Landscape Architecture Career Trajectories
After graduation our students are pursuing careers in professional landscape architecture offices as well as other landscape-related firms and organizations in which their wide range of creative and communicative skills are in demand.
Our students are employed nationally and internationally. We have an ever-increasing footprint in the United States and are constantly working with our Center for Student Development to forge new connections with firms looking for future leaders in the field.
Additional information about careers in landscape architecture can be found at the following links and jump to the bottom of the page for our Joblink section:
- American Society of Landscape Architects
- ASLA Graduating Student Survey, 2020
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
- TNASLA
UTLA Alums
Where are They Now?
The following is a partial list of the firms and organizations where UTLA alums currently work or have worked in the past:
- Avalon Golf and Country Club, Knoxville, TN
- Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Chattanooga & Knoxville, TN
- Belt Collins International, Hong Kong, China
- BrightView Landscape Development, Lawrenceville, GA
- Chandler Design and Planning, LLC, Knoxville, TN
- Chen Moore & Associates, Orlando, FL
- City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
- CRJA-IBI Group, Knoxville, TN
- Design Workshop, Aspen, CO
- Dix.Hite + Partners, Longwood, FL
- Edward Stone Jr. and Associates, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- EJ Smith Construction Company, The Colony, TX
- firma, Nashville, TN
- Harrah’s Cherokee Resort, Whittier, NC
- Hawkins Partners, Inc., Nashville, TN
- Hedstrom Design, Knoxville, TN
- Hodgson Douglas, Nashville, TN
- HZS design LTD, Shanghai, China
- KGA DeForest Design, Katy, TX
- Leblanc Jones Landscape Architects, Boston, MA
- LITTLEJOHN, Nashville, TN
- Moriyama & Teshima, Toronto, Canada
- National Park Service, Boonsboro, MD
- Office of James Burnett, Boston, MA
- Perkins + Will, Atlanta, GA
- Ragan Smith Associates, Nashville, TN
- Raymond Jungles, Inc., Coconut Grove, FL
- Ross/Fowler, Knoxville, TN
- Seamon Whiteside Associates, Mt. Pleasant, SC
- Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, Chicago, IL
- Stewart, Inc, Charlotte, NC
- Tharp Design, Morristown, TN
- ThreeCubed, Knoxville, TN
- University of Auburn, Department of Landscape Architecture, Auburn, AL
- University of Tennessee, Facilities Services, Knoxville, TN
- UNLV School of Architecture, Las Vegas, NV
- W.M.Whitaker & Associates, Chattanooga, TN
Internships
During their course of study at UTLA, students are provided with multiple opportunities to engage in internships with our growing network of professional design offices, research organizations, non-profits, and design build firms, among others. The following is a partial list of organizations that have hosted UTLA student interns:
- Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Chattanooga, TN
- CRJA-IBI Group, Knoxville, TN
- Design Workshop, Chicago, IL
- Edward Stone Jr. and Associates, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Hawkins Partners, Inc., Nashville, TN
- Hedstrom Design, Knoxville, TN
- Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, Knoxville, TN
- Knoxville Botanic Garden and Arboretum, Knoxville, TN
- Knoxville Parks & Recreation, Knoxville, TN
- Nashville Civic Design Center, Nashville, TN
- Perkins + Will, Atlanta, GA
- Ragan Smith Associates, Nashville, TN
- Ross/Fowler, Knoxville, TN
- SandersPace, Knoxville, TN
- Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Chicago, IL
- Stephen W. Hackney Landscape Architecture, Knoxville, TN
- University of Tennessee Environmental Design Lab, Knoxville, TN
- WMWA, Chattanooga, TN
Externships
Interested students at UTLA are able to pursue an externship with a growing network of offices across the country. An externship is generally a one to two week period during which a student works in an office to gain a better understanding of the professional design office environment as well as how contemporary designers work. Students generally target the winter break of their second or third year of the MLA degree to pursue these opportunities. Currently, UTLA has externship relationships with the following firms, and we are always working with additional firms to try and give our students a wide range of offices to choose from:
- Civitas, Inc, Denver, CO
- Firma Studio, Nashville, TN
- Future Firm, Chicago, IL
- Landworks Studio, Boston, MA
- Nelson Byrd Woltz, Charlottesville, VA
- PORT, Chicago, IL
- Sanders Pace Architecture, Knoxville, TN
- Snohetta, New York, NY
- SOM, Chicago, IL
- WMWA, Chattanooga, TN