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This  ‘degree’ is essentially the same as taking a year of liberal arts in the eye of CLARB. Its nearly useless in terms of licensure reqs and misleading..shame on merritt college.

The course description is misleading at best. How many contractors do you think will sign up for this course only to realize they cant sit for the LARE without another 3 years minmum education plus work experience? This is the problem with for-profit community colleges.

To be clear I dont think this course will qualify you to sit for the exam,…[Read more]

Hey Maui Bob:
 
Here is the other 10% you did not buy into with the other 90% that you did.
This investment advice is free of charge this time. If your enlarging your stock portfolio
with more health care related picks, stop doing it now. It would be as foolish as buying
more gold futures right now, but you already know the latter tip.
This is…[Read more]

Christ Dude ….. if the best you can do is an inane and vapid question like this one, ,,, you
deserve some of the comments coming your way (and these people are being very polite).
Please spare us from the ill-conceived, poorly thought through airhead based questions like this one
from now on …..

Not very often we agree…but this guy is 100% correct! Too many variables to be specific.

I agree with about 90% of what Landplanner wrote, except for the healthcare comment. From my view and understanding, there’s no downside to healthcare industry. They can’t find enough RNs to fill open positions in U.S. hospitals. And computer programmers are a hot bed. If you can write app codes, some start-up firm somewhere will hire you.…[Read more]

Our “value proposition” is uniqueness.  We are blessed (and cursed!) by our medium– a tiny portion of the earth–every case a different one.
On the bright side, never underestimate the hunger for the unique– especially from the uber $. 

Thank you.

I haven’t found a way to ask them actually.  I’ve made some cold calls and emails to firms in NYC (where I live) and they were a little vague about the job outlook.  Mostly they said it was grim right now, but should pick up in a few years.   Thanks!

What about civil engineers?
I’d have to go with something similiar to Tosh K’s answer. What we do better than anyone else is bridge the gaps between everyone else. You can find someone else profession-wise who does anything we do, but not EVERYTHING we do. And I would also venture to say we often have more understanding of the things we don’t do…[Read more]

Keep in mind, If you are lucky enough to even get an job, you are starting over. Unlike many careers, the design professions are not ones that you can just slide into at the same level you were by getting yet another degree; there is an apprenticeship aspect to it. you will be green and need to learn the profession from the ground up. This, of…[Read more]

I guess I’m a little confused. So CLARB has one set of requirements to be met for taking the exam (which do NOT include anything less than a bachelors in something, but strangely the degree doesn’t need to be from an accredited program), while each state sets their own rules for who can take the test and those rules can be far less stringent than…[Read more]

This is kind of like ASLA discussing certificates. Not a degree, but a certificate. At least an AA gets you on the road, as you can transfer with many core courses out of the way (many 5 year programs, including where I got my BLA, used to have this model, and somewhat still do). It is ASLA and CLARB allowing the use of nomenclature they probably…[Read more]

-systems related design/analysis/thinking
-change over time
-understanding processes

Have you asked the recent grads from those schools?  The upper tier east coast school grads (from schools I have contacts with) are at about 50% employment in the profession, another 25% in a related line of work.

I’m rather sensitive to young (or career changing) people being misled as well as the public. There are already “landscape design” concentrations or full degrees out there, but to apply the same title to something else is in fact going to attract people specifically because they will see that term and “want to be LA’s” – as Andrew referenced.

imho 
Grading/Drainage is perhaps the one thing that all LA’s must be able to do that most architects, etc… cannot.

I would second, even third Earthworkers comments. All the design professions have been hammered from the Great Recession or Reset or Great Desperation, take your pick. There has been a complete seismic shift in our national and global economy. We are in for an ongoing de-leveraging, and downscaling.
Measurable and improved conditions to anything…[Read more]

I just saw something like this on the TV.  Some online college was offering an AA or BFA in LandArch.  The funny thing is if you look at any of the job postings, and anyone I have talked to, Firms are looking for MLA, BLA, or BSLA.  That’s it.  And the majority of them are requesting an accredited college.  Most new job postings I have seen also…[Read more]

Oh Earthworker I am so sorry to hear that.  You sound like me with my M.P.A degree….