Landscape architecture is an environmental design discipline. In our professional degree program, students learn to be effective designers through hands-on engagement in design process.  Students in our program learn how to change the world by re-imagining and re-shaping the landscape to enhance its artistic and functional dimensions, its ecological health, its cultural significance, and its social relevance. Students gain strong communication skills, a working knowledge of plants and construction, and an understanding of the way natural, social and cultural systems influence design. The program prepares individuals to enter the landscape architecture profession in private firms and nonprofit organizations as well as local, state and federal agencies.

 

Professional degrees include an accredited professional five-year bachelor of landscape architecture (BLA) and a two-year master of landscape architecture (MLA). Students who hold an undergraduate degree in another discipline may take advantage of a special BLA/MLA program.