Courses

Our undergraduate courses are unique in combining a broad training in landscape architecture with specialist modules in ecology and planning.

Landscape Architecture undergraduate work
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Our undergraduate courses are integrated masters programmes. You will spend three years studying landscape architecture to gain a BA or BSc degree.

If you decide to continue your training in landscape architecture you will work in a practice for your fourth year before returning for the fifth year MLA.

This also gives Licentiate status, or license-holder, at the Landscape Institute.

Single honours courses

Undergraduate

Landscape Architecture BA

The aim of this course is to train landscape architects who understand planning and how design proposals affect the environment. You'll study urban theory, planning and practice, and the complex relationship between people and the environment.

  • Start: September 2021
  • Duration: 3 years
  • UCAS code: K3K4
Undergraduate

Landscape Architecture BSc

This course aims to educate landscape architects who have a more in-depth understanding of ecology and habitat creation. If you enjoy subjects related to biology or environmental sciences, or have a keen interest in the natural world, this course will equip you to combine a more detailed appreciation of ecological processes and how they work within the designed landscape.

  • Start: September 2021
  • Duration: 3 years
  • UCAS code: KC39

Dual honours courses

We also offer, in partnership with the School of Architecture, the only fully accredited dual degree in Architecture and Landscape in the UK.

Undergraduate

Architecture and Landscape BA

This course offers a unique opportunity to gain a professional qualification from the RIBA and the Landscape Institute. It includes core modules from architecture and landscape and specialist modules that address our principle aim: the integration of architecture and landscape design.

  • Start: September 2021
  • Duration: 3 years
  • UCAS code: KK13

Foundation year

We also offer a degree in Landscape Architecture with a Foundation Year BA, in partnership with the Department for Lifelong Learning, specially designed for mature learners who have been out of formal education for an extended period of time.

Undergraduate

Landscape Architecture with Foundation Year BA

The foundation year of this programme provides students with non-standard entry qualifications a thorough and supportive academic preparation for successful degree level study in the Department of Landscape Architecture.

  • Start: September 2021
  • Duration: 4 years
  • UCAS code: K3K5

Study abroad

International study

Landscape students can only go abroad for one semester; the first semester of the third or fifth year.

Study abroad partner universities

What our students say

Abel McLinden

You can come at Landscape Architecture from so many angles; that's what makes it such an interesting profession

Abel McLinden Landscape Architecture BSc

Abel was torn between studying Geography or Architecture at university. He found Landscape Architecture to be the perfect middle ground.

Amy Lagnado

You feel like you can have a lasting impact on an area and the people who live there

Amy Lagnado Landscape Architecture BA

Amy didn't see herself as a creative person, but her degree taught her that everyone has an artistic streak in them.
Martin Lee

The Arts Tower studio gives a real buzz to the course

Martin Lee Landscape Architecture BA, MLA

In school, Martin was always encouraged to push and pursue creative boundaries. While studying at Sheffield, he has gained invaluable experience of sharing his own ideas with clients and staff.

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