Landscape Architecture - MA
Birmingham City University
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This forward looking and innovative MA Landscape Architecture course offers you the opportunity to further your career as a professional landscape architect and give the first steps to become a Chartered Landscape Architect.The MA Landscape Architecture course provides you with opportunities to explore responses to climate change emergency and biodiversity loss, and help in planning and designing meaningful, fair and resilient landscapes, places and communities of the future. Exploring these ...Read more

This forward looking and innovative MA Landscape Architecture course offers you the opportunity to further your career as a professional landscape architect and give the first steps to become a Chartered Landscape Architect.The MA Landscape Architecture course provides you with opportunities to explore responses to climate change emergency and biodiversity loss, and help in planning and designing meaningful, fair and resilient landscapes, places and communities of the future. Exploring these themes and issues is central to our common future and our Landscape Architecture course is very well placed to build employability skills that will position you at the forefront of these subjects.The course stimulates a design studio culture and encourages high levels of research, design innovation, creativity and distinct ownership of ideas and concepts. We put an emphasis on contemporary practice and real-world projects aligned to develop the critical integration of theory and practice across scales, from landscape planning to master planning to detail design.Graduate jobs and links to industryWe have an established relationship with an extensive network of local, regional and national practices and employers. The reputation of the landscape architecture courses provides a head start for applicants.Our students enjoy excellent employment opportunities during and after completing the course. Recent graduates are working for an extensive range of practices, including: AHR Global, AECOM, Arup, Atkins Global, BMD Bradley Murphy Design, Camlins Associates, Capita, Define, Fira, FPCR, IDP, LDA Design, Land Use Consultants, Node Urban Design, Liz Lake Associates, Townscape, Pegasus Planning, WSP, Randall Thorp.There is a clear structure to achieving Chartership status of the Landscape Institute. Recently employed graduate members of the profession are on the ‘Pathway to Chartership. These are mentored roles in which ‘Associates are involved in site mapping and survey work, design development work and supporting the project team in all aspects of the design process.

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Eleanor
23 Oct 24

I’m a part-time masters student, which means I travel in from quite a distance. However, the uni has been very accommodating of this. The uni facilities are good but some of the..Read more

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Entry requirements

Applicants are normally expected to have a minimum of a 2:2 honours degree, or equivalent, in Landscape Architecture or Garden Design or overseas equivalent.

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£9,190 per year

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£18,600 per year

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Birmingham City University
4 - 6, Cardigan Street Birmingham England B4 7BD United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Birmingham Moor Street  0.4 miles away
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