B.Arch and B.Planning colleges, state by state

How students get in

Eligibility

Admission process

JoSAA 2026 calendar (reference)

These are the 2026 dates, kept as a guide. The 2027 JoSAA brochure and JEE Main 2027 schedule decide your year: see the JEE Paper 2 page and josaa.nic.in.

State and college counselling

Outside JoSAA, each state runs its own counselling or leaves admission to the college. The Council of Architecture does not admit students: it sets the minimum standards and the NATA test. State by state, the rules are in the notes inside each state heading in the list below.

Colleges by state

73 institutions with B.Arch or B.Planning, grouped by state. Every fact carries its own source link. A blank means we could not find a trustworthy source, not that the answer is no: ask the college.

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This list has 73 of the roughly 369 Council-approved institutions: all 40 NIRF-ranked ones, the JoSAA institutes and a selection of state and private colleges. It is not the full Council list; check coa.gov.in for every approved college. Intake, students, placement and the other NIRF factors are shown for the 40 ranked institutions, read from the data they submitted to NIRF. A fee or quota appears only where the institution or a government notice states it.

Fees at a glance

These figures come from each college’s own pages or notices, for the year noted in its card. A fee is a tuition fee unless the card says otherwise: hostel, mess, studio materials and exam fees are extra.

JoSAA seats also carry a one-time seat acceptance fee of ₹30,000 (₹15,000 for SC, ST and PwD categories), adjusted against the admission fee. DASA candidates pay the DASA enrolment fee in US dollars (see NRI quota).

Placement records (NIRF 2025)

For the 40 NIRF-ranked institutions, from the data each one submitted. Architecture hires are fewer and smaller than engineering hires, and many graduates go into higher studies or open their own practice. Read the number placed beside the median, not the median alone.

Everything below is read from the data each institution submitted to NIRF for the 2025 Architecture and Planning ranking. The institution, not NIRF, is the author of these numbers. Placement is for the 5-year B.Arch programme unless a row says B.Planning; "placed" counts students placed through the institute, and many graduates go on to higher studies or practice instead. Median salary is the figure the institution reported for placed graduates, in rupees a year, and is shown only when at least one student was placed. Batch sizes are small, so one year can swing a percentage a lot: read the three-year average beside it. Compare institutes side by side.

NRI quota

NRI, PIO, OCI and foreign-national students reach architecture seats by two doors: the government door (DASA) and the college door (an NRI or management quota that a private college or state sets for itself).

The government door: DASA 2026

The college door

• Private and deemed universities usually advertise an NRI or management quota. The size of the quota, the fee (often in US dollars) and whether NATA or a test is required are the college’s own decisions. A letter or prospectus line from the college is the only proof.
• State government colleges follow the state’s rules. Many states reserve a small number of NRI seats in state colleges, others do not. Ask the state counselling authority for the current notice.
• The Council of Architecture sets the minimum academic standards and the aptitude test. It does not set fee or quota rules, so a quota offered by a college is not a recognition issue, but the college must be CoA-approved for your degree to count.
• Never pay a quota fee to an agent. Pay only into the college’s own account against a receipt, and check approval on coa.gov.in first.

Colleges that state an NRI quota (from their own pages)

Architecture and Planning ranking

The 40 institutions NIRF ranked this year, with the five scores out of 100 and key facts from each sheet. Tap a name’s compare link to see up to four institutes side by side.

Ranks and the five scores are copied from the NIRF 2025 Architecture and Planning list. For this list the weights are 0.40, 0.20, 0.20, 0.10 and 0.10: we worked them out from the published scores, which they reproduce to two decimals. The NIRF engineering paper uses different weights (0.30, 0.30, 0.20, 0.10, 0.10), so do not read this list with those. Placement, median salary and intake come from the data sheet each institution submitted to NIRF. 40 institutions were ranked in 2025.

How the NIRF score is built

Reading the 39 rating charts we hold (of 40): almost every institution earns full or near-full marks for accessibility, women, examinations and faculty-student ratio, and loses most marks on research income, publications, support for economically challenged students and perception. The scores that separate institutions most are financial resources, publications and perception. See each institute’s chart, a heat map of all sub-scores and the details in the rating-chart analysis.

Seat allotment last year

20 institutes allotted B.Arch or B.Planning seats through JoSAA in 2026. The table gives each institute’s final-round (Round 5) closing rank for the OPEN category, gender-neutral pool, in the quota pools it has.

Ranks are from the JoSAA 2026 opening and closing rank file. Seat counts are from the 2026 NIT+ seat matrix and are shown only where that file has the programme. IIT rows are JEE Advanced and AAT ranks, a different list from JEE Main Paper 2: do not compare them with the others. Every category, gender pool and round is in the analytics, with a tool that takes your rank.

Common questions

Where this came from

Prepared 2 November 2026 with AI assistance and checked against the documents above. Institutes may change fees, seats and rules after that date. Nothing here promises a rank, a seat or an admission.