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'QUT offers the only double degree in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. I believe that understanding our planning scheme as well as the underlying pressures, constraints and opportunities in our urban areas is incredibly important when considering our approach to design. Both of my degrees have been incredibly practical and hands on, while also instilling creative problem solving skills and new ways to approach real world problems.'
Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture) and Bachelor of Urban Development (Urban and Regional Planning)
Landscape Architecture at QUT
Landscape architecture is such an important part of planning and designing for a resilient and healthy future. The green and open spaces in our modern world create natural habitats, shade hot city streets and create pleasant micro-climates.
Owen Cafe
'My tutors at QUT have inspired me to no end, opening doors for me to achieve my goals and passions. Since graduating, I have worked on some major projects including the West Village Commons from start to finish. As a landscape architect, my work sits at the precipice of collaboration between the sciences and planning – the perfect realm to create positive change.'
Your career starts here
'QUT offers the only double degree in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. I believe that understanding our planning scheme as well as the underlying pressures, constraints and opportunities in our urban areas is incredibly important when considering our approach to design. Both of my degrees have been incredibly practical and hands on, while also instilling creative problem solving skills and new ways to approach real world problems.'
Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture) and Bachelor of Urban Development (Urban and Regional Planning)
Landscape Architecture at QUT
Landscape architecture is such an important part of planning and designing for a resilient and healthy future. The green and open spaces in our modern world create natural habitats, shade hot city streets and create pleasant micro-climates.
Owen Cafe
'My tutors at QUT have inspired me to no end, opening doors for me to achieve my goals and passions. Since graduating, I have worked on some major projects including the West Village Commons from start to finish. As a landscape architect, my work sits at the precipice of collaboration between the sciences and planning – the perfect realm to create positive change.'
Highlights
- QUT offers the only landscape architecture degrees in Queensland, and has been one of Australia’s principal architecture educators for over 50 years.
- Learn about landscape systems to understand the complexity of landscape in relation to the creation of outdoor spaces with positive social, cultural and environmental impacts.
- Develop fundamental design skills to work on landscape design projects at all scales and levels of complexity.
- Work on real-world landscape design projects in practical studio settings, including direct engagement with communities and professional practitioners.
Highlights
- QUT offers the only landscape architecture degrees in Queensland, and has been one of Australia’s principal architecture educators for over 50 years.
- Learn about landscape systems to understand the complexity of landscape in relation to the creation of outdoor spaces with positive social, cultural and environmental impacts.
- Develop fundamental design skills to work on landscape design projects at all scales and levels of complexity.
- Work on real-world landscape design projects in practical studio settings, including direct engagement with communities and professional practitioners.
Why choose this course?
The green and open spaces in our modern world are treasured. Not just for their aesthetic, but for the balance they bring to the experience of place. They create natural habitats for flora and fauna. They shade hot city streets and create pleasant micro climates. They connect us with the natural environment and ground us in place. This is why landscape architecture is such an important part of planning and designing for a resilient and healthy future.
Real-world learning
You’ll work on real-world landscape design projects in practical studio settings such as recent projects involving the Brisbane Powerhouse and King Street redevelopments. Throughout the course you will have the opportunity to explore the world and gain international design experience through study tours, or be involved with the community through projects or hands-on design studios.
We have a 55-year history as one of Australia’s principal landscape educators and our graduates are leading practitioners employed around the world. Our teaching team employs an ethical commitment to progressive and integrated practice. We pride ourselves on implementing both evidence-based and speculative design underpinned by academic rigour and creativity. Our staff are linked to professional practice to ensure you gain knowledge of emerging trends within industry.
Explore this course
In this course you will learn to combine knowledge of landscape systems and design to propose designed changes to regions, cities as well as smaller areas and outdoor spaces, creating positive social, cultural and environmental impacts. Your degree will begin with introductory and shared impact lab units where, working with students from other disciplines, you’ll focus on problems and social issues and identify potential solutions connected to industry and community.
Your introductory studies will focus on foundational landscape design knowledge, skills and applications, covering a range of design principles, theories and processes which you will apply to real or simulated design scenarios. Building on these foundations you’ll then explore core units covering design history and theory, building materials, flora, ecology, landform and tectonics.
Later in your degree you will be able to transfer skills and knowledge to a diverse workplace or professional contexts and gain practical work experience through work integrated learning.
Double degrees
Combine your degree with a second degree to gain a broader range of skills and knowledge, a competitive advantage and enhanced career flexibility. Choose a double degree with:
- Business to develop skills that can lead to diverse careers intersecting design with marketing, public relations, advertising, international business, economics, management and human resource management.
- Engineering to work in private practice or in government at all levels, in roles such as structural engineer, geotechnical engineer, landscape architect and environmental engineer.
- Science to develop your understanding of environmental impacts of mining, tourism and urban development, and be equipped to rehabilitate and reforest degraded sites, or design outdoor spaces that enhance the environment.
- Urban and regional planning to use your combined skills in careers with private developers, government bodies and communities to enhance established neighbourhoods, and shape new suburbs, cities and regions.
Careers and outcomes
Our graduates find careers independently, in small partnerships or as a member of large multidisciplinary teams with other professionals such as architects, horticulturalists, engineers, urban designers and town planners in private practice or local, state and federal government.
Careers include pathways to being an accredited landscape architect, landscape designer, landscape technician or landscape construction technician. With international design experience many graduates enjoy work in overseas practices working to create a healthier and more resilient future.
Possible careers
- Landscape Architect
- Landscape Planner
- Urban Designer
To meet the course requirements for the Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture), you must complete a total of 288 credit points, made up of:
- a design major (144 credit points), including four shared foundation units (48 credit points) and 96 credit points from the landscape architecture discipline
- four school-wide impact lab units (48 credit points)
- complementary studies, made up of both:
- design specialisation units (minimum 48 credit points)
- a minor, or a combination of design specialisation units and electives (unit options) (48 credit points).
Study overseas
Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT creative industries degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.
Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in a creative or non-creative discipline area, depending on how they match with your QUT course.
To meet the course requirements for the Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture), you must complete a total of 288 credit points, made up of:
- a design major (144 credit points), including four shared foundation units (48 credit points) and 96 credit points from the landscape architecture discipline
- four school-wide impact lab units (48 credit points)
- complementary studies, made up of both:
- design specialisation units (minimum 48 credit points)
- a minor, or a combination of design specialisation units and electives (unit options) (48 credit points).
Study overseas
Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT creative industries degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.
Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in a creative or non-creative discipline area, depending on how they match with your QUT course.
- Selection rank
- 70.00
These thresholds are the lowest adjusted scores to which QUT made an offer in Semester 1, 2021.
Don't have a selection rank?
- Course code
- DE43
- QTAC code
- 412342
- CRICOS code
- 096565B
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- Gardens Point
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- Gardens Point
- 3 years full-time
- 6 years part-time
- 3 years full-time
- February and July
- February and July
Assumed knowledge
Before you start this course, we assume you have sound knowledge of the subject/s listed below. If you don't have the subject knowledge, you can still apply for the course but we strongly encourage you to undertake bridging studies to gain the knowledge:
- English, or Literature, or English and Literature Extension, or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 & 4, C)
Offer guarantee
If you achieve an ATAR or selection rank of 75.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
Advanced standing
If you have prior studies or work experience, you may be eligible for advanced standing (credit). You can apply for advanced standing once you've been accepted to QUT. If you're in your first semester of study, you must apply for advanced standing within 10 days of receiving your offer.
Deferment
You can defer your offer and postpone the start of your course for one year.
More about deferring your offer
Adjustments to your ATAR/selection rank
Any adjustments you receive to your ATAR or selection rank will be applied to this course.
Find out if you’re eligible for an adjustment to your ATAR or selection rank
Offers we made to school leavers in Semester 1, 2021
The figures listed in the tables below reflect the offers that were made to recent ATAR students. The entry thresholds box at the top of this page shows the lowest adjusted ATAR/selection rank required to receive an offer for all applicants for the most recent January QTAC offer round.
| Excluding adjustments | Including adjustments | |
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| Highest ATAR/selection rank to receive an offer |
Selection rank
93.80
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Selection rank
95.80
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| Median ATAR/selection rank to receive an offer |
Selection rank
78.30
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Selection rank
78.30
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| Lowest ATAR/selection rank to receive an offer |
Selection rank
68.25
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Selection rank
70.25
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You can find out more about your fellow students’ backgrounds with this course’s student profile.
Other admission options
If you are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, you may be eligible for admission through our Centralised Assessment Selection Process (CASP).
Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide to the grades you need to apply for this course.
If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.
I completed secondary school in Australia
- ATAR/selection rank
- 70.00
Offer guarantee
If you completed secondary school in Australia and achieve an ATAR/selection rank of 75.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
Minimum English language requirements
Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide on meeting QUT’s English language requirements.
Your scores and prior qualifications in English-speaking countries are considered. Approved English-speaking countries are Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, United States of America and Wales.
If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.
We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests.
| English Test | Overall | Listening | Reading | Writing | Speaking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Pearson PTE (Academic)
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement date. |
58 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
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Cambridge English Score
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement. You must provide your Candidate ID and Candidate Secret Number, these are printed on your Cambridge English Confirmation of Entry. |
176 | 169 | 169 | 169 | 169 |
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IELTS Academic
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement date. |
6.5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
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TOEFL iBT
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement date. |
79 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 18 |
Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!
We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.
When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.
Haven't completed an English language test? We can help!
If you have not completed an English language test, you can sit the IELTS test at our IELTS test centre
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2022 fees
2022: CSP $8,500 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2022 fees
2022: $32,500 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
Find out more about undergraduate course fees
HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.