior Design, for earning first place in the 2026 Robert Bruce Thompson Annual Student Light Fixture Design Competition.
Gibbs College of Architecture Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) Director and Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design (PLAD) faculty member Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., recently published a new book, Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum.
