Overview
The Master of Landscape Architecture (Honours) at UNSW is a postgraduate degree that allows you to bring previous experience to launch a career shaping open spaces that benefit people and the planet.
As a Registered Landscape Architect, your professional practice will combine art and science to plan, design and manage landscapes that conserve and celebrate ecology and cultural values. You’ll be equipped to work with cities and communities around the world, designing open spaces in response to issues such as urbanisation, migration, sustainability and climate change.
UNSW’s is the longest established, accredited Landscape Architecture program in Australia. Through this studio-based degree, you’ll explore design principles, graphic techniques, ecological processes and human modification of the environment.
Key features
The key features and subject areas in this degree will see you explore landscape architecture through theory and practice, preparing you for diverse, future-focused careers. These include:
Landscape technology
Landscape systems & performance
Advanced landscape theory & Research
People, place and design
Urban ecology and landscape design
GIS and Urban Informatics
Urban landscape and heritage
Planting design at the landscape scale
Future careers
Landscape architecture is a design profession with a long tradition and increasing relevance as more cities, governments, organisations and communities work to create sustainable and beautiful environments in urban and rural settings.
Studying Landscape Architecture, you’ll gain a wide range of experience from design and visual communication, to plant knowledge, innovative materials and ground-breaking technologies, environmental legislation and landscape management, contracts, ethics and tendering. You’ll graduate with the knowledge, practical skills and confidence to go after and succeed in diverse careers with impact.
Potential careers
Registered Landscape Architect
Urban Landscape Designer
Artist
Landscape Project Officer and/or Manager
Recreation Manager
Urban Designer
Strategic Planner
Project Manager
Sustainability Specialist in government agencies
Academic
Heritage Consultant
Public Domain Manager
Environmental Manager
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
September 2025
Kensington Campus
High Street, Kensington,
UNSW SYDNEY,
New South Wales,
2052, SYDNEY, Australia
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
February 2026
Kensington Campus
High Street, Kensington,
UNSW SYDNEY,
New South Wales,
2052, SYDNEY, Australia
The UNSW Master of Landscape Architecture welcomes students from design and non-design backgrounds. There are three different entry pathways to the program: one for students with a non-design background, a second one for students from a closely related discipline; and a third for students who have completed a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from an accredited program.
Applicants from unrelated degree backgrounds are required to have achieved a credit average in their bachelor degree.
Applicants for the degree with qualifications in a related discipline** are required to have achieved a credit average in their bachelor degree.
Applicants with a 4 year accredited Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree are required to have achieved a credit average in their bachelor degree.
English Language Requirements:
IELTS: 7.0 overall (min. 6.0 in each subtest); TOEFL IBT (Internet Based): 94 overall (min. 25 in writing, 23 in reading, listening and speaking); Pearson (PTE - Academic): 65 overall (min. 54 in each subtest); C1 Advanced Cambridge: 185 overall (min. 169 in each subtest); C2 Proficiency Cambridge: 185 overall (min. 180 in each subtest); UNSW Global University English Entry Course (UEEC): Successful completion with a minimum overall grade of B and a minimum grade of C in the writing component.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
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