Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA/First Professional)

The Master of Landscape Architecture Program teaches students to design land and land-based practices that advance environmental and social justice in a time of climate and public change.
Students earning an MLA degree at Pratt are taught to embrace an inclusive approach to design that bridges culture and nature, ecology and policy, living and built environments. With so many challenges at hand, and underfoot, we prioritize collaborative and team-based learning, articulating changes between large scale systems, expansive historical precedents, evolutionary processes, and individual organisms. Landscape Architecture is a discipline, a profession, and a practice that informs the environment at every scale. We celebrate this legacy by imagining global education as a collaboration with the soils, plants and waters that sustain species.

The MLA is three years in duration. Applicants must have received a bachelor's degree from an institution in the U.S. that is accredited by a recognized regional association or have been awarded the equivalent of the bachelor's degree from an international institution of acceptable standards. Applicants with work experience and professional degrees in architecture, planning, environmental studies, landscape architecture, design, botany, biology, engineering, etc, are encouraged. Applicants must present a portfolio providing evidence of their interest in landscape architecture or their visual sensibility through the media of their choicephotography, drawing, essays, videos, etc. Portfolios must be submitted on-line at pratt.slideroom.com. The GRE is not required. The statement of purpose should be no more than 500 words. Two letters of recommendation are required. A TOEFL of 79 (internet and home test), TOEFL ITP Plus for China of 550, IELTS of 6.5, Cambridge English score of 176, or PTE of 53 is required for international students.