Is NATA entrance exam compulsory to join B.Arch? Which are the top colleges?

NATA (National Aptitude Test in Architecture) is an exam organized for the students who want to make a career in the architecture field. This is for UG and PG course in 423 affiliated college from the Council of Architecture. This is not a compulsory exam for aspirant who want to do B.Arch. Student can also apply for IIT-JEE Paper 2 exam which is also a national level exam. Rank of JEE paper 2 is also valid for giving admission to a student in a good college of India. Many state governments also conduct their own exams for giving admission to the student in B.Arch courses such as AAT, COMED-K, CEED AAT and many colleges conduct their own entrance exam for the students who want to make a career in architecture and passed the class 12th exam with atleast 50% marks. Here are a few of the best colleges for B.Arch 1. IIT Roorkee Department of Architecture Admission through IIT AAT after passing JEE Mains and Advance exam. 2. Sir JJ College Of architecture Mumbai This is the oldest and the first college for architecture in Asia 3. NIT Calicut 4. BIT Mesra 5. CEPT University Ahmedabad.

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NATA (National aptitude test in architecture) is a national level exam for admission Into undergraduate architecture and planning courses. This exam is conducted by the COA (Council of architecture). It is not compulsory but it is essential to write the exam if one aspires to become an architect as most of the colleges in India accept NATA scores only for admission. One of the alternatives for NATA is JEE Mains paper 2 but it is not that important compared to NATA. Most of the NITs accept JEE Mains paper 2 scores for B.Arch but many of the other top architecture colleges accept NATA scores only. The following are the top colleges for B.Arch in India: 1)School of planning and architecture (SPA), Delhi 2)Sir JJ college of architecture, Mumbai 3)IIT Kharagpur 4)IIT Roorkee 5)NIT Trichy 6)Jadavpur University, Kolkata 7)BIT Mesra, Ranchi 8)Chandigarh College of Architecture, Chandigarh 9)NIT Calicut 10)Manipal University, Manipal 11)Anna University, Chennai 12)Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai 13)Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi 14)CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

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