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Landscape architecture is a profession that combines art, science, technology, and experiential knowledge for creative place-keeping and making, preserving diverse cultures, and building stewardship of people and the environment. Participate in service-learning projects that address global concerns while working with local communities to create livable, beloved cities and landscapes.

The MLA program is designed to enable students to work with communities in planning and design projects for improving the ecological and social health of their built environments, with emphasis on sustainable environments for community resilience. ASU's Master of Landscape Architecture program provides students with the ecological literacy and fluency to lead socially just urban transformations in areas of greening, decolonizing and healing places. These urban transformations are urgently needed to build better and more just neighborhoods, cities and regions.

The curriculum in this accredited degree program is designed to prepare future leaders in landscape architecture practice and for advanced study at the doctoral level. In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. This Master of Landscape Architecture degree is qualified as a STEM-designated degree program in the U.S. education designation.

There are three program paths of study available in this master's degree program:

• a 2-year program for applicants who have completed the four-year or five-year bachelor's degree in landscape architecture
• a 2-plus program (two years plus one spring) for applicants with an undergraduate degree in architecture, planning, urban design, urban planning, environmental design or a related design field
• a 3-year program for applicants with an undergraduate degree in a discipline or field other than landscape architecture or a related design field

Career Opportunities

Alumni of this program have found careers with nationally recognized landscape architects in multinational firms, within public municipalities and agencies in the United States and abroad, and with urban greening nonprofit, community development and environmental justice organizations.