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Landscape and Environmental Design
Department of Sustainable Agriculture
Smith Hall 109
agriculture@andrews.edu
(269) 471-6006

Landscape & Environmental Design

Design the spaces where people and nature meet — from urban gardens and campus grounds to ecological corridors and sustainable communities. 

The Horticulture – Landscape and Environmental Design degree is a professional degree built to equip students with an extensive knowledge base in ornamental horticulture and environmental design.  Ecology, botany, and art are combined in this degree to equip students to work in the ever growing green industry, joining creative professionals who like nature and working with it. 

The graduates of this degree are ready for immediate employment with most offered a position before graduation.

 

This isn't just a gardening degree. It's for people who think deeply about how designed spaces affect people, ecosystems, and communities.

 

Is this major right for you?

You might be a perfect fit if you...

 

Love to design and create

You sketch ideas, rearrange spaces in your head, and care deeply about how things look and feel. Design thinking is at the core of this program

Are fascinated by plants and nature

You want to understand how plants grow, which species thrive where, and how ecosystems work — not just use plants as decorations.

Want to improve communities

You see empty lots and think "what could this be?" — a garden, a gathering space, a green corridor. You want your work to matter to real people

Care about environmental health

Pollinator habitats, stormwater management, native plantings — you want to design with the ecosystem in mind, not against it.