Program Overview

Landscape Architecture Major

The Landscape Architecture Major is a program that engages students in shaping the environmental and cultural landscape through planning and design to improve quality of life. This program teaches the artful synthesis of social and ecological processes related to planning, designing, building, and managing regenerative communities. Students will experience an immersive, intense, and rewarding education structured around a studio environment that promotes critical thinking and creative problem solving.

Landscape Architecture

The BLA program is the only LAAB accredited bachelor of landscape architecture program in the three-state region of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It prepares students to plan and design environmental and cultural landscapes that improve quality of life while sustaining our ecosystems.

Career Opportunities

• Environmental specialistmedian annual salary of $71,130
• Land surveyormedian annual salary of $51,020
• Landscape architectmedian annual salary of $65,760
• Urban and regional plannermedian annual salary of $73,050

Curriculum

The program's curriculum is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in landscape architecture, including the principles of planning, designing, building, and managing regenerative communities.