Arcadia Landscape Architecture Scholarship in Landscape Architecture Design
For Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander student commencing a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Design; worth up to $5,000.
Range of criteria
AU$44,160 (2023 annual)
The Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design is about envisioning, investigating and proposing better ways of living in a complex and rapidly changing world.
RMIT offers a distinguished professional education consisting of a Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design degree (3 years) and an accredited Master of Landscape Architecture degree (2 years). Our degrees are recognised as a world-class facility which fosters design knowledge, critical thinking, and design advocacy through innovative teaching and research.
Your studies will centre around design studios which provide a unique way of exploring ideas and creative practice.
Design studio typically makes up half the degree each semester and is taught in small groups. You will focus on a particular design theme and project each semester. After the first semester, you’ll select from a range of studio offerings and learn specific design techniques to develop ideas and outcomes in relation to a project brief. Studios are vertically integrated, i.e. grouped with students from various year levels.
Design studios are supported by core subjects to develop specialised skills and knowledge in the following three areas:
Learn how to link design thinking, physical prototyping and digital experimentation to represent landscape in two, three and four dimensions.
Develop skills in analysing and constructing landscapes through mapping, modelling and fabrication.
Interrogate design ideas in history and theory through creative and critical thinking and drawing.
Acclaimed and award winning international and Australian landscape architects, architects, urban designers and experts in related fields are consistently involved with the teaching and research projects undertaken within this degree.
Design studios provide strong engagement with industry. Some projects may involve clients or actual projects where you will develop your design proposals within a scenario-based, simulated design practice environment. Professional designers may also form part of your review panel at the end of semester.
Many public lectures are also held throughout the year, led by prominent local and international landscape architects and urban designers.
RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice.
International exchange options are available to Universities in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, the USA and across Asia.
A range of design studios also offer travelling opportunities overseas to engage in field work, workshops and design projects. Previous locations include Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, France, Spain and Uganda.
International Internships
Internship placements are offered to selected students in both the Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees each year, allowing students to gain work experiences at acclaimed and award-winning practices overseas. Current internship partners include Stoss LU in Boston and EMF in Spain.
RMIT offers a range of opportunities for our students to study abroad through global work, exchange and study experiences with over 165 partner universities worldwide.
The knowledge and skills you will acquire throughout this degree and how they can be applied in your career are described in the learning outcomes.
Within the degree you have the opportunity to engage in two electives to expand your knowledge and skills relevant to your interests and future career ambitions.
You can select from landscape specific offerings within the landscape architecture degree or from a range of University wide electives choices.
Choose a plan below to find out more about the subjects you will study and the course structure.
If you are eligible to apply via VTAC, copy and paste the below code into VTAC search.
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Note: International student visa holders can only study full-time.
If you are eligible to apply via VTAC, copy and paste the below code into VTAC search.
Please ensure that you have checked the admissions requirements and apply page before applying.
The Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design is a stand-alone award that provides employment options for those who seek to work in landscape design, or design more generally, in roles that do not require professional registration.
To be eligible to become accredited as a landscape architect you must complete the Master of Landscape Architecture.
Landscape architects work in fields such as site design, urban design, park and recreational design, regional planning, ecological design and restoration.
To be eligible for accreditation as a Landscape Architect you must continue your studies and complete the Master of Landscape Architecture degree (MC172). MC172 satisfies the academic requirement to apply for registration as a practising Landscape Architect with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) (Landscape Architecture’s professional accrediting body).
You must have successfully completed an Australian Year 12 (or equivalent qualification).
Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL, or equivalent studies.
Entry to this program is competitive. Applicants are ranked and selected in order of merit based on the assessment of their selection task.
You must complete and submit the Landscape Architecture selection task.
Applications are assessed in the order that they are received until the selection task dates below, if places are still available.
For your best chance at admission into this program, you are encouraged to apply as early as possible.
Graduates of RMIT's Advanced Diploma of Building Design (Architectural) and Diploma of Conservation and Land Management are exempted from submitting the selection task and guaranteed entry into this bachelor program.
If you are applying via VTAC, you must complete and submit the Landscape Architecture selection task by the following dates:
VTAC applicants | Register and submit the selection task by |
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November round (Non year 12 applicants only) | 30 September 2022 |
December/January rounds (All applicants) |
18 November 2022 |
February rounds (if places are available) | 10 February 2023 |
You must complete and submit your direct application. The link to submit your selection task will appear on the applicant dashboard after you have submitted your application. Please see the Apply page for information on eligibility to apply direct.
Applicant type | Register and submit the selection task by |
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Direct applicants | 24 February 2023 |
Outline how you intend to use your current skills and capabilities and/or past experience/s to support your joining of the landscape architectural design community. Your skills, capabilities and experiences may be drawn from previous study including secondary school or from life, work, volunteer experience or a combination (maximum 250 words).
For this exercise you are required to identify a landscape site which is of interest to you and respond to it by presenting ideas and visions for its future.
This may be a landscape site which has been designed and constructed already, it may be public or private, it may be vibrant and active or it may be drab and lifeless. The site may be fully functional or undefined in terms of use. It may be fully vegetated or entirely constructed – above all you must be familiar with this place.
Your design ideas may be informed by existing conditions and/or opportunities you identify within or around the landscape site. Alternatively, you can engage with current or recurring issues facing society or the built environment as a way of expressing your ideas about design.
You will be required to submit responses to the following questions in relation to your design ideas exercise (maximum 100 words per question).
Take or obtain a photograph of this landscape site and print at A4 (you may choose to then mount this image on an A3 sheet).
Using black pens and or pencils, draw over this image to suggest how you might change this landscape. If you have mounted the original image on A3 you may use the margins also for drawing on. Please note that we are looking for your landscape design ideas, not your drawing skills.
Scan your image to make one PDF in either A4 or A3 size.
Upload your image as a single PDF (maximum size 5MB). Alternatively, you can provide a URL to your work. Please provide a username and/or password if applicable.
Some applicants will be selected based on their selection task and will not be required to attend a folio presentation. If further information is needed to make a selection decision, you will be invited to a folio presentation.
Folio presentations will be held in October (VTAC November round) and November/December (VTAC December/January rounds).
For all subsequent rounds and direct applicants, folio presentations will be arranged after you have submitted your application.
An advisory letter indicating the outcome of your selection task will be sent from November (VTAC November round) and from December (VTAC December/January rounds).
Please select the highest level of education you have or will be completing in order to find out the selection criteria that applies to you, in addition to meeting the above entry requirements.
You must have successfully completed an Australian Year 12 (or equivalent senior secondary school) qualification.
You must have successfully completed an Australian Certificate IV or above (or equivalent).
You may satisfy the academic requirements by completing the STAT multiple choice.
If you are applying to RMIT as an applicant with vocational education training, you may sit the STAT multiple choice if you:
STAT results are valid for two years prior to the commencement of study and can be used to meet Year 12 English prerequisites. You are still required to meet all other program prerequisites or equivalents.
Learn more about RMIT STAT results including minimum STAT scores required to meet prerequisites.
You must have successfully completed at least two courses (subjects) in an Australian bachelor degree or four courses (subjects) in an Australian associate degree, or overseas equivalent.
You may satisfy the academic requirements by completing the STAT multiple choice. If you are applying to RMIT as an applicant with higher education study, you may sit the STAT multiple choice if you:
are 19 years of age or over as of 1 January in the year in which you will start your studies and
have not been enrolled in secondary studies for at least two years and
have no prior secondary school (Year 12), VET studies, HE studies or relevant work experience that can be considered for entry, or these do not meet the minimum academic requirements for the program
STAT results are valid for two years prior to the commencement of study and can be used to meet Year 12 English prerequisites. You are still required to meet all other program prerequisites or equivalents.
Learn more about RMIT STAT results including minimum STAT scores required to meet prerequisites.
You must have successfully completed an Australian Year 12 (or equivalent qualification) and meet the stated prerequisites. You may satisfy the academic requirements by completing the STAT multiple choice.
You may satisfy the academic requirements by completing the STAT multiple choice. If you are applying to RMIT as an applicant with work or life experience, you may sit the STAT multiple choice if you:
are 19 years of age or over as of 1 January in the year in which you will start your studies and
have not been enrolled in secondary studies for at least two years and
have no prior secondary school (Year 12), VET studies, HE studies or relevant work experience that can be considered for entry, or these do not meet the minimum academic requirements for the program
STAT results are valid for two years prior to the commencement of study and can be used to meet Year 12 English prerequisites. You are still required to meet all other program prerequisites or equivalents.
Learn more about RMIT STAT results including minimum STAT scores required to meet prerequisites.
You must have successfully :
OR
Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL, or equivalent studies.
Entry to this program is competitive. Applicants are ranked and selected in order of merit based on the assessment of their selection task.
Selection task details and submission dates will be available on 1 May 2023.
Please select the highest level of education you have or will be completing in order to find out the selection criteria that applies to you, in addition to meeting the above entry requirements.
If you are in this category, you are not eligible to apply for this program in this intake.
You must have successfully completed an Advanced Diploma of Building Design (Architectural) or Diploma of Conservation and Ecosystem Management.
You may satisfy the academic requirements by completing the STAT multiple choice.
If you are applying to RMIT as an applicant with vocational education training, you may sit the STAT multiple choice if you:
STAT results are valid for two years prior to the commencement of study and can be used to meet Year 12 English prerequisites. You are still required to meet all other program prerequisites or equivalents.
Learn more about RMIT STAT results including minimum STAT scores required to meet prerequisites.
You must have successfully completed at least one year of tertiary study, comparable to the first year of this program, undertaken in a design discipline (e.g architecture, interior design, industrial design, landscape architecture, graphic design, art or fashion design).
You may satisfy the academic requirements by completing the STAT multiple choice. If you are applying to RMIT as an applicant with higher education study, you may sit the STAT multiple choice if you:
are 19 years of age or over as of 1 January in the year in which you will start your studies and
have not been enrolled in secondary studies for at least two years and
have no prior secondary school (Year 12), VET studies, HE studies or relevant work experience that can be considered for entry, or these do not meet the minimum academic requirements for the program
STAT results are valid for two years prior to the commencement of study and can be used to meet Year 12 English prerequisites. You are still required to meet all other program prerequisites or equivalents.
Learn more about RMIT STAT results including minimum STAT scores required to meet prerequisites.
If you are in this category, you are not eligible to apply for this program in this intake.
View the following videos for some practical application advice:
Here's some advice for preparing folios and pre-selection kits to help make the process easier.
Wondering how an art and design selection interview works? Here's everything you need to know.
View the ATAR profile and selection rank from students offered a place into this program wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in the most relevant recent intake period.
The student profile provides insight into the likely peer group for this program.
*ATAR refers to the lowest selection rank to which an offer was made (including consideration of any adjustments) for current and recent Year 12 applicants.
RMIT is committed to providing transparency to the admissions process. In line with this commitment, we provide you with information that will help in making informed choices about your undergraduate study options. Find out more about admission to RMIT.
You need to satisfy all of the following requirements to be considered for entry into this degree.
You must have successfully completed an Australian Year 12 or an equivalent senior secondary school qualification with a minimum average of 70% (see calculator below).
Equivalent qualifications may also include completion of the RMIT Foundation Studies program or a recognised post secondary diploma in the relevant discipline with the required grades.
Meeting the minimum academic requirements does not guarantee entry. Your application will still need to be assessed and accepted.
If you are applying for July intake, you must have successfully completed at least one year of tertiary study, comparable to the first year of this program, undertaken in a design discipline (e.g architecture, interior design, industrial design, landscape architecture, graphic design, art or fashion design) OR completed an RMIT Advanced Diploma of Building Design (Architectural) or Diploma of Conservation and Ecosystem Management.
There are no prerequisite subjects required for entry into this qualification.
All applicants are required to complete and submit a selection task for this program. See below for full selection task details.
To study this course you will need to complete one of the following English proficiency tests:
For detailed information on English language requirements and other proficiency tests recognised by RMIT, visit English language requirements and equivalency information.
Don't meet the English language test scores? Complete an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Advanced Plus Certificate at RMIT English Worldwide.
If you are applying via VTAC you must complete and submit the Landscape Architecture selection task by the following dates:
VTAC round | Register and submit the selection task by |
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December/January Round 1 (all applicants) |
18 November 2022 |
January subsequent rounds (if places are available) |
19 January 2023 |
An applicant statement outlining how you intend to use your current skills and capabilities and/or past experience/s to support your joining of the landscape architectural design community.
Your skills, capabilities and experiences may be drawn from previous study including secondary school or from life, work, volunteer experience or a combination.
(maximum 250 words)
For this exercise you are required to identify a landscape site which is of interest to you and respond to it by presenting ideas and visions for its future.
This may be a landscape site which has been designed and constructed already, it may be public or private, it may be vibrant and active or it may be drab and lifeless. The site may be fully functional or undefined in terms of use. It may be fully vegetated or entirely constructed – above all you must be familiar with this place.
You will be required to submit responses to the following questions in relation to your design ideas exercise.
Maximum 100 words per question.
Some applicants will be selected based on their selection task and will not be required to attend a folio presentation. If further information is needed to make a selection decision, you will be invited to a folio presentation
Folio presentations will be held in December.
For all subsequent rounds, folio presentations will be arranged after you have submitted your application.
Advisory letters indicating the outcome of your selection task will be sent from December.
Selection task details and submission dates will be available early August 2023.
View the following videos for some practical application advice:
Here's some advice for preparing folios and pre-selection kits to help make the process easier.
Wondering how an art and design selection interview works? Here's everything you need to know.
Pre-selection kit: You are required to submit a completed pre-selection kit (PDF 129kb) along with your application.
You may be required to present your folio at an assessment session. If you are living outside Melbourne, this can be conducted via email, phone or Skype.
This course offers pathway options. If you don’t meet the entry requirements, a formal pathway might be your way in.
Credit, recognition of prior learning, professional experience and accreditation from a professional body can reduce the duration of your study by acknowledging your earlier, relevant experience.
Credit and exemptions will be assessed consistent with the principles of the RMIT Credit Policy.
Successful completion of the Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design with a grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.5 out of 4 will guarantee a place in the Master of Landscape Architecture.
If you have successfully completed the Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design with a grade point average (GPA) of less than 2.5 out of 4, you may still apply for a place in the Master of Landscape Architecture. You will be required to undertake additional selection tasks (such as submitting a pre-selection kit and/or attending an interview). Selection via this route is competitive and not guaranteed.
You may apply for entry to the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture when you successfully complete the Diploma of Conservation and Ecosystem Management. If you are successful in receiving an offer you will receive 36 credit points of advanced standing.
Alternatively, you can gain entry from RMIT Foundation Studies or a range of vocational study programs.
RMIT has pathway arrangements with many partner institutions around the world.
If your institution has a pathway arrangement with RMIT you may be able to receive credit and reduce the time it will take to complete your preferred RMIT program.
Find out if your institution has a pathway arrangement with RMIT
If you have qualifications from an institution that is not an RMIT partner, credit into your RMIT program will be assessed on a case by case basis.
Credit may reduce the duration of your study by acknowledging your earlier, relevant study experience.
When you are submitting an application, please indicate that you want to be considered for credit and provide detailed course syllabus (also known as course outline), outlining volume of learning, course content and weekly topics, learning objectives/outcomes, assessment types and their weightings, and reference to the learning resources such as prescribed textbooks and recommended readings.
When you successfully complete the Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design and achieve a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.5, you are guaranteed entry into the Master of Landscape Architecture. If you achieve below the minimum GPA, you may still apply and will need to submit a folio. Applicants will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
When you successfully complete this program, you may be eligible for entry into an RMIT Honours or Postgraduate degree.
The Commonwealth supported place (CSP) and Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) rates for 2023 have been delayed by the Australian Government. The first year indicative tuition rates are expected later in the year and will be published when they are available.
In 2022, the annual student contribution amount (tuition fee) you will pay for a standard year of full-time study is between AU$3,985 to AU$14,630*.
Amounts quoted are indicative fees per annum, and are based on a standard year of full-time study (96 credit points). A proportionate fee applies for more or less than the full-time study load.
Fees are adjusted on an annual basis and these fees should only be used as a guide.
You may be eligible to apply for a HECS-HELP loan, which can be used to defer payment of up to the full amount of your student contribution fees. You may also be eligible to apply to defer payment of your SSAF through the SA-HELP loan scheme.
Learn more about fees for undergraduate study.
For information on how to pay your fees or how to apply for a refund, please see Paying your fees and applying for refunds.
From 2022, there are new government rules about eligibility for higher education student funding as part of the Australian Government’s Job-ready Graduates legislation. If you're starting a program in or after 2022 and are enrolled in a Commonwealth supported place (CSP) or have a HECS-HELP or FEE-HELP loan, these changes affect you. For details, please see Low completion rate and government funding.
The Commonwealth supported place (CSP) rates for 2023 have been delayed by the Australian Government. The first year indicative tuition rates are expected later in the year and will be published when they are available.
If you are offered a Commonwealth supported place, your tuition fees are subsidised by the Australian Government.
Your share of the fee (student contribution) is set on an annual basis by the government and is determined by the discipline areas (bands) of your individual enrolled courses, not the overall program.
The Australian Government has introduced changes to university funding and student contribution fees under its Job-ready Graduates Package.
The fees in the table below apply to students who commenced their program in 2022. Fees for continuing students are available at fees for Commonwealth supported students.
Each course (subject) falls into a band. The band determines the student contribution amount for the course.
Amounts listed in the table below are based on a standard, full-time study load (96 credit points per year) with all courses in the same band. A proportionate fee applies for more or less than the full-time study load or for enrolment in courses (subjects) from a combination of bands.
You can learn how to calculate your exact tuition fees for units from different bands at Fees for Commonwealth supported students.
Student contribution band by course (subject) |
Maximum annual student contribution amount (per EFTSL) in 2022 |
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Education, Postgraduate Clinical Psychology, English, Mathematics, Statistics, Nursing, Indigenous and Foreign Languages, Agriculture | $3,985 per standard year $498 per standard (12 credit point) course |
Allied Health, Other Health, Built Environment, Computing, Visual and Performing Arts, Professional Pathway Psychology, Professional Pathway Social Work, Engineering, Surveying, Environmental Studies, Science, Pathology | $8,021 per standard year $1,002 per standard (12 credit point) course |
Dentistry, Medicine, Veterinary Science | $11,401 per standard year $1,425 per standard (12 credit point) course |
Law, Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce, Communications, Society and Culture | $14,630 per standard year $1,828 per standard (12 credit point) course |
The Australian Government provides financial assistance via the HECS-HELP loan scheme, which allows eligible students (such as Australian citizens or holders of an Australian permanent humanitarian visa) to defer payment of up to the full amount of their student contribution.
You may be eligible to apply to defer payment of the Student services and amenities fee (SSAF) through the SA-HELP loan scheme. If you use SA-HELP, the amount will be added to your accumulated HELP debt.
If your FEE-HELP and/or SA-HELP loan application is successful, the Australian Government will pay RMIT, on your behalf, up to 100% of your fees. This amount will become part of your accumulated HELP debt.
You only start repaying your accumulated HELP debt to the Australian Government once you earn above the minimum income threshold for repayment, which is set each year by the Australian Government (this also applies if you are still studying). The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will calculate your compulsory repayment for the year and include this on your income tax notice.
For more information about loan repayment options see Commonwealth assistance (HELP loans) or Study Assist.
*The Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) rates for 2023 have been delayed by the Australian Government. The fee information will be published when they are available.
In addition to tuition fees, you will be charged an annual student services and amenities fee (SSAF), which is used to maintain and enhance services and amenities that improve your experience as an RMIT student.
The SSAF is calculated based on your enrolment load and the maximum fee for 2022* is $315.
For more information about calculating your actual SSAF see Paying SSAF.
You may also be required to purchase other items related to your program, including field trips, textbooks and equipment. These additional fees and expenses vary from program to program.
For Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander student commencing a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Design; worth up to $5,000.
RMIT awards more than 2000 scholarships every year to recognise academic achievement and assist students from a variety of backgrounds.
The annual tuition fee for 2023 is AU$44,160.
The total indicative tuition fee for 2023 commencement is AU$132,480.
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Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.