Master's degree in Landscape Architecture (MBLandArch)
Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB)
Barcelona School of Agri-Food and Biosystems Engineering (EEABB)
The aim of the master’s degree in Landscape Architecture (MBLandArch) (master's degree web) is to provide an up-to-date response to current landscaping problems and to equip graduates with skills in landscape analysis, planning, design and management, while including the new challenges of adopting EU directives, laws and standards that refer either directly or indirectly to the landscape.
- Duration and start date
- Two academic years, 120 ECTS credits. Starting September
- Timetable and delivery
- Afternoons. Face-to-face
- Fees and grants
- Approximate fees for the master’s degree, excluding other costs, €3,320 (€8,300 for non-EU residents).
More information about fees and payment options
More information about grants and loans - Language of instruction
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Information on language use in the classroom and students’ language rights.
- Location
- School of Architecture of Barcelona (Barcelona).
- College of Agricultural Engineering of Barcelona (Castelldefels) – basic subjects to standardise the level for students coming from courses in Architecture and Engineering.
- Official degree
- Recorded in the Ministry of Education's degree register
- General requirements
- Academic requirements for admission to master's degrees
- Specific requirements
In addition, holders of degrees in Architecture, Agricultural Engineering, Forest Engineering and other engineering degrees and diplomas related to spatial development can access this Master's degree.
- Admission criteria
- Academic record focusing on the field of landscaping.
- Proof of professional experience within teams of designers.
- Academic certificates proving basic drawing skills will be positively evaluated.
- Places
- 30
- Pre-enrolment
- Pre-enrolment closed (consult the new pre-enrolment periods in the academic calendar).
How to pre-enrol - Enrolment
- How to enrol
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- All documents issued in non-EU countries must be legalised and bear the corresponding apostille.
First semester
Second semester
Third semester
Fourth semester
- CompulsoryECTS
- OptionalECTS
- ProjectECTS
Professional opportunities
- Professional opportunities
Landscape architects work for planning consultancies, for companies in the gardening and landscape industry, for government agencies and for local governments in public works and parks departments, water authorities or and nature conservation bodies.
Their work encompasses a wide range of activities, including the following:- Landscaping tasks for urban land use; planning and sectoral planning
- Urban planning and village redevelopment planning
- Project planning and design
- Environmental planning
- Planning and programmes for leisure parks and large-scale landscape remediation
- Green and open space planning as part of urban land use planning
- Planning for national parks, biosphere and nature reserves, as well as landscape protection areas
- Competencies
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Generic competencies
Generic competencies are the skills that graduates acquire regardless of the specific course or field of study. The generic competencies established by the UPC are capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability and social commitment, knowledge of a foreign language (preferably English), teamwork and proper use of information resources.
Specific competences
- Ability to undertake professional jobs in the landscape field in which strategic decisions have to be made. In particular, ability to undertake tasks that require a high capacity to analyse and resolve complex landscape and spatial problems.
- Ability to carry out research and knowledge transfer in the professional sector.
- Ability to begin an academic career in the field of research and specifically to begin a doctorate in an international-level landscape programme.
Specific skills
- Ability to design and manage the landscape.
- Ability to advise on plans, projects and policies linked to the field of landscape intervention.
- ETSAB and EEABB, Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage Versailles, France.
- Academy Van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK), the Netherlands.
- Edinburgh College of Arts (ESALA-ECA), United kingdom.
- Leibniz Universitat Hannover (LUH), Fakultat für Architektur und Landschaft, Germany.
More information
- UPC school
- Barcelona School of Agri-Food and Biosystems Engineering (EEABB)
Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) - Academic coordinator
- Enric Batlle Durany
- Academic calendar
- General academic calendar for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees courses
- Academic regulations
- Academic regulations for master's degree courses at the UPC
Pre-enrolment
Pre-enrolment for this master’s degree is currently closed.
Use the “Request information” form to ask for information on upcoming pre-enrolment periods.