- Location
- Langside Campus
- SCQF Level
- 5
- Start Date
- 25 Aug 2025
- Qualification Type
- NC
- Course Type
- Full-Time
- Duration
- 1 Year (August to June)
If you like the idea of landscaping, this course gives you the capability to achieve your goals. You’ll learn the practical and theoretical aspects including planning, design and construction, the difference between hard and soft landscaping, brickwork and fencing. This course gives you the skills and knowledge required for a career in landscaping, whether you choose self-employment or a job in the landscaping industry - learning outdoors, in the classroom and in our workshops and glasshouses.
What will I learn?
NQ Landscape Design and Construction course delivery is through both practical and theoretical study and you should be prepared for a degree of classroom study.
- Design and planning
- Plant identification
- Soft landscaping
- Protected crop production
- Hard landscaping
- Brickwork
- Fence construction
- CAD
- Drainage
- Surveying
- Lawn care
Entry requirements (minimum)
- Minimum of three passes at National 4 or equivalent, to include numeracy and English; OR
- An appropriate Level 4 qualification, for example, NQ Introduction to Landscape Design and Greenkeeping
- A reasonable level of fitness is also desirable.
- You should be aged 16 or over
Entry requirement equivalency table
If you do not meet the entry criteria for your chosen course, you may be offered an alternative course in the same subject area.
Employer and industry links
The College works with a range of public and private sector employers, agencies and industry-lead bodies to ensure that the course is relevant to the sector’s needs, including the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and LANTRA.
Jobs and further study
- HND Horticulture at Glasgow Clyde College
- HNC Landscape Management at Glasgow Clyde College
- You will have the potential to move on to jobs in the horticulture or landscaping sectors.
Making an application
For courses starting in August, you can make up to two applications.
Applications are made to a course and a first choice of campus. If the course is oversubscribed at your first choice you will be automatically considered for alternative sites and may be made an offer without a further application.
I've applied — what happens next?
You will receive an automated email confirming that we have received your application. Please remember to check your junk / SPAM folder if you think you haven't heard from us.
You will be informed of the outcome by email within 10 days.
The outcomes are:
- Unconditional offer: you have met all of the entry criteria and your place is guaranteed
- Conditional offer: your place is secured pending you meeting the Entry requirements, this may mean achieving school or college qualifications which you may not be able to provide at the time of application
- Waiting list: you may have met all of the entry criteria however the course is full. If any places become available you may be contacted – usually around the start date of the course
- Unsuccessful: you have not met the entry criteria for this course.
The Student Advice Centre can be contacted to discuss alternative options if you are unsuccessful.
Once an offer is received you must reply within 14 days or risk losing your place.
Once you have accepted your offer, you will be sent further information, for example, Student Funding, Joining Instructions and Induction Date.
You will be invited to our open day where you can meet with the staff and existing students, you will also be given a tour of the campus.