Undergraduate students may enter the program as freshmen or may transfer to the program from another college-level program.
Most transfer students enter the program at the second year level.
Advance transfer students must have completed landscape architecture coursework and are placed into an appropriate level in the program. Graduate students who enter the program with a Bachelor's degree which is not an accredited degree in landscape architecture must first complete the 2nd Bachelor's degree program before moving on to the masters level curriculum. The 2nd Bachelor's program provides a very similar core curriculum to the undergraduate program. Because graduate students are not required by the university to take general education classes, we offer a very intense first year program geared toward accelerating the graduate students in their professional education by the end of that introductory year. By that point the 2nd BLA students have established a fundamental introductory understanding of design, media, plant materials, site analysis and landscape technologies.