240-credit MLA programme

• You will need to have achieved  a minimum of 2nd class division 1 honours, or average of 70% in your 300 level or higher courses and in your final year overall
• You will need to submit a portfolio demonstrating design-related skills and creativity. It can contain landscape architecture drawings, representational drawings, paintings, photography or technical drawings. It can also include drawings that demonstrate computer graphic skills
• You will need to show basic computer graphic skills in Vectorworks or AutoCAD. This can be either via your portfolio or with a certificate of completion of an online course
• If English isn’t your first language, other entry requirements will apply. Learn more about the English language requirements.

120-credit MLA programme

• BLA graduates with first class or second-class division one Honours are eligible for direct entry to the MLA
• If English isn’t your first language, other entry requirements will apply. Learn more about the English language requirements.

What's it going to cost?

The Master of Landscape Architecture (Taught) is covered by our fee waiver. If you're a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, you may be able to study this programme for free. Learn more here. 

If you are an international student, see our list of International Fees. 

240-credit MLA programme

• Semester 1 (late February)
• Semester 2 (mid-July)

120-credit MLA programme

• Semester 1 (late February)
• Semester 2 (mid-July)

Graduate Attributes refer to the knowledge, skills, and values that you gain from completing your qualification. These high-level qualities will prepare you for career success, further study or research and making a valuable contribution to society in your chosen field.

Knowledge

• Explain how environmental cultural and socio-economic systems and processes including landscape planning, conservation, and management shape landscapes such as urban, rural, riparian, and montane landscapes at various levels.
• Describe the landscape dimensions of sustainability, human health and wellbeing.
• Describe how different types and historical examples of designed landscape have been created, and of the cultural meanings they express.
• Describe their design process and evaluate frameworks for landscape assessment and design through an awareness of place.
• Discuss theoretical Māori and indigenous concepts and applied approaches to design.
• Describe and identify a basic range of plant materials, their environmental requirements and tolerances, and common plant production techniques.
• Discuss theoretical, professional and ethical concepts, methods and policies underlying the practice of landscape architecture.

Skills

• Apply methods of inventory and analysis, design, assessment, and landscape planning.
• Express critical thinking through design.
• Locate, evaluate, synthesise, and use information from a range of sources to enable evidence-based design.
• Apply a range of business and managerial skills required in landscape practice, including efficient and effective personal time management and project management skills.
• Use a range of personal attributes including adaptability and an ability to learn and be able to transfer problems solving skills across a range of projects and scales.
• Communicate effectively in speech, graphics and writing to specific audiences, across a range of media.
• Engage in effective working relationships with a wide range of people and communities.
• Use basis office applications, including graphic, communication, and CAD software, in landscape architectural applications.
• Undertake design practice within a public policy context and under the statutory and institutional processes for managing landscape change at a range of scales.
• Manipulate surfaces using basic site engineering techniques relating to stormwater management and changes in level.
• Use natural and manufactured landscape materials in creative and practical design responses and specify them appropriately to facilitate landscape implementation.
• Apply a practical understanding of the relationships between design, planning and management when working with plant communities and associations.
• Draft specifications and manage contract administration for project implementation.
• Scholarly research methods, skills and report writing.

Values

• Express familiarity with the diversity of practice of landscape architecture including the need to commit to professional ethics, codes of conduct, protocols and procedures.
• Be open and sensitive to people from a wide range of backgrounds and communities.
• Express a commitment to landscape sustainability.
• Recognise Māori cultural values and related design practice.