Major News for Outdoor Lovers
Dream of running a landscape company? Have an eye for design and a drive to create with nature?
All of the above? We have a degree for you.
Landscape Contracting & Management
Bring landscape designs to life and keep them healthy. Manage the crews, equipment, and systems behind beautiful green spaces.
Landscape Architecture
Use creativity, technology, and science to design thoughtful spaces that connect culture, nature, and art (without the “starving artist” lifestyle).
Dual Degree
Landscape
Architecture &
Landscape
Contracting
Design a landscape and install it, too. Work for yourself or a major company. A dual degree opens as any options as possible in the landscape field.
Concentrate on Your Future
What do natural habitats and $1B landscape firms have in common? It takes expertise to make them thrive. Our concentrations expand career paths (and earning potential).
Ecosystem Management
Concentration
Tap into the growing field of habitat restoration and ecological design with a curriculum that emphasizes environmental policy and science. Work for a government agency, a nonprofit organization, or yourself.
Landscape Business Management
Concentration
Attract the attention of some of the nation's largest landscape firms or launch your own company with a curriculum that includes courses in management, HR, marketing, and entrepreneurship (no suit required).
Work that's creatively fulfilling, highly in-demand, and improves communities? The perfect career does exist.
Graduates in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design degree programs design, build and manage thoughtful outdoor spaces for communities, commercial developments, and athletics.
Landscape Architecture is a highly creative career that blends expertise in discipline areas like STEM, art, and architecture. Landscape Contracting and Management is a business-oriented career that combines project management, plant care, and resource management for a wide range of clients.
For high school students who love art but struggle with the ROI of college costs, landscape architecture and landscape contracting offer sought-after careers with a variety of pathways open to graduates.
You don’t have to dream your perfect career — we’ll show you how you can build it.
Graduates in Landscape Contracting and Management create the outdoor spaces we move through every day. Careers take graduates from entrepreneurship to construction project management all the way to Fortune 500 companies in the specialization.
Students at Mississippi State participate in national competitions and get hands-on experience at internships across the country. With guidance and industry connections from University professors, graduates work in major urban areas, in suburban residential developments, or in innovative ecological projects.
The question isn't what can you do— it's how far do you want to go?
Graduates in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Contracting & Management programs can look forward to rewarding careers — creatively and financially. Landscape Architecture and Contracting & Management firms thrive in urban, suburban, or rural markets across the country.
Career growth can take someone to international conferences, the executive suite, or major cities. Landscape degree programs prepare graduates for in-demand professions with valuable skills.
Questions and Answers
Why these majors?
Thinking of majoring in art, business, or horticulture? Unlinke more general degrees, our majors prepare for high-paying landscape design, management, or habitat restoration positions right out of college.
Why get a Dual Degree?
Earn two degrees in just one extra year when you major in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Contracting & Management. Landscape Contractors can implement designs, and many start their own design/build companies.
Will I be employable?
Very. The landscape industry is quickly growing, with more jobs than people. Skilled designers, contractors, and ecosystem managers are in high demand.
Can I do both concentrations?
Landscape Contracting and Dual Degree majors may choose one concentration (Ecosystem Management or Landscape Business Management), and minor in the other.
Why MSU?
Our name gets you noticed. Our nationwide internship opportunities and competitive concentrations means our graduates are sought after by the top employers in the landscape field.
Graduate with a diploma – and a resume.
Mississippi State Department of Landscape Architecture students begin major program work on Day One. By the time they graduate, a student has completed 3 years of internships, often gaining work experience at firms across the country. Students love the hands-on instruction from faculty, industry connections, and participation in professional competitions.
