This is a design based career conversion/ development course at Masters level, for anyone who has a passion for landscape architecture, but a first degree in any other subject.  

It brings together ‘conversion’ modules of the postgraduate diploma, with modules from the MA taken by those holding an undergraduate landscape degree, combined into ‘straight through’ programme for direct entry to the UK profession at Licentiate status.

It is fully accredited by the Landscape Institute.

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This course covers:

• design modules, where you lead the landscape design process, using a range of drawing and modelling techniques and softwares, taught in studio; and
• theory/ professional practice, where we explore the issues affecting our environment, visit, study, and discuss professional landscape architecture.

This is a two year programme (full time) and the fee varies each year. You may also consider applying for the postgraduate diploma in Landscape Architecture.

At UEL your interests and passions count. We provide an inspiring, creative setting where you can gain the skills and understanding that will facilitate self-expression, and inform your future direction in the profession.

We engage with live sites and clients, and foster connections with visiting professionals. All staff continue in professional practice, and bring relevant industry knowledge as well as extensive academic teaching experience to design studio, seminars, tutorials, field visits and lectures.

The MA in Professional Landscape Architecture (Conversion) offers flexibility, opportunities for collaborative project work, an active faculty and diverse student body. We offer set topics and options, and projects tailored at a pace in keeping with your developing skills, allowing you to choose your own path within the wide scope of professional landscape architecture.

You will also benefit from shadowing placements within leading studios in London.

Who will teach on this course

Bridget Snaith

The teaching team includes qualified academics, practitioners and industry experts as guest speakers. Full details of the academics will be provided in the student handbook and module guides.

UEL’s professional landscape architecture programmes build your skills for a future career in landscape architecture in the context of key issues in contemporary life – city expansion, climate emergency, food security, diversity, inequality, wellbeing. We challenge you to consider your understanding of what landscape is about, what it can and should do.

You’ll learn through design studio, site visits, and by interaction with professionals and academics across spatial and environmental disciplines, as well as getting hands on, with the practicalities of building now, for existing needs with real clients and communities.

We support you to develop a personal attitude to landscape design, to express yourself spatially, to investigate ideas with passion and commitment. There are options to work with UEL's Sustainability Research Institute and other built environment faculty, to choose your path into diverse landscape careers.

Our team are here to support you and help make the relevant industry links.

Landscape architects are in demand nationally and internationally. There is a high industry employment rate. Our graduates perform well within the field, achieving recognition and industry awards, and 100% from our Conversion MA have found employment in practice and in senior research or policy roles, including many who have not come from an art or design undergraduate programme. Our School has links with a range of professional practices, and will give you invaluable experience of working collaboratively with other disciplines, on live projects and with professionals in a practice setting.

Our Masters in Professional Landscape Architecture (Conversion) will set you on the path to a rewarding and exciting career in landscape architecture.

All of our postgraduate landscape courses have full accreditation from the Landscape Institute and provide necessary qualification to allow registration on the Landscape Institute’s Pathway to Chartership.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.