Top Architecture Colleges in India

IIT Kharagpur, established on 18 August 1951, is renowned as one of the famous institutes in India that provides education on basic and applied research and higher technology.

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee was established in 1847 by the then lieutenant governor, Sir James Thomason in British India. It is the seventh Indian Institute of Technology.

National Institute of Technology Calicut was established in 1961 as Calicut Regional Engineering College. It is an autonomous and one of the 31 institutions of Insitute of National Importance under the NIT Act 2007.

Commonly known as SPA Delhi, established in 1941, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi is a co-educational public school, providing a regular course in the field of higher education for the deserving candidates.

School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal was established in 2008 as Institute of National Importance. It offer quality education at undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and post-doctoral levels in planning and architecture.

Commonly known as NIT Trichy, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirapalli (formerly known as Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli), is a public engineering institution was established in 1964 to cater the needs of satisfactory higher education.

School of Planning and Architecture (SPAV), Vijayawada was established in 2008 by the HRD Ministry as an autonomous institution. This is a premier Centrally Funded Technical Institution (CFTI) under the MHRD.

Established in 1920, Jamia Millia Islamia, was established at Aligarh in United Provinces, India and became a Central University by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1988.

College of Engineering, Trivandrum was established on July 3rd, 1939, and it is the first engineering college in Kerala recognised & approved by AICTE, New Delhi and accredited by NBA, New Delhi.

Established in 1955 at Mesra, Ranchi (Head Quarter) in the state of Jharkhand, India. Birla Institute of Technology Mesra was also known as BIT Mesra established by the philanthropist and industrialist Late Shri. B. M. Birla.

Established in 1946 by B.M. Sreenivasaiah, B.M.S. College of Engineering (BMSCE) is an autonomous engineering college situated in Basavangudi, Bengaluru. The college was accredited to All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi. It was also approved by Council of Architecture (COA), New Delhi.

Maulana Azad College of Engineering Technology (MACET), Patna was approved by AICTE and affiliated to Magadh University. This is one amongst the oldest private engineering colleges in India. 

Aligarh Muslim University was established in 1875 by late Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as a Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College. It is an Indian public central university offers more than 300 courses in both traditional and modern branches of higher education.

Anna University, located in Chennai and established on 4th September 1978 was formed by uniting four renowned technical institutions in Chennai and hence is called a unitary type technical university.

The College of Engineering (Andhra University) was established in 1946. The college is accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ grade. It offers Nanotechnology and has Siemens laboratories.

Commonly known as Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy College of Architecture, Mumbai was established in 1857 as the Bombay School of Art & Industry.

Jadavpur University in Kolkata, a unitary type of technical university that was established on 24th December 1955 was earlier known as Bengal Technical Institute and College of Engineering and Technology.

On August 7, 1961, Chandigarh College of Architecture (CCA), Chandigarh was established and set up as a part of the great Chandigarh Experiment to impart co-education in Architecture.

Commonly known as CEPT University, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad was established in 1962 by the Ahmedabad Education Society (AES). It was established with the inception of School of Architecture through grant-in-aid from the Government of Gujarat.

Faculty of Architecture - Manipal Academy of Higher Education was established in 1978 and it is one of the premier architecture college imparting higher education for deserving aspirants in the region of Manipal.