Master of Landscape Architecture
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Initiated in 1954, Georgia’s MLA program is one of the oldest graduate landscape architectural programs in the country, with the largest and most complete landscape architectural faculty anywhere. Among Georgia’s MLA alumni are winners of national design competitions, Presidents and Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects, heads of prestigious university departments, senior editors of national journals, leaders of the National Park Service and other public institutions, most of the designers of the 1996 Olympic venues, and leading practitioners all over the world. Each year about 16 new students are selectively admitted to the program.
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MLA Curriculum
The MLA curriculum consists of design studios, support courses, core landscape architecture classes and student-selected electives. Students are admitted into one- to three-year programs of study, depending on their educational and professional backgrounds. Students with a non-design undergraduate degree enter a three-year curriculum track, with possible exemptions based on their previous studies. Applicants with professional applied design degrees enter directly into the second year of study. Applicants with BLA or BSLA degrees and ten or more years of professional experience may enter in the third year, accelerating their studies with a one-year program focused on their specialization.
MLA Admissions
All MLA applicants apply under the “prospective candidate for a degree” admission category, and are required to submit the following:
- Academic transcripts
- GRE scores
- Three references
- Letter of intent
- Admission Interview (in most cases)
Click "for more information" below to view the complete admissions guide.
Project Spotlight: Newtown Community Development
Professor Alfie Vick's Nature & Sustainability studio spent fall semester of 2008 addressing real-world ecological and social issues surrounding the neighborhood of Newtown in the industrial center of Gainesville, Georgia. Student projects included a video inventory and analysis; alternative future uses for a junkyard adjacent to the neighborhood; a Rails2Trails proposal that connects Newtown to greater Gainesville; and a 25-year Vision Plan. The video was featured in a Landscape Architect & Specifier News magazine article.
MLA Reading List
All students should read at least some of the following publications, or ones like them, before entering Georgia’s MLA program. They are preliminary to landscape architecture: they deal more with values and perceptions than with techniques. Some of them may be out of print and available only in libraries, not bookstores; that does not reduce their value as background to landscape architecture.
Landscape Architecture Information
View the full listing of Landscape Architecture courses here.
View course syllabi here.
Technology Requirements
Graduate students at the College of Environment and Design will be expected to complete a number of computing-intensive projects. It is in every student’s best interests to be able to work on these projects whether they are on campus or not. The following suggestions describe the minimum hardware and software required to easily complete design projects on a personal computer.
Differential Tuition
Students at the College of Environment & Design pay a differential tuition fee, which provides the class sizes, cutting-edge technology, and physical equipment necessary to keep our programs high in national rankings and prestige. For a full breakdown of the benefits and cost of differential tuition, click "for more information" below.
