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“Conway is the foundation of my career…Conway is as relevant and revolutionary as ever. Knowing if the fit is right requires either a clear understanding of what you want, or the courage to jump in and swim, and see where the ‘rushing’ waters take you. Either way, it will probably change your life.”

David Evans ’76; Principal, SFE Design, Inc.; Moraga, CA

“I chose Conway over some of the larger universities I was accepted to because it seemed to offer the opportunity to explore ‘out of the box’ solutions…I think the Conway Schools model for learning to understand and design with natural laandscapes can serve as a positive example for anyone working in design and planning as well as related fields.” 

Gove DePuy ‘02;Founder, Ishwara Environmental Consulting, Bali, Indonesia

Who comes to Conway to study?

Conway students are from very diverse backgrounds, encompass a wide age range, and bring multiple interests in sustainable design. We like it that way. It makes for a rich learning community.

Some students already have considerable life experience and previous graduate degrees in various fields. Others are more recently out of college, but have already demonstrated a deep commitment to sustainable design.

Students at a conference...photo by Paul Cawood Hellmund

Conway attracts highly motivated, self-directed learners who want to pursue environmental planning and design careers and who learn best in an intensive and applied program. Conway students have a strong commitment to social and environmental issues.

Our graduate degree is very attractive to those with backgrounds in the natural sciences who want to work in landscape restoration, and to those who are practicing architects, planners, and engineers who want to design more sensitively with the land.

There are no part-time students at Conway and those who attend must be able to immerse themselves fully for ten months.

Most students have been working for several years and are returning to school to change careers or to develop new skills. Their backgrounds are quite varied: undergraduate majors range from fine arts to computer science, from sociology to medicine. Some have traditional landscape design or planning degrees and want to expand skills or broaden perspectives. Others have worked in nurseries, garden maintenance, or landscape contracting and want to move into design. Still others have volunteered time to conservation or horticultural causes while pursuing employment in other fields, and have decided to pursue careers in landscape planning or design.