Sooooo I've actually just been doing general studies at a community college and I'm planning to do an interior design program I found at a DIFFERENT community college once I finish my AA since community college is free and I wanted to study interior design from the beginning.

It seems like the program I'm interested in would take up to 60 transfer credits from my two community college programs, but this college doesn't offer a lot of scholarships because it's a small college.

Now I've noticed a lot of my favorite designers have fine arts degrees or completely unrelated degrees.

Are my future clients going to be off put if I don't have a degree in interior design? Is a 1 year certificate program enough to learn the trade? I'm most interested in hospitality design.