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Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies 園境學文學士

BA(LS)

Short Description

The Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies [BA(LS)] is an internationally recognised undergraduate degree offered by the Division of Landscape Architecture. Our programme delivers a broadly comprehensive education in the landscape architecture discipline. We teach the knowledge, concepts and skills required to respond creatively, professionally and ethically to the urgent social and environmental challenges faced by our cities and regions today. Students graduating from our BA(LS) programme may continue their studies in the professionally-accredited Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) programme at HKU, or apply for study in some of the world’s top postgraduate programmes.

Landscape architecture is an increasingly critical discipline that binds a core capacity in design and planning with fluency in ecology, civil engineering, and geography. This interdisciplinarity extends back to landscape architecture’s origins, where the profession and its antecedents engaged with the challenges of human settlement and environmental risk; planning for health, recreation, and conservation in the industrialising city; and remediating the landscapes of pollution that followed. Landscape architecture today faces challenges of rapid urbanisation, resource depletion, climate change, rising sea-levels, and declining biodiversity. Whether you end up engaging with a corporate client, informing a government body, or participating with an environmental non-profit, our degree will give you the critical, creative, and intellectual tools to advocate for just and sustainable change moving forward.

Remarks:
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Programme Website

Requirements

  • Programme Entrance Requirements
  • General Entrance Requirements
Same as General Entrance Requirements

Candidates are required to take part in the Creative Design Response, a short exercise designed to allow candidates to express their creativity and independent thinking. The criteria measured by the exercise include critical analysis, creative problem-solving, and self-organization. The exercise proposes a new question every year and is completed at home and submitted as a digital upload through the programme website. Instructions for taking part in the Creative Design Response brief will be sent to all potential candidates via e-mail and posted on the programme website. Portfolio of creative work (which may include drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, creative writing, video, multi-media work) could be submitted in soft copy.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview. Candidates are strongly encouraged to show a portfolio of creative work (which may include drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, creative writing, video, multi-media work) during the interview.

The calculation of programme score considers category A subjects and may include Mathematics Extended Module 1 or 2 or category C subject whichever is higher. Please refer to hku.hk/dse for details.

The result(s) of Liberal Studies, Combined Science and Integrated Science achieved in previous sitting(s) will also be considered.

Core Subjects Minimum Level
CHINESE LANGUAGE 3
CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT3 Attained
ENGLISH LANGUAGE 3
MATHEMATICS COMPULSORY PART 2
Elective Subject(s) Minimum Level
ANY 1 SUBJECT (EXCLUDING APPLIED LEARNING, OTHER LANGUAGE) 3
ANY 1 SUBJECT (EXCLUDING APPLIED LEARNING)4 3
Or
ANY 1 SUBJECT (EXCLUDING APPLIED LEARNING, OTHER LANGUAGE) 3
MATHEMATICS EXTENDED MODULE 1 OR 2 3

Remark:

  1. "Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education” is referred to as “HKDSE”.
  2. "Attained with Distinction" obtained prior to 2018, or "Attained with Distinction (I)" or "Attained with Distinction (II)" obtained in or after 2018, in Applied Learning subjects (other than Applied Learning Chinese) will be used as additional supporting information. In the meantime, student learning experiences in Applied Learning subjects may be considered within the context of other learning experiences in their application.
  3. Level 2 in Liberal Studies achieved in previous sitting will be considered in lieu of Citizenship and Social Development.
  4. Other Language subjects will be used as unspecified elective subjects. Please refer to hku.hk/dse for details.
  5. The result(s) of Combined Science and Integrated Science achieved in previous sitting(s) will also be considered.

Calculation of scores for applicants with more than 1 sitting in HKDSE Examination

In general, most of the programmes offered by HKU consider the best results achieved by candidates in different combination of sittings, except for a few programmes which only consider the latest results.  Few programmes may also impose a penalty on HKDSE repeaters.  Please refer to https://www.hku.hk/dse for details.

First Year Tuition Fee

HK$ 44,500

Subject to approval

Contacts

Faculty of Architecture

Email: faculty@arch.hku.hk

Tel: +852 3917 2149

Statistics

Application Statistics (after Modification of Programme Choices)

Year Band A Band B Band C Band D Band E Total
2024 38 54 110 160 162 524
2023 38 61 116 151 194 560
2022 31 53 73 142 141 440
2021 31 39 68 128 148 414
2020 45 33 57 128 141 404
2019 37 45 93 136 174 485
2018 53 61 117 198 209 638
2017 94 69 97 182 186 628
2016 56 50 126 168 207 607
2015 59 63 115 207 272 716
2014 95 48 120 217 274 754
2013 157 95 203 320 392 1167
2012 70 78 167 249 331 895

Offer Statistics (as at the Announcement of the Main Round Offer Results)

Year Band A Band B Band C Band D Band E Total
2024 7 0 0 0 0 7
2023 7 0 0 0 0 7
2022 3 0 0 0 0 3
2021 7 0 0 0 0 7
2020 7 0 0 0 0 7
2019 7 0 0 0 0 7
2018 8 0 0 0 0 8
2017 11 0 0 0 0 11
2016 10 0 0 0 0 10
2015 9 0 0 0 0 9
2014 14 0 0 0 0 14
2013 9 0 0 0 0 9
2012 11 2 0 0 0 13
Footnote(s)

1As the 2025/26 academic year is the beginning of the 2025/26 - 2027/28 triennium for which the allocation of UGC-funded places is still subject to the Government's approval, the number of intake places shown above is indicative only and subject to changes or confirmation.