Eligibility Criteria
A candidate for admission to the program must have a strong academic record and demonstrate potential for creative problem solving. The Landscape Architecture Program selects students from a variety of disciplines on which to build landscape architectural understanding, competence, and the sharing of knowledge. Students entering the program should demonstrate interest in and potential in the broad fields of environment, the creative arts, and landscape architecture.
Students are accepted into the three-year MLA from all disciplines; applicants seeking admission into the two-year MLA variant must be in possession of a four-year undergraduate degree in Architecture, Environmental Design or Landscape Architecture. Certain students may be expected to fulfil additional requirements in order to adequately prepare them for their design and environmental studies. Prospective students are encouraged to follow an honours or major program in their own discipline and develop some breadth of knowledge during their undergraduate program by selecting from courses in biology, ecology, economics, geography, forestry, fine arts, history, sociology, and soils. It is desirable that students have completed courses in biology, drawing, English literature and composition, plant identification-classification, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and soils.
In addition, students are required to submit examples of their creative abilities in the form of an application portfolio and demonstrate, in writing, their understanding of the profession. For additional information on the profession and guidance in the preparation for entry to the master’s program students are advised to contact the Landscape Architecture Program Office. Prospective students are further encouraged to establish contact with the program during their pre-landscape architectural years by arranging to meet with faculty, by attendance at presentations of student work, and by informal contacts with students, recent graduates, and professionals.
Application for admission must be made to Student Services, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences on appropriate forms. Some applicants who meet UBC admission requirements may not be acceptable to the Landscape Architecture program because of limitations in the number of available places. Approximately 18 students will be selected each year. All admissions must be approved by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Students accepted for admission who subsequently find that they are unable to attend must reapply if seeking admission at a later date. Unsuccessful applicants should seek the advice of the program before submitting a new application.