Program Overview

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Overview

The Advanced Landscape Planning and Management MSc is an innovative one-year postgraduate programme. This course will provide students with the intellectual and practical skills required for effective landscape planning and management.

What You'll Learn

Our Advanced Landscape Planning and Management Master’s involves classroom-led and fieldwork-led learning. This course will help students develop and demonstrate the ability to:

• think critically about planning and management in relation to long-term stewardship of landscapes
• understand the complexities of landscape issues and opportunities, applying knowledge from across the curriculum
• devise effective planning and management solutions to landscape problems
• respond creatively to complex landscape planning and management briefs
• generate well-considered proposals that show understanding of context, scale and time
• evaluate materials, processes and techniques and integrate these into feasible strategies
• understand how landscape has been conceptualised and theorised throughout history
• evaluate the philosophies, ideologies and critical positions which underpin different approaches to landscape research
• engage with complex ideas and a range of stakeholders

Modules

Students will study modules on this course. A module is a unit of a course with its own approved aims and outcomes and assessment methods.

• Conceptualising Landscape: Project
• Design with Plants and Ecological Greenspace Management
• Landscape Planning and Management Dissertation
• Landscape Histories- Project
• Engagement with environment, landscape and planning
• Green Infrastructure, Landscape Planning & Nature Based Solutions
• Green Infrastructure, Landscape Planning and Nature Based Solutions (Project)
• Research Design
• Environmental Assessment

How You'll Learn

Delivery and teaching methods include:

• online and in-person lectures
• seminars
• workshops
• studios
• study sites and field trips (UK and International) Assessment methods include:
• Design or creative project
• Dissertation
• Essay
• Oral presentation
• Portfolio
• Report
• Reflective log
• Written examination

Your Development

Students will develop subject-specific professional and research skills, including:

• defining and critically analysing landscape problems, drawing on current research and knowledge
• collecting, synthesising and utilising evidence for effective and socio-ecologically-just landscape planning and management
• creating effective planning and management solutions to landscape problems
• articulating reasoned arguments, drawing on a range of information sources
• assessing the intersecting social and environmental complexities of landscape issues, constraints and opportunities
• ethical issues surrounding the creation, planning and management of landscapes
• high-level academic research skills in relation to landscape projects
• advanced research methods for understanding the needs of, and engaging communities Students will also develop specialist practical skills, including:
• conducting site planning and site assessments
• landscape management and green infrastructure planning and maintenance strategies
• site-led management and maintenance resolutions and their implementation
• contributing to detailed assessments such as environmental assessments
• applying policy documents, legislation and good practice for long-term landscape stewardship
• budgets and resource assessment
• critical approaches to the rationales and techniques applied to the preparation and deliverance of landscape planning and management solutions
• the ability to ‘read’ landscapes, past, present and future In addition, students will gain valuable transferable skills, including project management, presentation skills and communication with both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Your Future

This Master’s course will prepare students for an exciting career in landscape planning and landscape management. Students will be ready to pursue dynamic job roles in diverse fields, including:

• national parks
• coastlines
• heritage sites
• nature reserves
• environmental or forestry agencies
• wilding projects
• seascapes/water management Students will also be well placed to continue their studies at PhD level.

Quality and Ranking

• 42% of our research is classified as 4* world-leading research – Research Excellence Framework 2021
• 65% increase in research power since 2014 – Research Excellence Framework 2021
• Global Top 140 University - QS World University Rankings 2026
• Global Top 160 University - Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025
• Top 100 for Architecture/Built Environment - QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025
• Top 100 for Performing Arts - QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025
• Top 125 for Arts and Humanities – Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2025
• Top 25 in the UK and Top 100 in the world for sustainable development – Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2024

Facilities

During their studies, students will have access to the state-of-the-art facilities at the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape.

Fees and Funding

Tuition fees for 2026 entry (per year)

• Home students: £11,400
• International students: £26,500 Tuition fee increases: As a general principle, students should expect the tuition fee to increase in each subsequent academic year of their course, subject to government regulations on fee increases and in line with inflation.

Entry Requirements

The entrance requirements below apply to 2026 entry.

• A 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent, in a landscape discipline or related field.
• Landscape disciplines could include: landscape planning, landscape management, landscape architecture, landscape studies, landscape ecology, landscape sciences.
• Related fields include, but are not limited to: geography, planning, urban design, botany ecology, forestry, farming, rural studies, zoology, environmental sciences, geohumanities, anthropology, heritage studies, tourism studies.
• We will also consider applicants on an individual basis with non-standard qualifications, and those with at least five years relevant work experience.
• English Language requirements: IELTS, Pearson, Duolingo English Test, TOEFL, or other qualifications.

How to Apply

The course starts in September. There is no application closing date for this course. We may invite UK applicants to attend an interview. We suggest international students apply at least two months before the course starts. If you are an international student or a student from the EU, EEA or Switzerland and you need a visa to study in the UK, you must pay a deposit of £1,500 or submit an official letter of sponsorship. The deposit is payable after you receive an offer to study with us. The deposit is non-refundable, but we will deduct it from your tuition fees when you register.

Programme codes

• Full time: 12 months, Programme Code: 4151F

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