Promising Landscape Architecture Programs

Graduate School
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<p>Dear readers,</p>

<p>I am now preparing to apply to graduate programs in landscape architecture. My end goal is to help design school campuses either in the US, or Asia. Do have any opinions on which masters of landscape architecture are the most promising, particularly for a career in school campus design?</p>

<p>Any input would be great!
Thanks immensely for your time and insight,
Cheers,</p>

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<p>I am currently considering masters of landscape arch. (MLA) programs at UTexas- Austin, University of Georgia, California State Polytechnic University (Pomona), UC- Berkeley or other California schools, as well as University of Hong Kong.</p>

<p>I am avoiding Michigan because their MLA program is in the school of natural resources, rather than architecture or planning,
I have also heard rumors of deteriorating quality at the UC’s particularly Berkeley,
So like I said, any and all input is welcome.
Thanks!</p>

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<p>I think Penn’s program is supposed to be good, or at least it was a few years ago. I also think of Berkeley as being really top-notch.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the tips, and info like <a href=“http://architecture.tulane.edu/news/PDF/Design-Intelligence-1109b.pdf[/url]”>http://architecture.tulane.edu/news/PDF/Design-Intelligence-1109b.pdf&lt;/a&gt;, archsoc.com, CLARB, asla.org, etc</p>

<p>A challenge is landscape architecture has such a wide scope, I am looking specifically for MLA programs known to produce great campus/educational environment designers… I have tried polling some recruiters but haven’t heard much yet.
Thanks again in advance for any input!</p>

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<p>I highly doubt anyone gets that specific as to have an emphasis on campus landscape architecture. But who knows? Perhaps the better way to approach this is to work backwards. Find out who did the landscape architecture for various campuses that had recent large projects and talk to them. Find out where they went to school and what they would recommend.</p>

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<p>One of my old roommates is enrolled at the program at UW-Madison, which he claimed to be one of the better ones in the nation.</p>

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<p>Madison’s great, and I love lake Menona (spelling?) in the summer, but I don’t think I can handle the winters</p>

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<p>I was actually at Madison for a year (grad school) and left. Mostly it was that I didn’t like the program there for what I wanted, but the winter was brutal and I hated it. I went back to the south.</p>

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<p>Here are the 2009 rankings (as listed on the Kansas State University website, I’m assuming from our profit-minded friends, DI; I’ve posted since the link is blocked in some places):</p>

<p>Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

  1. University of Georgia
  2. Kansas State University
  3. Louisiana State University
  4. Pennsylvania State University
  5. Cornell University
  6. Texas A&M University
  7. Purdue University
  8. Ball State University
  9. Iowa State University
  10. California Polytechnic State
    University, San Luis Obispo
  11. University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign
  12. Clemson University
  13. Ohio State University
  14. University of Florida
  15. University of Rhode Island</p>

<p>Master of Landscape Architecture

  1. Harvard University
  2. University of Georgia
  3. Louisiana State University
  4. Texas A&M University
  5. Ball State University
  6. Cornell University
  7. University of Virginia
  8. Kansas State University
  9. University of California at Berkeley
  10. University of Michigan
  11. University of Pennsylvania
  12. University of Texas at Austin
  13. University of Illinois
    at Urbana-Champaign
  14. Auburn University
  15. North Carolina State University
  16. Rhode Island School of Design</p>

<p>Sorry I don’t have any specific criteria upon which these are based; refer to at your own risk.</p>