Master of Landscape Architecture

The entry requirements for the Master of Landscape Architecture are different depending on your academic background.

Study Landscape Architecture over two years

• Duration: 2 years full-time / 4 years part-time
• Study mode: On-campus only – Parkville campus
• Intake: Semester 1/Semester 2
• Academic background: You have a three-year undergraduate degree in landscape architecture

You need to meet the following criteria for successful entry to the program:

• A minimum three-year undergraduate degree with a landscape architecture major with a weighted average of at least 65%, or equivalent to the University of Melbourne grading scheme.
• A personal statement of up to 500 words outlining relevant prior study and work experience, and motivation to undertake the program.
• A design portfolio.

Design portfolio requirements

You must submit a design portfolio  focussing on design work (rather than, for example, life or still-life drawing skills). If you are submitting work done in the context of employment, you should explain your role in the work produced with brief notes.

Images and drawings presented in the portfolio should be reproduced at sufficient scale and resolution to be clearly readable. Elaborate formats that reduce the available page space for the design images should be avoided. It is most helpful to see a variety of drawings and images: free hand diagrams, computer images, two-dimensional (plans, sections, elevations) and three-dimensional studies, and photographs of physical models.

Please note meeting the minimum entry requirements is not a guarantee of entry.

Study Master of Landscape Architecture over three years.

• Duration: 3 years full-time or 6 years part-time
• Intake: Semester 1 only 
• Study mode: On-campus only – Parkville campus
• Academic background: You have completed an undergraduate degree but it is not in landscape architecture

You need to meet the following criteria for successful entry to the program:

• An undergraduate degree in any discipline with a weighted average of at least 65%, or equivalent to the University of Melbourne grading scheme.
• A personal statement of no more than 500 words which outlines relevant prior study, work experience and motivation to undertake the program. This should include evidence of your interest in design and aptitude for creative thinking through design. Evidence can include photographic essays, photographs of executed works of visual art, prose, published writing, graphic design, records of multi-media design and design processes from other disciplines. This material should be incorporated into the personal statement.

Design portfolio requirements

A portfolio is required if you have completed tertiary education in a design discipline. If you have not completed study in design, you are not required to submit a portfolio.

What is a design background?

• 25% of your study is design studio/project related in any discipline.

If you need further clarification about whether you require a design portfolio to apply for the 300 point Landscape Architecture degree, please email us.

The Selection Committee may conduct interviews or tests and may call for referee reports and employer references to clarify any of the points above.

Please note meeting the minimum entry requirements is not a guarantee of entry.