Academics

Degree Programs

First Professional LAAB Degree (TRACK III)

For graduate students with undergraduate degrees in fields other than landscape architecture, architecture, or related design fields.

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First Professional LAAB Degree, Advanced Standing (TRACK II)

For graduate students with degrees in landscape architecture, architecture, or related design programs that are not LAAB accredited.

For graduate students obtaining concurrent degrees in architecture, urban design or urban planning.

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MLA Post Professional Degree (TRACK I)

For graduate students with prior LAAB accredited degrees in landscape architecture

View Track I Curriculum

Concurrent Degree Opportunities

MLA + Master of Architecture at NCSU

Landscape architecture students have the opportunity to earn a dual degree in both landscape architecture and architecture in either 3 or 4 years depending on experience.

Interested candidates should contact Carla Delcambre for additional information as these opportunities are customized based on students’ background and experience.

MLA + Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) at UNC Chapel Hill

For graduate students with degrees in landscape architecture, architecture, or related design programs that are not LAAB accredited.

For graduate students obtaining concurrent degrees in architecture, urban design or urban planning.

Interested candidates should contact Carla Delcambre for additional information as these opportunities are customized based on students’ background and experience.

City Design Certificate

The Graduate Certificate in City Design focuses on design at the scale of the city, and within neighborhoods and urban districts. Studios and seminars focus on the challenges, and opportunities facing communities and cities in the 21st century, with a particular emphasis upon principles of sustainability and urban ecology.

Public Interest Design Certificate

Public Interest Design (PID) is a participatory and issue-based design practice that places emphasis on the “triple bottom line” of sustainable design that includes environmental, economic, and social challenges across the world. PID seeks to broaden access to the benefits of sustainable design to all.

Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design Certificate

The imperative motivating the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design is to educate the next generation of practitioners and scholars to apply knowledge gained in the classroom and in the field to reduce the rise in disaster losses and assist communities to adapt to a changing climate. The aims of the certificate reflect the NC State vision of “Think and Do”, to include using evidence-based information, assessing existing policy constraints and opportunities, and visually depicting examples of policy achieved through good planning, engineering and design.

For other Graduate Certificate Programs that may be of interest to MLA students (GIS, Public Policy, and Horticultural Science), please visit the Graduate School website.