Landscape Architecture PGDip

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Overview

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Postgraduate Diploma

Landscape Architecture PGDip, home applicant, full time

  • Home Applicant
  • Full time, 1 year
  • Pound 6000 per year

Landscape Architecture PGDip, home applicant, part time

  • Home Applicant
  • Part time, 2 years
  • Pound 1500 per 30 credit module

Landscape Architecture PGDip, international applicant, full time

  • International Applicant
  • Full time, 1 year
  • Pound 10840 per year

What makes this course different

Live projects with social impact

We work on live build projects, and with real clients to learn hands-on, changing lives and places, delivering positive social impact and benefits to London communities.

Tailored teaching to suit diverse skills

Our students are from a range of backgrounds, not just art and design. Through tailored teaching, we help extend your skills and subject knowledge to professional standard, at your pace.

Industry placement

The postgraduate diploma course includes shadowing placements within leading landscape architectural practices in London, giving you the opportunity to gain direct experience and make professional connections while you study.

Course modules

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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What we're researching

We collaborate with other departments within UEL on a range of research projects. We work closely with UEL’s Sustainability Research Institute on projects relating to Landscape Architecture, biodiversity and nature-based solutions. One of our current research projects is investigating the suitability of a by-product of Tate and Lyle’s refining process as a suitable substrate for seeding meadows and green roofs. Tate and Lyle, as a local employer, are working with UEL on a range of research projects that our students are involved with. This year students have been involved with designing and constructing the trial beds, as well as developing the methodology and undertaking monitoring as part of their Thesis module. 

Clare Penny’s particular research interests include the pedagogy of Landscape Architecture. She recently prepared a conference post for a conference on the teaching of Landscape History and Theory, hosted by the University of Sheffield. Clare is also undertaking preliminary research, which investigates how humans will live on Mars, in relation to green space and mental health.

Your future career

With increased focus on environmental issues, and on building healthy communities, landscape architects are more in demand professionally, nationally and internationally. There is a high industry employment rate. 

Job roles

Our graduates perform well within the field, achieving recognition and industry awards, and employment in practices in the UK and overseas. Several gained employment as a direct result of our shadowing placements. Our School has links with a range of professional practices and will give you invaluable experience of working collaboratively with other disciplines, on live projects and with professionals in a practice setting.

All of our postgraduate landscape courses have full accreditation from the Landscape Institute.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

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The course was highly practical and relevant to the thinking and actions that underpin the work I now do day-to-day as a landscape architect. Despite having no previous experience in design, my knowledge of young people, education and play that I developed in my previous career was valued at UEL. Projects which allowed for flexibility and self-direction meant I could draw on the learning and interests that I arrived with, yet I was also challenged to develop these in light of what I was being taught about design, environment and successful places. I am thrilled to be working with a practice that champions these values and I am grateful to the course at UEL for helping to make this possible."
Nic McEwan

Landscape Architect - Farrer Huxley (Completed the MA Professional Landscape Architecture with Conversion)

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

Our dedicated and award-winning team provide you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Online jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work.
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you’ve mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top

  • Enterprise and entrepreneurship support 
  • We are ranked 6th for graduate start-ups 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business, freelancing and self-employment 
  • London on our doorstep

How you'll learn

At UEL you will be working in an inspiring, creative setting where your interests and passions count. Our students are from a range of backgrounds, not just art and design, which gives you access to diverse knowledge, different modes of thinking, and a wide student skillset. Through tailored teaching, we help extend your skills and subject knowledge to landscape professional standards, whatever your starting point.

You can gain the skills and understanding that will facilitate self-expression, and the understanding to engage creatively with living systems in a changing environment. We engage with live sites and clients, with projects tailored at a pace in keeping with your developing skills.

The postgraduate diploma runs alongside the MA in Professional Landscape Architecture, and offers opportunities for collaborative project work within landscape architecture and with architecture and urban design students. You will also benefit from shadowing placements within leading studios in London.

Guided independent study

When not attending timetabled lectures or workshops, you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. This will typically involve skills development through online study, reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects and preparing coursework assignments and presentations. Your independent learning is supported by a range of excellent facilities including online resources, and specialist facilities, such as game labs, the library, the full Microsoft Office software, including MS Teams, and Moodle: our Virtual Learning Environment.

Academic support

Our academic support team provides help in a range of areas - including learning and disability support.

Dedicated personal tutor

When you arrive, we'll introduce you to your personal tutor. This is the member of staff who will provide academic guidance, be a support throughout your time at UEL and who will show you how to make the best use of all the help and resources that we offer.

How you'll be assessed

Your understanding of each module is assessed through a variety of written/ illustrated reports and design drawing portfolios, submitted at the end of the module. 

Your submitted coursework is completed against detailed project briefs, with submissions selected from project work developed in a variety of media, practical and 3D work, essays, site research studies,  illustrated reports, seminar papers and presentations. Teaching supports the development of materials for submission through seminars individual and group tutorials, field visits and lectures.

All coursework is double-marked and reviewed by an external examination board.

Campus and facilities

Docklands Campus, London, E16 2RD

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering

The teaching team includes qualified academics, practitioners and industry experts as guest speakers. Full details of the academics will be provided in the student handbook and module guides.