Landscape Architecture is a design discipline that gives you the skills to contribute to a more sustainable and just future for all.
If you are a creative person who cares deeply about the living planet and the environment that surrounds you, this programme will empower you to imagine and enact the change you want to see.
Our professionally accredited, two-year, full-time post-graduate Masters in Landscape Architecture (MLA) programme is open to students from a range of academic and professional backgrounds who want to develop their own socially and environmentally aware design practice.
Landscapes are vibrant, complex entities which are always changing. They sustain us. They are powerful sensory spaces we inhabit or simply traverse. They are also the sites of some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
Landscape architects plan and design with landscapes. They work across urban and rural environments, often in exciting multidisciplinary teams.
Landscape architecture is deployed on spatial scales ranging from the garden to the region, and timescales ranging from seasons to centuries. Being a landscape architect gives you the tools to make sense of and work within complex socioecological contexts.
We constantly re-examine our teaching and research practices to respond to our current context and student feedback.
The question of how to design with landscapes and their multispecies communities in a climate and biodiversity crisis underpins our programme.
We are in an art college with a distinctive design culture and exceptional workshop facilities. We are therefore uniquely placed to support you in developing your making-thinking practice, which will enable you to critically understand and apply environmental theories to practical contexts.
Taught by dedicated academics and practitioners, you will actively engage with urgent socioecological questions through site-specific and design-led learning. You will explore how to formulate meaningful design responses in our time of crisis.
If you are curious, creative and motivated to grow your landscape architectural voice, we would love to have you on our programme.
Thinking about studying MLA Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art? Discover the programme, how you'll be taught, and hear from our students about their study experiences with us.
I completed my undergraduate studies in Landscape Architecture at Beijing Forestry University, where the curriculum emphasised plant knowledge and a technical, science-based approach.
For my postgraduate studies, I was eager to explore a more artistic and open-ended approach to design. What attracted me to ECA was its strong artistic environment, which not only provided solid design teaching but also allowed me to explore a wide range of creative workshops—from bookbinding and woodworking to film processing and printmaking. These hands-on experiences helped me reconnect with the materiality of landscape and fostered a more direct, tactile relationship with the site.
A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in a relevant subject such as landscape architecture, architecture, design, art, geography, planning, ecology and horticulture.
If you do not meet the academic entry requirements you may still be considered on the basis of your portfolio and/or relevant professional experience.
You must submit a portfolio as part of your application. You can find out more about the portfolio requirements in the Applying section.
To find international equivalent qualifications, select where you studied from the country or region list.
| QS 综合 | 院校 | 学制 | 学费 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 第 10 位 | 新加坡国立大学National University of Singapore | 2年 | 49050新币/年 |
| 第 11 位 | 香港大学The University of Hong Kong | 2年 | 240000港币/年 |
| 第 22 位 | 墨尔本大学The University of Melbourne | 3年 | 66024澳元/年 |
| 第 40 位 | 曼彻斯特大学The University of Manchester | 2年 | 28500英镑/年 |
| 第 77 位 | 西澳大学The University of Western Australia | 3年 | 47700澳元/年 |
| 第 79 位 | 阿德莱德大学Adelaide University | 2年 | 53 |
| 第 119 位 | 皇家墨尔本理工大学RMIT University | 2年 | 47520澳元/年 |
| 第 128 位 | 马来西亚理科大学Universiti Sains Malaysia | 2年 | - |