PGDip Landscape Architecture

University of East London

This is a design-based career conversion/ development course, for anyone with a passion for landscape architecture, but a first degree in any other subject. It is fully accredited by the Landscape Institute. Our 'conversion' postgraduate diploma does lead to employment in landscape offices, but you will need to return to study and take a Masters in Professional Landscape Architecture to gain full UK Licentiate status, giving entry to the Landscape Institute Pathway to Chartership. You might also consider applying for the Masters in Professional Landscape Architecture (with Conversion) - our 'straight through' to Licentiate status programme.UEL's professional landscape architecture programmes build your skills for a future career in landscape architecture in the context of key issues in contemporary life - city expansion, migration and displacement, diversity, inequality, competition for resources, climate change, and food security. We challenge you to consider your understanding of what landscape is about, and what it can and should do. You'll learn through design studio, site visits, and by interaction with professionals and academics across a range of spatial and environmental disciplines, as well as getting hands-on, with the practicalities of building now, for existing needs with real clients and communities.At UEL you will be working in an inspiring, creative setting where your interests and passions count. Our students are from a range of backgrounds, not just art and design, which gives you access to diverse knowledge, different modes of thinking, and a wide student skillset. Through tailored teaching, we help extend your skills and subject knowledge to landscape professional standards, whatever your starting point.With increased focus on environmental issues, and on building healthy communities, landscape architects are more in demand professionally, nationally and internationally. There is a high industry employment rate. Our graduates perform well within the field, achieving recognition and industry awards, and employment in practices in the UK and overseas. Several gained employment as a direct result of our shadowing placements. Our School has links with a range of professional practices and will give you invaluable experience of working collaboratively with other disciplines, on live projects and with professionals in a practice setting.All of our postgraduate landscape courses have full accreditation from the Landscape Institute.