COAFES & CALA Joint Landscape Design Program:
Navigating Your Options
Transfer student w/more than 30 credits; 2.5 GPA interested in Landscape Architecture (LA)
Transfer student w/more than 30 credits; 2.5 GPA interested in Landscape Design (LD)
High school student or any other transfer student not yet covered interested in LD or LA
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA)
College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (COAFES)
Bachelor of Environmental Design, BED
Pre-Landscape Architecture (COAFES)
Environmental Horticulture (Bachelor of Science, B.S.)
Planning
Accelerated 3-year program
Landscape Design (COAFES or CALA)
Landscape Implementation/ Management
Floriculture/ Nursery Production
Turfgrass Science
Individualized Study
Master of Landscape Architecture, MLA
Professional Career
Master of Agriculture, M.Ag. (Horticulture, Landscape Design)
COAFES & CALA Joint Landscape Design Program: Navigating Your Options
Students Admitted COAFES
New high school students interested in LD or Pre-LA Transfer students interested in LD through Environmental Horticulture Transfer students not meeting CALA entrance requirements for LD or LA
CALA
Transfer students with more than 30 credits and 2.5 GPA interested in LD or LA Pre-LA students from COAFES interested in LA or LD who have more than 30 credits and 2.5 GPA
Benefits of joint LD program
Exposure to about 12 LA and design faculty who are experts in their fields Three to four studio courses throughout undergraduate degree Balanced curriculum of architecture, design, and plant courses Experience in two CAD software programs
Strengths of each College
COAFES
Scholarship dollars for new high school, transfer, and current undergraduate students Small, friendly campus and department Faculty advisors who have teaching, research, and industry experience Strong industry connections for mentor relationships and internship/work experience Special facilities (Display and Trial Garden; new state-ofthe-art classrooms and greenhouses; LD studio and CAD lab; dedicated landscape website)
CALA
Strong ties to design arts and landscape architectural practitioners Excellent advising from college and departmental faculty and staff Involvement of regular tenured faculty in teaching of courses Strong rapport with peers and faculty Excellent technology support in computing and digital media Mentoring by members of professional community
Students would be a good fit in…
COAFES if they:
Like plants and biological sciences Interested in residential LD work Desire a smaller learning environment and campus with many opportunities to form connections with students, faculty, and staff Plan to pursues the accelerated BED to get into the MLA program early Unsure of career plans or which College they want (as a Pre-LA)
CALA if they:
Want to mix art and design with engineering and ecology Interested in residential LD work Interested in civic and larger scale private landscape design and environmental planning Desire connections with faculty, staff and students in small college as well as practitioner community Plan to pursue the accelerated BED to get into the MLA program early Unsure of career plans or which College they want