Sign inJoin now

LI Accredited Higher Education Courses

A quality guarantee

Choosing a Landscape Institute-accredited course means you can be confident that your degree meets rigorous professional standards. Accredited programmes are mapped to the LI’s Competency Framework and are regularly reviewed to ensure they deliver the knowledge, skills, and experience you need for a successful career in landscape practice.

How accreditation standards are maintained

To ensure quality and relevance across all accredited programme, the Landscape Institute maintains a robust governance and review process.

Every accredited programme is supported by a PRG comprised of practising landscape professionals. The PRG acts as a critical friend and sounding board for the university, ensuring that graduate outcomes align with professional expectations and that the curriculum remains current and industry relevant.

When a degree programme is proposed for accreditation, the LI arranges a site visit by a panel of LI staff and practising professionals. They review teaching, resources, curriculum content, staffing, quality assurance, and alignment with the LI’s Competency Framework.

Accredited courses must demonstrate that they have the necessary staffing, infrastructure, and quality assurance mechanisms. They should deliver foundation professional knowledge, generic skills for lifelong learning, and a clear pathway into the profession.

Accreditation is not perpetual. Programmes undergo periodic reviews to renew accreditation status, maintaining currency with evolving professional practice, sustainability challenges, and technological advances in the landscape sector.

Accredited institutions must commit to working in ongoing partnership with the LI and the profession, for example, through curriculum development, providing student opportunities, and feedback loops.

Accredited courses we support for academic year 2025/26

There are courses for all areas of landscape, from landscape architecture and urban design to environmental conservation and ecology. Each university course has its own focus and selling points – so now’s the time to do your research. All the courses listed here are accredited by the Landscape Institute for the academic year 2025/26. Accreditation is a mark of quality, so it helps you see which courses will best prepare you for a career in landscape.