Golf Course Design Schools

Michigan State University

• Michigan State University offers two degrees related to the practice of golf course design. At the undergraduate level, Michigan State offers a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Arts in Environmental Design. Both degree programs are fully accredited by the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board. The programs focus on five primary aspects of landscape architecture: design, site to regional scale, site engineering, cultural and human aspects, and sustainable issues. The bachelor's degree program requires 56 credit hours of upper-division courses in the field, while the master's program requires 33 credit hours in courses focused on theory, inter-disciplinary problem solving, graphic, oral and written communication, and technological knowledge.

  Michigan State University

  School of Planning, Design and Construction

  101 Human Ecology

  East Lansing, MI 48823

  517-432-0704

  spdc.msu.edu

Cornell University

• Cornell University is one of the nation's top architecture schools. Architect magazine ranked the Cornell University undergraduate program as the second-highest rated program in the nation in 2008. Cornell tied for third at the graduate level. The undergraduate program had been ranked No. 1 from 2005 to 2007. Cornell offers a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture and a three-year Master of Landscape Architecture degree. Areas of study related to golf course design include courses in site engineering and construction, landscape representation, grounding in landscape architecture, medium of landscape, creating the urban Eden, landscape preservation and integrating theory and practice.

  Cornell University

  Landscape Architecture

  440 Kennedy Hall

  Ithaca, NY 14853

  607-255-9552

  landscape.cornell.edu

University of Massachusetts

• The University of Massachusetts at Amherst offers degrees through its Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. The department offers several related degree programs include the Associate of Science in Landscape Contracting, Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design, B.S. in Landscape Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Regional Planning. Undergraduate courses include fields of study such as recreation and open space design, landscape planning, designing with plants, designing with landform, places and spaces in context and residential garden design. Graduate courses include many of the same areas of study in addition to courses in site engineering, landscape patterns and processes, computers in landscape architecture and cultural landscapes.

  University of Massachusetts

  Environmental Design

  109 Hills North

  121 N Pleasant St.

  Amherst, MA 01002

  413-545-6621

  www.umass.edu