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School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

The School of Planning and Architecture, also known as SPA New Delhi is one of the oldest institutes for architecture and planning.  It was founded in 1941 as the Department of Architecture of Delhi Polytechnic, currently Delhi Technological University.  It was bestowed autonomy in 1979.  The college offers around 2 undergraduate courses and is home to around 300 students.  Admission to the college is decided on the basis of the rank secured in NATA.

Ranking

# 5th

India Today 2023

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# 2nd

India Today 2022

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# 2nd

India Today 2021

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# 3rd

Outlook 2021

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Campus

Location
The campus is located in ITO in East Delhi near Indraprashta Estate.  The SPA residential campus on the other hand is located in New Friends Colony and the girl’s hostel is located in Indraprastha Estate.  A 20 acre site has been dedicated for building the new campus near JNU.
Infrastructure
SPA has two separate buildings. The ‘Planning’ building is equipped with air-conditioned lecture rooms and excellently maintained facilities which more than makes up for the diminutive campus size. The ‘Architecture’ building is located on the outer ring-road. The volleyball court is located on the entrance of the college. The building is spacious and has good infrastructure. The architecture classrooms, called studios, are spacious and well-equipped. The campus is Wi-Fi enabled and has an air-conditioned library. The ‘Planning’ building also accommodates a girls’ hostel.
Faculty
The university has a well-experienced faculty. The professors’ conduct lectures in a cooperative style.  They conduct lectures in English, but some of the lecturers do like to use the native language to explain a point better.  However, the important part to note here is that most of the time, the faculty is very accessible, and students rarely face any difficulty in interacting with them
Placement
The School of Planning and Architecture does provide placements to its students, but not regularly or completely.  However, just like IITs, SPA New Delhi also rules the roost in terms of campus placements. SPA is the best college for architecture, and finding work is not very difficult.
Facilities
Library:
Computerized bibliographical information of books, theses and dissertations reports are available in the library through the OPAC (On-line Public Access Catalogue) service and users can search by various ways viz author, title, subject, classification, words within title. Users can avail the OPAC facility on intranet through the browser based Web-OPAC.
The following databases are available on OPAC :
  • Books Database
  • Theses Database

Contact Details

School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

Block-B, 4, Indraprashta Marg , IP Estate, New Delhi, Delhi, India, 110002

Phone: + 91- 11- 2370-2375
Phone: + 91- 11- 2370-2376
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