The Master of Landscape Architecture at UNSW is a postgraduate degree that allows you to bring previous experience to launch a career shaping open spaces that benefit people and the planet.

As a Registered Landscape Architect, your professional practice will combine art and science to plan, design and manage landscapes that conserve and celebrate ecology and cultural values. You’ll be equipped to work with cities and communities around the world, designing open spaces in response to issues such as urbanisation, migration, sustainability and climate change.

UNSW’s is the longest established, accredited Landscape Architecture program in Australia. Through this studio-based degree, you’ll explore design principles, graphic techniques, ecological processes and human modification of the environment. 

Key features

The key features and subject areas in this degree will see you explore landscape architecture  through theory and practice, preparing you for diverse, future-focused careers. These include:

• Landscape technology
• Landscape systems & performance
• Advanced landscape theory & Research
• People, place and design
• Urban ecology and landscape design
• GIS and Urban Informatics
• Urban landscape and heritage
• Planting design at the landscape scale

Research project

In the sequence of Capstone studio courses, you’ll undertake an independent research-based design project, which allows you to deepen your expertise, adds to your professional portfolio, and empowers you to kick-start your career.

Why study this degree at UNSW?

• Benefit from studying the longest established, accredited Landscape Architecture program in Australia
• Become qualified to be a Registered Landscape Architect with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)
• Adobe Creative Cloud subscription included from the day you start your degree for the duration of your studies
• Increase your employability through an honours level outcome
• Benefit from strong industry links and partnerships
• Be supported by our diverse, interdisciplinary Arts, Design & Architecture community
• Study at a Built Environment School that ranks top 40 in the world and 4th in Australia (QS World University Rankings, 2023)
• Learn through research-informed teaching
• Prioritise career success – UNSW won the Australian Financial Review’s Most Employable Students Award in 2023.
• Access world class alumni connections
• Join a global top 20 university (QS World University Rankings, 2024)
• Join a community that’s part of the prestigious Group of Eight (Go8) universities