Does NIRF rank architecture colleges separately?

Yes — NIRF publishes a distinct Architecture ranking category alongside Engineering, Management and others. We have not yet integrated that Architecture-category data; the NIRF rank shown here, where present, is the Engineering-category rank.

Is B.Arch regulated the same way as engineering?

Architecture education in India sits under its own regulatory framework in addition to the broader AICTE/UGC recognition landscape. We link to each institute's own official pages rather than asserting an approval status we haven't verified per institute.

Why does this list look shorter than Engineering or Management?

Architecture has fewer tracked institutes in our directory today because we only include one once we can confirm it runs a B.Arch programme from a primary source. We're not going to inflate the list with guesses.

Can I compare architecture colleges here?

Yes — use Compare from any profile to place two or three architecture institutes side by side on the fields we actually have sourced.

Discipline · Architecture

Architecture Colleges in India

B.Arch institutes, shown honestly — this catalogue is thinner than Engineering, and NIRF's separate Architecture category isn't in our dataset yet.

686

Institutes tracked

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Government →Private →NIRF top 100 →JoSAA pathway →

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Architecture — key facts

Live data

Institutes with matching programmes	686
With NIRF Engineering rank (top slice)Numeric rank from nirfindia.org — Engineering category (see Key figure below)	13
Canonical courses in this vertical	2
Avg Graduation Outcomes (GO)Independent NIRF sub-score — not a placement package	77.5
Top type on this list	PRIVATE (11)

Counts from Knwdle’s live directory (NIRF Engineering + programme canonical slugs). GO averages only include institutes with a stored Graduation Outcomes score.

Course branches

Canonical programmes in this discipline — each hub lists every institute that offers it. B.Arch is the most-tracked branch here.

B.ArchPrimaryBachelor of Architecture

B.ArchBachelor of Architecture

Overview

Architecture on Knwdle covers Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) programmes. NIRF publishes Architecture as its own separate ranking category, distinct from Engineering — a real distinction we'd rather state explicitly than blur into one generic “NIRF rank.”

Our current dataset is built on NIRF's Engineering category and JoSAA, not NIRF's Architecture category, so a NIRF rank shown against an institute on this page is that institute's Engineering-category rank — common at IITs, NITs and other multi-department institutes that also run an architecture programme — rather than an Architecture-specific score. This is a thinner catalogue than Engineering, and we'd rather show that honestly than pad it.

Key figure

Share with a cited NIRF rank

That rank is NIRF's Engineering category — we haven't yet integrated NIRF's separate Architecture rankings. Share is computed live from the institutes listed on this page.

Infographic showing an illustrated campus building with design-principle icons and a concept-to-delivery process strip for architecture colleges

Top Architecture colleges by NIRF

Up to 20 institutes with a numeric NIRF Engineering rank. Year-over-year movement appears only when prior-year ranks exist in our database.

13 of 13 ranked

Rank	Institute	Type	State	GO
#1	IIT Madras (IITM)Chennai	IIT	Tamil Nadu	82.3
#2	IIT DelhiNew Delhi	IIT	Delhi	81.7
#5	IIT KharagpurKharagpur	IIT	West Bengal	79.8
#6	IIT RoorkeeRoorkee	IIT	Uttarakhand	85.8
#8	IIT Guwahati (IITG)Guwahati	IIT	Assam	84.7
#9	NIT TrichyTiruchirappalli	NIT	Tamil Nadu	78.7
#10	IIT BHUVaranasi	IIT	Uttar Pradesh	86.0
#13	NIT RourkelaRourkela	NIT	Odisha	76.9
#14	SRM University ChennaiChennai	PRIVATE	Tamil Nadu	65.4
#16	VIT VelloreVellore	PRIVATE	Tamil Nadu	72.2
#18	Jadavpur University, KolkataKolkata	PRIVATE	West Bengal	71.5
#20	Anna University, ChennaiChennai	PRIVATE	Tamil Nadu	63.3
#21	NIT CalicutKozhikode	NIT	Kerala	79.1

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PrivateChennai, Tamil Nadu

Vels University Chennai

Vel's Institute of Science Technology and Advanced Studies, Chennai

NIRF Engg: —
Type: Private
Fees · 2026: ₹1.8L–₹9.2L / yr

Vel's Institute of Science Technology and Advanced Studies Chennai is a private university which was established in the year 2008. The programmes of the…

Architecture — key facts

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