Master of Urban Horticulture
Master of Urban Horticulture
We live in a world that’s increasingly urbanised. Our cities keep growing and our green spaces need to grow with them. Maintaining and improving vegetation in our cities will provide the social, environmental, economic and health benefits that keep our neighbourhoods liveable. Melbourne, like all cities around the world, needs…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
We live in a world that’s increasingly urbanised. Our cities keep growing and our green spaces need to grow with them. Maintaining and improving vegetation in our cities will provide the social, environmental, economic and health benefits that keep our neighbourhoods liveable.
Melbourne, like all cities around the world, needs people to design, manage and advocate for greater urban greening and the importance of these green spaces.
We’re working alongside industry and government to produce urban horticulturists with these necessary skills, and a passion for creativity and sustainability.
A qualification available now here else
The Master of Urban Horticulture is the only course of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, so you’ll have a qualification that’s entirely unique and well-regarded.
Whether you’re new to the field or already have some experience and want to upskill, there’s an entry point for you into this course.
Learn from a garden campus
You’ll spend your time getting your hands dirty – literally – alongside world-class researchers at our beautiful Burnley campus and at sites throughout the city.
Industry links
The course has excellent linkages and contacts to the urban horticulture industry, adding to the currency and relevancy of the study experience, but also building employment opportunities in green space design and management for the future.
There’s even the option to complete a professional internship in an industry, government or non-governmental organisation workplace to launch your career in the direction you want to go.
The program is made up of:
- Compulsory core subjects (50 points for the 150-point program; 100 points for the 200-point program)
- Discipline elective subjects (maximum of 75 points), which can include an optional research project
- Professional skills subjects (minimum of 12.5 points).
Career outcomes
Our graduates go on to work as: horticulturalists, arborists, revegetation and restoration specialists, landscape designers, open space managers, and nursery and greenhouse managers.
Employers in this field include:
- Government departments of environment
- Local government
- Landscape design and asset management businesses
- Universities or public research institutions such as the CSIRO.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
