Study landscape architecture or horticulture and combine your interests in art, science, and environmental sustainability!
By earning your degree in landscape architecture or horticulture at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, you gain the knowledge, skills, confidence and professionalism to have a successful, meaningful career in a green profession. Make a positive impact upon the environment and people!
Tyler’s horticulture degrees teach you the art and science of cultivating plants, and how plants and their environments interact . You learn about growing and using plants through a broad curriculum in core sciences, plant identification, propagation and production, public horticulture, and more.
Tyler’s 2-year associate’s degree in horticulture teaches you the best practices in general horticulture or horticulture business..
By focusing your education on field-based and hands-on learning as well as research, your faculty-mentors prepare you for a variety of horticulture careers.
Your horticulture classes include topics like these.
Horticultural science
Landscape plant material
Plant propagation
Landscape management techniques
Entomology and plant pathology
Tyler’s 4-year degree program puts you on track for hundreds of different fast-growing, green-collar careers in production horticulture, public horticulture, natural lands management and other sustainability-focused fields.
This broad major focuses on ecology and the study of everything from botany and plant physiology to plant production, greenhouse management, soil science and horticultural therapy.
Rooted in a strong scientific foundation, your horticulture classes include field-based work and hands-on experiences. You will learn and experiment in classrooms, labs, greenhouses, as well as in the gardens and natural areas of Temple University’s expansive, suburban Ambler Campus.
Our program takes advantage of Temple being located near more than 30 different public gardens. This means you can network with professionals from some of the most historic and famous botanical institutions.
Take a deep breath and appreciate the living systems around you — where you deepen your knowledge of the natural world and practice cultivating plants and environments for everyone’s benefit.
Learn to reimagine built and natural spaces based on an understanding of ecological systems and cultural needs. Bring your creativity and leadership into communities that need new greenways or degraded landscapes to be transformed or restored. Study holistic and sustainable ways to improve ecosystems and design environmental amenities.
Accredited by the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board (LAAB), Tyler’s 4-year landscape architecture degree program centers on academic training and preparing graduates for professional work. You learn to analyze, plan, design, manage and nurture built and natural environments with a focus on climate action, sustainability and ecological restoration. You get opportunities to practice designing outdoor spaces at a variety of scales in public and private locations — ranging from residences and institutions to regional planning and urban design.
You can choose from 3 degree pathways.
Standard curriculum, which includes a wide selection of elective courses
A degree plan with a horticulture concentration
Begin your first year in architecture and transfer to the bachelor's degree in landscape architecture.
All 3 pathways cover landscape history and theory as well as engineering and construction technology. All 3 pathways also allow you to explore a broad range of current topics.
Sustainable land use planning and design
Land and biodiversity conservation
Climate change
Social justice
Landscape architecture coursework and studio classes challenge you to hone skills required for professional practice — drawing, research, writing, visual representation and communication, model-making and digital processes.
You gain access to world-renowned design firms and organizations, as well as robust faculty, alumni and professional networks, which position you for internships and employment opportunities.
Tyler encourages you to participate in summer and semester-long internships. Our active community of landscape architecture alumni and professionals in the region provide internship opportunities.
Tyler’s BSLA degree program prepares you to sit for the Landscape Architecture Registration Examination (LARE) to earn the professional licensure required to enter the landscape architecture profession.
Tyler also offers 4 minors and 5 certificate programs in landscape and horticultural topics. This opens opportunities for more students so that they can add attention-getting content to their degrees.
Tyler also offers 4 minors and 5 certificate programs in landscape and horticultural topics. This opens opportunities for students to add relevant content to their degrees.
Tyler offers a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture. Learn more about furthering your education here.
Tyler designed these degree programs to expand your perspectives on how your discipline works alongside those from allied fields.
Whether you choose to study horticulture or landscape architecture, some of your required courses overlap with the other disciplines and you will have opportunities to engage with and learn from students across Tyler’s many disciplines.
Your academic experiences at Tyler model how things work in the broader professional world. We think it’s the best way to learn (and succeed).
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture features its own admissions team, who can provide you with the information you need to make the best decision for your educational and career goals.
To support your educational goals, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia is happy to share information about scholarships available to students in our horticulture and landscape architecture degree programs.
Landscape Architecture Foundation Scholarships
American Society for Landscape Architecture
Garden Club of America Scholarships
Tyler gives you so many ways and places to grow academically and personally. You build professional knowledge and skills by practicing the work you will do in your career and digging through possible solutions to any challenge.
Temple’s urban main campus in Philadelphia — a top city in the nation for green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) projects — includes design studios, classrooms, digital fabrication tools, a woodshop, AR/VR design stations and more.
Temple’s suburban Ambler Campus is home to a 187-acre arboretum, greenhouses, gardens, labs and studios, a design build studio workshop, and a technology center with computers, printers, plotters, software and 3D printing capabilities.
Inside Tyler’s design studio classrooms and technology labs you learn to plan and execute whatever your creative mind imagines. Exhibition, lecture, and studio review spaces allow students to engage with one another and participate in extracurricular professional and learning activities. You also have access to The Ambler Arboretum of Temple University and its permanent collection of plants, gardens and a searchable database of what grows on the Ambler Campus grounds.
Gain hands-on experience that allows you to create, build and showcase your skills via Tyler’s Design-Build Studio. Projects include designing exhibits for the Philadelphia Flower Show and built spaces integrated into the landscape at Temple’s Ambler Campus.
Tyler maintains strong relationships with community partners, including landscape architecture firms, local greenhouses and plant producers, and agencies that care for public parks and gardens. These connections, along with our active alumni, provide internship and job opportunities.
Hear from our alumni and current students what they love about Tyler, what they learned, how they grew professionally, and why they remain thankful for the opportunity to study here.
“I enrolled at Temple unsure of what I wanted my future to look like - and four years later, I left with a clear purpose and a degree in Landscape Architecture from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. The supportive environment, including the dedicated faculty and close-knit studio culture, gave me space to grow, take risks, and explore who I am as a designer. My time spent there still shapes the way I approach my work today.”
Feel inspired by the creativity, innovation, and leadership of your future classmates and peers.
BS Landscape Architecture '23 Student
BS Landscape Architecture '26 Student
BS Landscape Architecture Student
BS Landscape Architecture '25 Student
Connect with your classmates at Tyler and with working pros in the community through student chapters of several professional organizations.
Temple University's student chapter of the National ASLA organization, whose mission is to advance landscape architecture through advocacy, communication, education, and fellowship.
Pi Alpha Xi is the national honor society for horticulture. Since its founding, it has grown to 36 chapters at baccalaureate-granting institutions. Its mission is to promote scholarship, fellowship, professional leadership, and the enrichment of human life through plants.
SER advances the science, practice, and policy of ecological restoration to sustain biodiversity, improve resilience in a changing climate, and re-establish an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture.
Tyler’s horticulture and landscape architecture faculty remain engaged in multi-disciplinary built environment practice and innovative research. Committed to one-on-one mentorship, they help guide your education and professional development.
Tyler's architecture and landscape architecture programs require all students to have a laptop that meets certain specs that best run the latest software used in the professional environment.
The landscape architecture and horticulture degree programs at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture hold accreditation from the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board (LAAB).
In addition to Tyler’s specialized admissions team, you’re welcome to contact these landscape architecture and horticulture program leaders.
