Program Overview

Landscape Architecture Program

The Landscape Architecture program is a Bachelor's degree offered by the Agrarian and Technological Institute. The program focuses on training students to become specialists in landscape architecture, with the ability to design and manage open green spaces in cities and other populated areas.

Mode of Study and Level

• Mode of study: Part-time
• Level of study: Bachelor
• Direction of preparation: Landscape Architecture

Training Period and Language

• Training period: 4 years and 6 months
• Language of study: Russian

Profession

A landscape architect is a specialist who can landscape any open green space. Landscape art involves not only park construction but also the formation of open spaces in cities and other populated areas based on a thorough study of the landscape. Graduates of this program will be able to design areas of a comfortable urban environment with the introduction of "green infrastructure" for favorable living conditions in cities.

Educational Process

The program consists of 240 credits and includes lectures, seminars, and lab works, as well as several types of internships. The training program includes basic and professional courses, including optional disciplines. Leading researchers, practitioners, representatives of large Russian and foreign landscape bureaus, and heads of government agencies are involved in teaching.

Practice

The main principle of the educational program is practice orientation. Students receive not only theoretical knowledge but also practical skills in landscape design, gardening art, monitoring the state and accounting of plantings, and managing systems of green areas in natural and urban landscapes. Students of the "Landscape Architecture" direction actively participate and become prize-winners in various Russian and international conferences, forums, festivals, round tables, professional competitions. Practice bases include:

• Sokolniki Culture and Leisure Park
• Sochi National Park
• Nikitsky Botanical Garden — National Scientific Center of the RAS (Republic of Crimea, Yalta)
• Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve
• State Russian Museum
• Wageningen University (Netherlands)
• Alpine Science Center (Italy)
• design institutes and workshops

Career

RUDN University Bachelor graduates work in the following organizations:

• forest parks
• design institutes and workshops
• building organizations
• management of landscape gardening
• committees for urban planning and protection of monuments, landscaping and road facilities, urban planning and architecture
• department of nature management and environmental protection