Does anyone know anything about this? There is one through the Horticulture dept and another in the Design. Im looking at the Horticulture and its pretty interesting. Any advice?

1/23/2009 9:37:40 PM

Well, landscape architecture degrees through the college of design are pretty sweet, you'll be busting your ass off in studio just about every night of the week to get your projects looking really nice, and after this degree you can stick around for another year, get yourself an architecture degree, and go into a field that pays less than others but offers immense job satisfaction. It's also a career path that'll be deflated until the credit markets rebound and the housing markets/construction of commercial buildings picks back up.

So if you think things will be better in 5 years, or that you're even remotely qualified to get into the Design school here at NCSU (believe it or not the Architecture program here is well-qualified, well-rated, and highly competitive, which means it's hard as hell to get into), then go for it.

Oh and uh... No comment on the horticulture department one, I'm completely unfamiliar with that.

1/23/2009 11:47:08 PM

all i know is that at my parents old house we paid someone $10k for just the plan and to oversee the landscaping to make sure they stuck to it. sounds like $bank whenever things finally rebound. i'd imagine that at the top the market is still there, just a really tough time to enter it.

are you looking at undergrad? isn't our grad program for this supposed to be really good?

1/25/2009 2:01:01 AM

Take a class with Nilda. She's awesome.

1/26/2009 3:48:00 PM

i took the honors specific design version of this course... very "alternative" teaching style, and though it was interesting, it wasnt for me

if you got any questions, PM me, though this was 7 years ago so it might be a little fuzzy

1/28/2009 11:50:22 PM

the horticulture program is Landscape design. In the end you are technician level professional. You can't sign-off on projects etc. You can basic landscaping though. Landscape Architecture in the design school is the real deal. Afterwards you can get your RLA and sign-off on projects, do commercial design, etc.

Basically Landscape Design : Landscape Architecture :: Technician : Engineer

Engineers & LA's are on the same professional level (professional exams, societies, state licensed, etc).

Go for LA. It's a rough 5 years or so but worth it over the LD garbage.

[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 1:10 PM. Reason : .]

1/29/2009 1:08:21 PM