Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

We believe that landscape education and landscape practice begins outside, in the landscape. But we aren’t tourists. When we’re outside, we’re working. We measure and observe, we experiment when called for, we learn to test our assumptions from the studio against the messy (and sometimes thorny) realities of mud, vines, and stone. We fly drones to make our own maps; we draw to understand what we see.

We don’t wait for work to find us. We believe in the value of public interest design, and we seek out opportunities to serve communities. Landscape architects engage the public to shape our work to respond to its needs. We help rally communities around issues. We build constituencies and momentum.

We learn by making. We prototype. We generate propositions and test them. Much of our time is spent exploring potential futures through drawings and models. These are the methods that allow us to design landscapes that are both forward thinking and will stand the test of time.

Landscape architecture is a broad and varied profession, with roots in a diverse set of disciplines, including architecture, gardening, and ecology. We value that breadth and encourage undergraduate students to explore the many ways that their training in reading, understanding, and shaping landscapes may form a career trajectory. We also believe that landscape architects can and should continually find new ways to apply our skills to address the ever-shifting needs of society. This requires being comfortable working in new terrain, with new problems, and with new collaborators. We seek out opportunities to engage this expanded field.

The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program is a direct admit program. Students interested in the program should apply for admission to Auburn University listing “Landscape Architecture” as their intended major. If accepted to Auburn as a Landscape Architecture major, students are eligible to begin the eight semester, four year curriculum during the fall semester of their freshmen year.

For more information on Admissions to Auburn visit the Admissions Website here. 

Criteria for Admission:

• Transfer students must meet the minimum requirements as set by Auburn University to be admitted to the College of Architecture, Design, and Construction as a Landscape Architecture student.

Transfers from LAAB-accredited Landscape Architecture programs:

• In addition to meeting the minimum requirements as set by Auburn University, transfer students from LAAB-accredited Landscape Architecture programs will be evaluated by the Academic Review Committee (ARC) which will determine the level of placement in the Landscape Architecture program.

Transfers from other majors at Auburn University:

• Auburn students interested in changing their major to Landscape Architecture must have a minimum of a 2.5 Auburn GPA. Students should speak with a CADC Academic Advisor for information on credits that may transfer from their current major.

Studio Sequence

• Landscape Architecture Studios are cumulative, building upon each other as the curriculum progresses. Studios are taught in fall-spring sequence, and are only offered in order. Fall studios are not taught in the spring, spring studios are not taught in the fall and no studio courses are taught over the summer. Transfer students are encouraged to enter in the fall semester to ensure they are able to start studio courses in their first semester at Auburn.

Landscape Architecture is a professional program at both the Graduate and Undergraduate level. The CADC charges a professional fee to partially defray the difference between state funding and tuition, and the actual costs of our professional programs. Within each program, a professional fee charge of $2,160 is tied to enrollment in specific trigger courses. The trigger courses within the Landscape Architecture Program are Design Studios and Workshops. There is a trigger course in all eight semesters of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program.

Through the professional fees, the CADC continues to provide our students with rigorous and relevant academic experiences, which contribute to our programs being recognized as among the best in the nation.

For More Information on Professional Fees and Trigger Courses visit our Professional Fees page here.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has designated landscape architecture a STEM discipline. The designation recognizes the high degree of science, technology, engineering and mathematics course work required in landscape architecture collegiate programs.