Architecture: Landscape and Urban Design MA at University of Portsmouth

About

Curious about landscape, urbanism, and working with nature as a primary design tool? Our MA Architecture: Landscape and Urban Design Master's is the ideal step to furthering your postgraduate study and understanding how landscape and urbanism relate to architecture, nature, and the scientific and human dimensions of our built and unbuilt environments.

Besides examining the theoretical and practical frameworks for engaging with landscapes at the territorial, urban, and architectural scales, you'll also be able to take part in current debates involving landscape, architecture, urban design, climate change, and sustainability.

Learn how to preserve and/or transform landscapes based on their geographical, geological, and morphological components, and how to design proposals that interact with both natural and artificial environments to create ecosystems. In your design, you'll explore and use notions like sustainability, green infrastructure, renaturing cities, biodiversity, environmental design, and ecosystem services.

With this Landscape and Urban Design Master's degree, you’ll gain a deep understanding of the tangible and intangible values of landscape, including its natural, historical, cultural, and social dimensions. You'll graduate with valuable insight into, and experience of, sustainable landscape architecture and urban design, enabling you to reshape societies for the better in your future career.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Entry requirements

To do this degree, you need to apply for the MA Architecture course. This is because it's a ‘pathway’ degree.

You’ll study Architecture in depth and choose required Landscape and Urban Design modules. You’ll graduate with an MA Architecture: Landscape and Urban Design degree when you finish the course.

These are the entry requirements for the MA Architecture course.

January 2026 start

A good honours degree in a relevant subject, such as

Architecture
Interior Architecture
Landscape Architecture
Urban Design
Civil Engineering
Building Surveying
Geography
Spatial Practices
Fine Art
Other design-related subject

Please get in touch if you're not sure if your undergraduate subject applies to this degree.

Equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications will also be considered, such as previous study, employment, voluntary work and training courses, including courses and qualifications you didn't complete. Learn more about our Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

If you don't have relevant qualifications and/or experience, you'll need to provide a portfolio to support your application.

If you're applying as an international student with a non-UK degree, you’ll need to show you meet the UK entry requirements listed above.

To find out if your non-UK degree or other qualification is accepted, please visit our page for your country and view the UK equivalent of your qualification.

English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 (or equivalent) with no component score below 6.0.

You do not need an IELTS or equivalent certification if:

you have a UK degree
you have a degree from a majority English-speaking country (not taught by Distance Learning)
you are a national of a majority English-speaking country

Degrees taught solely in English from non-majority English-speaking countries will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Find out more about our English language requirements.

If you do not meet the English language requirements yet, you can achieve the level you need by successfully completing a pre-sessional English programme before you start your course.

If you don't have relevant qualifications and/or experience, you'll need to provide a portfolio to support your application.

For more information on putting together a portfolio, read our MA Architecture portfolio guide.

September 2026 / January 2027 start

Qualifications or experience

A minimum of a second-class honours degree in a relevant subject such as:

Architecture
Interior Architecture
Landscape Architecture
Urban Design
Civil Engineering
Building Surveying
Geography
Spatial Practice
History
Fine Art

Or a design-related subject, or equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications. An online portfolio submission may be required as part of the selection process.

Please get in touch if you're not sure if your undergraduate subject is relevant to this degree.

Equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications will also be considered, such as previous study, employment, voluntary work and training courses, including courses and qualifications you didn't complete. Learn more about our Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

If you're applying as an international student with a non-UK degree, you’ll need to show you meet the UK entry requirements listed above.

To find out if your non-UK degree or other qualification is accepted, please visit our page for your country and view the UK equivalent of your qualification.

English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 5.5.

You do not need an IELTS or equivalent certification if:

you have a UK degree
you have a degree from a majority English speaking country (not taught by Distance Learning)
you are a national of a majority English speaking country

Degrees taught solely in English from non-majority English speaking countries will be considered on a case by case basis. Find out more about our English language requirements.

If you do not meet the English language requirements yet, you can achieve the level you need by successfully completing a pre-sessional English programme before you start your course.

Applicants without relevant qualifications will be requested to provide a portfolio to support their application.

To find out how to put together a portfolio, read our MA Architecture portfolio guide.

Fee Information

Tuition Fee

GBP 17,200

Application Fee

GBP

Architecture: Landscape and Urban Design MA

University of Portsmouth

University of Portsmouth

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