Gopalan School of Architecture and Planning, Bangalore: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Affiliated to VTU, Gopalan School of Architecture and Planning was set up in 2014 and is one of the best architectural school situated at Bangalore, Karnataka. Being an affiliated college with the Council of Architecture, the institute provides a balance of theory and practice in the area of Architecture and Planning. Located on a small 0.85 hectare plot, GSAP offers the concentrated academic setting for its 139 registered students. It has a faculty of 14 committed personnel and offers 2 courses in two courses only. This focus on architectural education can be seen with GSAP’s wide ranging curriculum with the flagship B.Arch programme along with the specialised M.Arch in Construction Project Management.

GSAP prides of providing of a full set of the industry facilities to improve students life. The campus provides a provided for living separately for boys and girls; the hostels provide a second home that encourages interaction of cultures among the learners. The college has established a health centre for all students that has first aid services and a modern exercise fitness. The academic and research facility is complemented by well-resourced library facilities to support learning and research, in addition to well-equipped, modern laboratory facilities are necessary for practical learning achieved in the architecture profession in its varying brackets. Regarding sports, the college provides the services of summer training facilities, such as a 25-meter swimming pool, outdoor athletic training to encourage the physical and cooperative activities among the students. The entire compound of the college has got wireless facilities to support the academic needs of the students. Also, GSAP provides transport facilities to provide comfort to students and faculty members to travel easily.

In terms of academic offerings, GSAP provides two full-time courses, a full 5 year B.Arch programme with 40 student intake and a 2 year post graduate M.Arch Construction Project Management programme with 10 student intake. The total intake of students for all the programmes is 50 and to encourage more interaction between the faculty and students. This institute maintains fewer students per faculty. 

The given admission process of GSAP is aimed at choosing the best talents in the sphere of architecture. The admission to the B.Arch programme is based on the result of the National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) or Joint Entrance Examination (JEE ) Paper- 2. The college also accept admissions from CET merit list of the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA). It would like to place on record that GSAP has no provision for students to join the programme at midstream at any point of time in B.Arch course through any other qualification. The admission to the M.Arch programme depends on the PGCET test organised by the Government of Karnataka.