The goal of creative excellence and practical their practical application is common to all our courses. The high standards of our courses have been recognised by external examiners, practitioners and professional bodies. All courses are mainly assessed by project work. Students regularly win high profile design competitions and are invited to work on live projects. Graduates from our courses are highly sought-after by design practitioners, with many of our graduates employed in key positions throughout the UK and overseas.
An excellent learning environment includes new multi-media studios equipped with drawing boards, computers and model-making facilities, a state-of-the-art library and IT suites, specialist workshops and, unique to Leeds, experimental gardens at the Headingley Campus. All courses are taught by a dedicated academic team of professionals with extensive and wide ranging practice-based experience.
Landscape Architecture at Leeds has established a reputation as one of the leading programmes in Europe. Our BA Landscape Architecture, BA Garden Art and Design courses and Grduate Ceritficate conversion course, when combined with the Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture, are fully accredited by the Landscape Institute.
Flexible opportunities exist for higher research awards including: