12 October 2009 Lincoln University - New Zealand's specialist land-based university

Land - it's the ultimate resource, source of human sustenance, habitation, and recreation . There's nothing else so fundamental to human welfare.

Lincoln University - founded in 1878 and today New Zealand's specialist land-based university - has always recognised the productive pre-eminence of the land and associated industries.

Land underpins some of today's biggest opportunities and greatest challenges - feeding the world, for example - and Lincoln University believes it takes a specialist to identify, quantify and grapple with these opportunities and challenges.

Lincoln University is proud of its specialist role of educating graduates who travel the world committed to transforming land, people and economies.

For the thousands of graduates worldwide who hold their degrees from Lincoln University, a return visit today would reveal something of a transformation on the 58-hectare campus. A brand new, dedicated building for Landscape Architecture, has been completed this year and is due to be opened officially on 20 November.

It is a state-of-the-art structure and provides Landscape Architecture students with firstclass study, studio, and computing facilities.

Landscape Architecture has been taught at Lincoln University for 40 years and the University has established itself as the leading provider in Australasia. Lincoln's is the oldest school of Landscape Architecture in the Southern Hemisphere and alumnus Dr Diane Menzies is currently the President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects.

Landscape Architecture is a model example of the close manner in which Lincoln University works with industry and the professions to develop qualifications to meet their needs as well as the aspirations of its students.

To help meet capability in the land-based sector, Lincoln University seeks to ensure that its potential students are aware of the opportunities the sector presents and the matching educational opportunities available at the University. Ultimately Lincoln University
graduates will be employed at the forefront of economies all over the world and the Landscape Architecture profession is an example. Like all of Lincoln University's qualifications the Landscape Architecture degree is very portable internationally. Lincoln University graduates are working in some 15 different countries worldwide and on every continent.