Landscape Architecture
University of Sheffield
UCAS Code: K3K4 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Sheffield
UCAS Code: K3K4 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
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Award of Access to HE Diploma in a relevant subject, with 45 credits at Level 3, including 30 at Distinction and 15 at Merit
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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Scottish Higher
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (last awarded Summer 2024)
+ AB at A Level
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About this course
Landscape architecture is the planning, design and management of spaces for nature and people. This course aims to train landscape architects who understand planning and how design proposals affect the environment. If you enjoy geography, politics, economics or history you will appreciate the scope and challenge of this course.
**This three-year undergraduate degree offers you a broad training in landscape architecture - the planning, design and management of urban and rural landscapes - with a special focus on planning.**
You’ll study a wide range of landscape theories and creative techniques, working at scales covering the smallest garden, to large-scale urban developments and rewilded country estates, while getting to grips with the social aspects of design.
You’ll learn about how your design impacts local residents and why it matters whose voices are heard in the consultation process.
You will be supported by our world-renowned researchers and teachers as you develop to become a skilled designer, with a thorough understanding of urban design theory, planning and practice.
If you enjoy subjects like geography, politics and history and want to learn about the wider context in which your design takes place, this could be the course for you.
At the end of your third year, you can choose whether to continue to train as a professional landscape architect, or to apply your new skills in other directions.
Graduates of this course wishing to pursue Chartership must complete an independent year in practice, followed by a masters in Professional Landscape Architecture.
**Accreditation allows graduates to pursue their professional qualification in landscape architecture and become a licentiate Member of the Landscape Institute, ready to start their Pathway to Chartership and become a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI).**
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University of Sheffield
School of Architecture and Landscape (Landscape)
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If you want to design outdoor features, this is the degree for you. Prospects for landscape design grads have improved a lot of late and employment rates and salaries are better than the average. Easily the most common job for graduates from this discipline is as landscape architects, with architectural technicians and landscape gardeners also important options. Graduates from this degree are a lot more likely than the average to be self-employed so this also suits people with an independent streak.
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