Landscape Architecture MLA (LI accredited)

Typical offer

The minimum entry qualifications for the programme are:

• A 2:2 or above honours degree.
• And/or professional experience and a qualification in a related discipline such as Architecture, Spatial Design, Engineering, Ecology, or Geography.
• Applicants with academic qualifications in other subjects, or relevant work experience, will be considered on an individual basis.

Applications are considered initially on the basis of the information in the application forms including academic and employer references and a portfolio of evidence of personal study or a professional portfolio.

Additional requirements

In your portfolio we would like to see a collection of work that illustrates your range of skills and expresses your sensibilities. We will be looking for evidence of the following:

• Your ability to question the world around you: shown through your critical exploration of ideas, work in progress, sketchbooks, or experiments
• Your curiosity: by focusing on the topics that you are most interested in, as well as the representation media that you have explored.
• Your technical skills: feel free to include content of experimentation with any media.
• Your enthusiasm: this is your chance to let your work speak for you, show us your passion for design in landscape and urbanism.

Your portfolio may include art or design work produced using all forms of media and techniques that you may have been working on in the last few years as well as from recognised art and design courses from your potentially more distant past, such as GCSEs, A-levels, Diplomas or Foundation Courses (or the international equivalents), or from your own personal work. More specifically:

Applicants with a degree in a design-related discipline or related work experience:

• Include at least one piece of academic work you have completed in your undergraduate degree, and please indicate clearly which project this is.
• You may include work undertaken in design-related practice.
• You may include independent work, such as architectural competition entries, travel sketches, photography projects or any other work in any other media that illustrates your range of skills and expresses your architectural ideas and sensibilities.

Other applicants:

Please include visual/creative/landscape work such as: photographic essays, observational drawings, paintings of life/figure, design studies and experiments in sketchbooks, models of any kind, prints, textiles, sculptures, ceramics, glassworks, filming, writing, curating, weaving or telling stories. Don't worry if these don't seem related to the subject you are applying for, we know that everyone has been on a different journey to get here.

Digital portfolio format requirements

• A portfolio of maximum 20 pages, landscape orientation and saved/uploaded as a print-based or interactive PDF file.
• Include project titles and a brief description of each project explaining your intentions and your individual involvement if presenting a group project.
• Moving image works can optionally be included but are not required and should be uploaded to Vimeo or YouTube – please supply these links in your portfolio and make sure they are active and work on all platforms.
• Ensure that images are of a high quality and at least 72 dpi.

Prior learning – AP(E)L

Applicants with prior qualifications and learning may be exempt from appropriate parts of a course in accordance with the University's policy for the assessment of prior learning and prior experiential learning. Contact the faculty office for further information.

International

All non-UK applicants must meet our English language requirement, which is Academic IELTS of 6.5 overall, with no element below 5.5. Make sure you read our full guidance about English language requirements, which includes details of other qualifications we consider.

Applicants who do not meet the English language requirements could be eligible to join our pre-sessional English language course.

Applicants from recognised majority English-speaking countries (MESCs) do not need to meet these requirements.

Country-specific information

You will find more information on country-specific entry requirements in the International section of our website.

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