About

Landscape architects design communities and environments that aim to be ecologically sound, functionally efficient, and preserving of community values. They solve problems of development, protection and restoration. The land use contexts in which they work range from wilderness to city; the scale ranges from a multi-state region to a garden or courtyard.

Job demand and average salaries for landscape architectural graduates have been steadily increasing in recent years. In addition to competitive salaries and plentiful job opportunities, the profession offers the satisfaction of designing and shaping the built environment alongside architects, planners and urban designers.

MLA graduates are important to the profession and society. Most of the country’s leading practitioners, most recent ASLA presidents, and essentially all of the country’s landscape architectural educators hold MLA degrees.

Georgia’s MLA program aims to assure a basic professional grounding in landscape architecture, to allow individual students to develop special focus areas within the profession, and to educate and encourage them to make lasting contributions to the profession and to society.

Georgia’s MLA program is one of the oldest graduate landscape architectural programs in the country, having been initiated in 1954. Among Georgia’s MLA alumni are winners of national design competitions, Presidents and Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects, heads of prestigious university departments, senior editors of national journals, leaders of the National Park Service and other public institutions, most of the designers of the 1996 Olympic venues, and leading practitioners all over the world.