Thinking about a career change to Interior Design and would love some advice.

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July 3,2023 at 1:06PM UTC

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Thinking about a career change to Interior Design and would love some advice.

I have been exploring some educational options and the colleges offering CIDA or NCIDQ accreditation are so expensive and honestly too time consuming to accompany my current full time job. Does anyone know if the RIDQC certification is respected in the industry? Is the New York Institute of Art & Design a decent school?

I love that it has a go at your own pace program and it’s affordable but would I be doing my future career a disservice?

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AnonymousJuly 4,2023 at 12:55AM UTC
Not really the advice I was asking for but thanks.
AnonymousJuly 10,2023 at 5:42PM UTC
Why not contact the https://www.asid.org/ or https://www.aaonetwork.org/ or review folks on LI that are ones whose design sensibility you admire? those will net you some real advice about where you should focus your training for a long fruitful career in their industry.
AnonymousJuly 11,2023 at 12:32PM UTC
If you want to eventually obtain your NCIDQ you’ll need to attend a CIDA accredited college program. NCIDQ certification is highly valued for commercial interior design practice and can only be achieved after you graduate and work approximately two to three years under the guidance of other NCIDQ registered interior designers. NCIDQ is not as heavily required for residential interior design. Any CIDA accredited program is worthy but you’ll need to get involved with the student chapters of ASID and IIDA to start networking early. The industry is driven heavily in networking. It’s an amazing industry and can be a very personally fulfilling career. Best of luck to you!
solya ninkaMarch 14,2024 at 8:50AM UTC
And I have no idea, because it takes a long time to become a professional. And there are times when you need to do something quickly, it's best to turn to professionals. So when I needed to make a 3D design, I turned to 3D rendering services https://render-vision.com/ . It was necessary in order to design my new ideas in interior design.
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