Small class size in the MLA means lots of support and opportunities to engage.
Whether it’s the tight-knit community you’ll form with your studio cohort, the interactive activities offered through HeadSPACE or the opportunity to explore leading landscape architecture sites with fellow classmates, you’ll find the student experience at CAPLA is rewarding in a way that only rigorous programs can be.
As a student in the MLA program, you’ll form a strong bond with your classmates and professors. Many of our Master of Landscape Architecture alumni remain actively engaged in the program, as professional guest critics and lecturers, through their participation in the annual job interview fair or by supporting our ASLA student chapter in community events like PARKing Day.
Everyone coming out of our landscape architecture program learns what it means to be able to improve the landscape of our cities. That in itself is helping the world.
Rebecca Johnstone '20 MLA
Meet MLA Students
Students in the Master of Landscape Architecture program come to CAPLA from across the country and around the world. Their passions, like their professional experience, are diverse. Meet a few of our students:
Dionna Hatch '20 MLA
Dionna Hatch, who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala before joining the MLA, is passionate about creating spaces where children and adults can interact, learn and play together.
Sean Maccabe '21 MLA
Sean Maccabe is interested in addressing food security through design, particularly in light of climate change, increasing food prices and the lack of access to quality, nutritious foods for many in the world.
Ramzy Bejjani '21 MLA
Ramzy Bejjani is an intern with Living Streets Alliance, a local Tucson nonprofit that advocates for streets to be used a public spaces that connect people to places and to each other.
Tucson, the Coolest Desert City in the World
We hate to give away our best-kept secret, but Tucson is one of the best places to live in the country (and Outside magazine agrees).
Located in the lush Sonoran desert, the metropolitan area of a million people is nestled between five mountain ranges, has a world-renowned multicultural food scene and eclectic neighborhoods and offers year-round outdoor activities, including cycling, hiking, rock climbing and astronomy. You’ll fit right in.