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India has only 50,000 registered architects as against the requirement of 500,000. Of the 170 architectural colleges in India, the number of private colleges are five times higher than the government ones, which are just 20-23. The students intake is limited to 40-80 per school and each year around 3,000 architects pass out.
Another factor is shortage of faculty. There is a 50 per cent shortage of faculty members across all architectural schools. India would require 15 more teachers for each school. Another issue is the lack of awareness among students about architecture, according to Devadas. Besides, architectural services are concentrated only in large cities, and are not percolating down to small towns and rural areas.
"It is not just the shortage of colleges, but also about the quality. The architecture education must need the profession, and not the other way round," insists Neerja Tiku, head, Department of Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.
For a five-year bachelors degree in Architecture, the course fee starts from Rs 15,000 per annum in government colleges and in private colleges, it varies from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh as initial payment, depending on the reputation of the college, informs KS Anantha Krishna, principal and director of School of Architecture, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore.
"The architects are relatively underpaid when compared with IT and other professionals. Even the corporate and government undermine the value attached to the profession and pay only 3-4 percent of the estimated cost," says Shiva Leelanand, chief consultant - urban design, Associate of the Indian Institute of Architects, Hyderabad.
Maharashtra has 52 colleges both private and government-run, Tamil Nadu has 32, Karnataka 26, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala each 8 while Puducherry and Bihar have two each.In Andhra, 1,000 students appear for the entrance test for the 650 seats. The state has only 1,300 registered architects and would require 15,000 more in future.
India has only 50,000 registered architects as against the requirement of 500,000. Of the 170 architectural colleges in India, the number of private colleges are five times higher than the government ones, which are just 20-23. The students intake is limited to 40-80 per school and each year around 3,000 architects pass out.
Another factor is shortage of faculty. There is a 50 per cent shortage of faculty members across all architectural schools. India would require 15 more teachers for each school. Another issue is the lack of awareness among students about architecture, according to Devadas. Besides, architectural services are concentrated only in large cities, and are not percolating down to small towns and rural areas.
"It is not just the shortage of colleges, but also about the quality. The architecture education must need the profession, and not the other way round," insists Neerja Tiku, head, Department of Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.
For a five-year bachelors degree in Architecture, the course fee starts from Rs 15,000 per annum in government colleges and in private colleges, it varies from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh as initial payment, depending on the reputation of the college, informs KS Anantha Krishna, principal and director of School of Architecture, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore.
"The architects are relatively underpaid when compared with IT and other professionals. Even the corporate and government undermine the value attached to the profession and pay only 3-4 percent of the estimated cost," says Shiva Leelanand, chief consultant - urban design, Associate of the Indian Institute of Architects, Hyderabad.
Maharashtra has 52 colleges both private and government-run, Tamil Nadu has 32, Karnataka 26, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala each 8 while Puducherry and Bihar have two each.In Andhra, 1,000 students appear for the entrance test for the 650 seats. The state has only 1,300 registered architects and would require 15,000 more in future.
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