Overview

The undergraduate Landscape Architecture curriculum, at Cornell University, is a broad-based course of study that provides instruction in the skills necessary for professional practice and is a license-qualifying, first professional degree.

The foundation of the Landscape Architecture undergraduate curriculum is a sequence of intensive design studios. The design studio model involves a one-on-one relationship between student and faculty and this interaction typifies the Cornell landscape architecture program. Each studio requires a different set of principles and theories, as well as an artistic mastery of the media of landscape – landform, plants, water, and non-vegetal materials and their manipulation through the application of ecological and technological practices.

Key Facts

The topics, sites, contexts, constituencies, and scales of development of each studio builds on the previous studio in an ever-increasing level of complexity and attention to detail and conceptual thought. Supplemental courses in all other aspects of the field provide the information that will be synthesized in the studio to reinforce the design process and end result.

The studio format entails lectures, demonstrations, field trips, readings, guest presentations, precedent study, one-on-one instruction, and group discourse. Rather than espousing a singular design philosophy or style, the department offers multiple perspectives on design, imparted through the studio course sequence. The required sequential nature of the studios offered throughout the student’s academic career at Cornell allows for each studio to build on the previous one with an ever-increasing degree of complexity and attention to detail. Studio size is conducive to small group interaction among students and between students and faculty.

Accreditation

Our undergraduate program complies with the requirements of three governing bodies: the New York State Education Department (NYSED), the Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB), and the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board (LAAB).

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Medium of the Landscape

Grounding in Landscape Architecture

Integrating Theory and Practice

Computer Applications in Landscape Architecture

Theoretical

Creating the Urban Eden: Woody Plant Selection, Design, and Landscape Establishment

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-02 00:00:00

Language

English

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100

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Ithaca, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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General requirements

Basic Requirements

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Application

Application Supporting Materials

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Official Transcript

Standardized Test Scores

Application Fee

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

71266 USD / year

≈ 71266 USD / year
Out-of-State

71266 USD / year

≈ 71266 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

48010 USD / year

≈ 48010 USD / year

Living costs

Ithaca

United States

1128 - 2460 USD / month

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