Master's students in the Landscape Architecture Department are enrolled in either the First Professional Degree Program or the Advanced Studies Program. First Professional Degree Prgram students do not have an undergraduate professional degree in landscape architecture, whereas students in the Advanced Studies Program have an undergraduate professional degree in landscape architecture. Both programs are designed to allow students flexibility in their graduate studies, however the first professional degree program is structured to ensure that students are exposed to the range and depth of information that is central to the profession of landscape architecture.

The program is stuctured so that the student must take an introductory sequence of required courses. When the student moves into the advanced stages of the program, her or his curriculum is established with the advice of the student's Graduate Committee Chair and the Graduate Program Director.