Bachelor of Landscape Architecture - Creative Design

The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) degree is accredited by the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board (LAAB). The BLA degree meets the academic requirements for licensure in all fifty states. LAAB standards require that first-professional degree curricula must include the core knowledge skills and applications of landscape architecture: landscape architectural history, philosophy, theory, values, ethics, practice, planning, design, implementation, and management. The program is a site-based design discipline that also deals with regional and larger-scale environmental/social issues. The curriculum, centered on a studio-based design curriculum, integrates ecological and social factors into the design and planning process. Students take a series of lecture and studio design courses, beginning with an introduction to landscape design principles in the first year and culminating in an advanced research and studio design project in the graduating year. Courses include Site Analysis and Ecological Principles, Site Design Studio, Urban Design Studio, and Professional Practice, among others. Digital design studios allow the integration of computer-aided design, GIS, and other analytical and communication tools with fundamental design and drawing skills.

Landscape architects embrace all forms of creativity including earthworks, soundscapes, lighting design, metal fabricating, woodworking, stonework, sculpture, mosaics, murals and much more. Every object in the landscape has the potential for beauty when unlocked by a savvy designer, Students are exposed to a wide variety of materials and methods used in design, as well as their creative application as demonstrated in local examples such as Yard's Park urban waterfront in Washington, DC, and Pierce's Park in Inner Harbor Baltimore. Creatively designing with living nature, and with weathering processes, means designing with change so the work is evolving anew for many years into the future.

Official copy of your high school/college transcripts.
High school student or a student with fewer than 12 semester hours or 18 quarter hours of university-level credit beyond secondary school, should apply as a freshman applicant.
IELTS - 7.0
TOEFL - 95