'THE AMOUNT OF WORK WE HAVE VERSUS THE NUMBER OF LICENSED PROFESSIONALS IS REALLY OUT OF WHACK, AND IT'S ONLY GETTING WORSE.'

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"It's very difficult to get H-iB approvals, and we've had to shift many great designers outside of the U.S. to our overseas offices as a result," Jencek says. "So getting STEM designation is a big deal, with tremendous value for employers. It's a vehicle for the profession to capitalize on the amazing talent that's coming from overseas." IN ADDITION TO Berkeley and Harvard, the MLA programs at four other schools have recently made the code switch: UC Davis, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois, where more than 70 percent of MLA students are from overseas, mostly from China, changed its CIP code to sustainability studies in July 2018. "Our motivation was clear and simple: It supports our students," says William Sullivan, ASLA, the head of the Illinois landscape architecture program. "We want to provide every opportunity for our students to stay in the United States for as much time as they want, within the constraints of the law. And we feel that this ridiculous misdesignation of landscape architecture as not a STEM degree is arbitrary and capricious."