Program Overview

Landscape Architecture MA

Course Overview

The Landscape Architecture MA course is designed to develop and refine vital skills and experience, establishing a long-term career in an exciting profession. The world of landscape architecture encompasses many skills and environments. On this course, you'll benefit from professional links to industry, an emphasis on sustainability, a wide range of client projects, and proactive teaching staff with extensive professional practice experience.

Study Style

Your learning will take place in a studio-based environment, through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, and student-led research. Teaching techniques combine the practice and philosophy of landscape architecture with a focus on innovation, creativity, personal development, expression, professionalism, and sustainability.

Modules

• Landscape Professional Practice (AD7601)
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 36
  • Independent Learning Hours: 114
  • Assessment: 100% Assignment: Individual: 3500 word equivalent
• Landscape Design Studio (AD7602)
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 60
  • Independent Learning Hours: 240
  • Assessment: 50% Portfolio: Individual: 3500 word equivalent, 50% Portfolio: Individual: 3500 word equivalent
• Landscape Planning Studio (AD7604)
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 60
  • Independent Learning Hours: 240
  • Assessment: 50% Portfolio: Individual: 3500 word equivalent, 50% Portfolio: Individual: 3500 word equivalent
• Ecological Landscape Design (AD7610)
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 30
  • Independent Learning Hours: 120
  • Assessment: 100% Portfolio: Individual: 3500 words
• Research Methods for Built Environment (AD7670)
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 24
  • Independent Learning Hours: 126
  • Assessment: 100% Assignment: Individual: 3500 words equivalent
• Our Urban Futures (AD7677)
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 36
  • Independent Learning Hours: 114
  • Assessment: 100% Assignment: Individual: 3500 words or equivalent

Optional Modules

• Masters Dissertation or Major Project (AD7600)
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 10
  • Independent Learning Hours: 590
  • Assessment: 80% Dissertation / Major Project: 15000 words, 20% Presentation: Individual: 3000 words or 30 minutes equivalent
• Investigative Design Dissertation (AD7631)
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 5
  • Independent Learning Hours: 295
  • Assessment: 100% Dissertation / Major Project: Maximum 9000 words
• Applied Conservation (NS7914)
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 24
  • Independent Learning Hours: 126
  • Assessment: 100% Assignment: Individual: 4000 words or equivalent
• Environmental Governance and Decision Making (NS7916)
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 36
  • Independent Learning Hours: 114
  • Assessment: 35% Assignment: Individual: 1500 words, 65% Assignment: Individual: 2500 words
• Fundamentals of Conservation GIS (NS7930)
  • Assessment: 100% Portfolio: Individual: 4000 Words

Entry Requirements

• Typical Offers: At least a 2.2 honours degree or equivalent in landscape architecture or landscape design (for direct entry onto the MA, or an undergraduate degree in any field of 2:2 or above for the conversion MA)
• Interview (required): Applicants for this course will be invited to attend an interview.
• Essential portfolio: A portfolio of work is essential
• IELTS 6.0: EU and international students need IELTS 6.0 overall (no less than 5.5 in writing and in any other band) or equivalent.

Fees and Costs

• Start date | Location | Course code | Fee (UK) | Total fee | Fee (international) | Total fee
  • Sep 2025 | Francis Close Hall, Cheltenham | — | £8,475 | £17,950
  • Sep 2026 | Francis Close Hall, Cheltenham | — | TBC | TBC

Careers

Graduate ready to launch into a range of exciting careers in landscape architecture. Discover a range of opportunities to work in national parks, city layouts, world heritage sites, school playground design, and other design roles across the private, public, and charity sector.

Teaching Staff

• Bill Burford: Academic Course Leader for Landscape Architecture

Industry Connections

Benefit from our well-established industry connections that will put you on a pathway for a rewarding career, whether in the public or private sectors, or running your own business. You will work on live briefs for real clients, putting your skills into practice from day one.

Accreditation

Learn on the UK’s longest running landscape architecture course. This Master’s Degree is fully accredited by the Royal Charted Landscape Institute (LI) and also has International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) recognition.