Study landscape architecture

Why study landscape architecture at QUT?

QUT offers the only fully accredited landscape architecture degree in Queensland and has a 40-year history as one of Australia’s principal landscape educators. Subtropical Brisbane offers an exceptional threshold location, providing diversity to your studies. Our graduates are leading practitioners employed around the world.

As a QUT design student, you'll be part of a vibrant, multidisciplinary school with excellent connections to the real world of design professions. Our landscape architecture graduates excel in the real world, and have an outstanding record of achievement nationally and globally. If you are committed and passionate about design, you will thrive in our engaging and fulfilling design courses.

Landscape architecture offers a design career combining art and science to create long-lasting and meaningful, enjoyable outdoor places. You’ll have the opportunity to play a significant role in the economic, social and environmental interests of communities through design, planning, development and management, and to contribute to making the world a better place physically, socially, culturally and environmentally.

Landscape architecture is one of a suite of Design disciplines fundamental to the creative industries, and is based on an industry-focused combination of creativity, communication, technology, and business enterprise. As a landscape architect you’ll be prepared to research, plan, design and advise on the organisation, conservation and sustainability of outdoor environments.

Our landscape architecture courses feature unique real-world project and studio-based learning. Your studies will be supported by new digital technologies, well-equipped workshops and design studios, and our design fabrication labs provide a space for hands-on prototyping of designs. You’ll learn how to design and plan projects including parks and other recreational places, botanic gardens, sporting complexes, various educational, commercial, industrial and residential sites as well as landscapes associated with major infrastructure systems such as roads and railways.

We’re passionate about keeping our courses real and relevant. Findings from individual staff research feeds back into our teaching so we can advance the discipline of landscape architecture for the community and practice. Many of our teaching staff work in professional practice and bring their experience into our design studios and theory units. This keeps our teaching well grounded and linked to industry.

In our Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture) you can diversify your study with selected minors or a second major area of study, giving you further career options. You’ll be involved in some real-world problem-solving projects involving community participation, and also have the opportunity to combine meaningful, professional workplace activities with academic learning, assessment and support with our Work Integrated Learning program.

Collaborate with the design community through public lectures, student-run exhibitions and off-campus and international study tours to European design capitals such as Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France.

Career outcomes

Our courses will prepare you for a career working independently, in small partnerships or large multidisciplinary teams with other professionals such as architects, engineers, urban designers and town planners.

You may work in private practice or in government areas at all levels (municipal, state and federal) and be engaged in site planning, site design, planting design and landscape planning. Many graduates enjoy work in overseas practices.