Bachelor programme in Landscape Architecture

Sweden

In one of Europe’s largest campuses for education in Landscape Design, Landscape Planning and Landscape Management and Construction, this master’s programme gives you a possibility to in-depth studies in varied areas of Landscape Architecture.

The campus of SLU Alnarp is located in the Öresund region close to Malmö and Copenhagen in one of the most vital regions of northern Europe with four Universities nearby. You will meet and work with Swedish and other international students in the courses that are all in English.

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)

The programme and individual courses deal with contemporary and real life landscape planning, mangement and design challenges at various geofraphical scales, with various specialization foci and degrees of complexity. The tasks are numerous, and vary from detail design of contruction sites, urban plazas and parks to the management of regional planning, and green spaces.

Agricultural University of Iceland (LBHI)

Estonian University of Life Sciences 

The curriculum builds on the level of achievement expected at bachelor level with in depth studies of a range of more specialised subjects covering both practical and theoretical fields, including ones which have special aspects suitable for study in Estonia.

Erasmus University College Brussels

Erasmus University College Brussels has more than 5000 students and consists of six departments with about 20 areas of study. The teaching language is Dutch.

Read more about their modules in English for exchange students: "Bachelor Landscape and garden Architecture."

École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles

France

The university is renowned as one of Europe’s leading institutions within landscape architecture due to its project-oriented teaching approach, among other things. Exchange students are able to participate in ordinary architecture or urbanism classes which are conducted in French. Exchange students who have completed at least three years of study are able to participate in a Diploma programme lasting one year (or at least one autumn term). 

Spring application deadline only (March 1) for studies in the autumn and spring of the following academic year.

Technische Universität Dresden

Germany

A renowned university within landscape architecture. The MSc programme is offered in German and exchange students are offered language courses.

Technische Universität, Berlin 

Leibniz Universität Hannover

The Faculty of Life Sciences has a close partnership in horticulture with the university. It has a campus with many international students and also offers an English-language MSc programme in International Horticulture. There is also a wide range of courses in German with up to 10 specialisations in floriculture, horticultural economics and tree nursery science.

Vienna University of Technology, TU Wien

Austria

TU Vienna looks back on a long tradition at the leading edge of scientific research and education. The TU Vienna places great emphasis on the inclusion of students in research programmes (researchbased teaching), considering this an important criterion encouraging new generations of scientists.

Universität für Bodenkultur Wien 

University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences

ELLS partner

Austria

The core of this program is landscaping of urban and rural settings, in the context of interactions with humans. The program teaches skills useful in finding creative and elegant solutions to shaping the landscape and thus our habitat in a sustainable manner. The curriculum is interdisciplinary, expanding career prospects to fields as diverse as working in planning offices, in leading positions in gardening and landscaping, in the public sector and NGOs.

Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) 

One of six European universities that together with the Faculty of Life Sciences make up the Euroleague for Life Sciences network.

The specilisation focuses on Landscape Architecture as a strategic activity. Design is executed in am integrative way though interrelating spatial scales and students working together in an interdisciplinary context. Courses focus on working as a professional, reflecting on the field of landscape architecture and participating in academic debate, across disciplinary borders.

Spring application deadline only (March 1) for studies in the autumn and spring of the following academic year.

Amsterdam Academy of Architecture 

The course in Landscape Architecture is aimed at the acquisition of knowledge, insight and skills that make it possible to come up with design solutions in order to reconcile new artefacts – water, infrastructure, buildings or vegetation – with the existing qualities and potential of the natural and historical environment.

Università degli Studi di Genova

Leeds Metropolitan University 

Offers a good and varied range of courses in landscape architecture, including Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Garden Art and Design, Environmental Design, Design and Design Culture. Particularly the courses in Urban Design are recommended.

United Kingdom

University of Idaho 

 USA

The University’s location offers a unique bioregional setting to study landscape architecture. Here, you gain experience developing integrated design solutions to preserve and enhance diverse rural and urban landscapes, and you graduate with a distinctive professional skill set that positions you for success in the global landscape architecture community.

Washington State University 

The Landscape Architecture program offer students the opportunity to work on a progression of projects that express personal solutions and help them learn to interact with clients in a professional manner while developing practical applications of landscape construction, facilities design, social sciences, computer technology, plant science, and land-use analysis.

University of Guelph 

University of Melbourne 

Australia

Landscape Architecture at Melbourne University is underpinned by a strong grounding in ecology and urbanism. These strengths are paralleled by a comprehensive history and theory stream encompassing contemporary landscape architecture and urban design theory, cross cultural perspectives of space and cities and the history of the landscape architecture and architectural history. Major subjects are supplemented by electives from allied disciplines.

University of Western Australia, Perth 

Australia

Landscape architects work at a variety of scales, ranging from major regional projects to urban developments which include industrial, commercial, institutional, recreational and residential environments.

The scope of their work includes all aspects of landscape and land use planning, design and management, the restoration and rehabilitation of disturbed environments, the identification and assessment of environmental and social impacts associated with a variety of public and private developments.

University of Sydney 

Australia

The Faculty of Architecture, Design and planning  is recognised for excellence in the field of architectural history and theory with expertise in the fields of East Asia, Japan, China, Korea and Australian architecture. 

Lincoln has gained an international reputation for excellence in Landscape Architecture and is the only university offering a Bachelor in Landscape Architecture (BLA) degree in the South Island. 

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Landscape Architecture Programme at Lincoln University.