School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada (SPA Vijayawada) is an higher education institute in Vijayawada, India, specializing in education and research in the field of urban planning and architecture. SPA, Vijayawada offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs under architecture, planning and design streams.

The undergraduate courses offered at School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada are BArch and BPlan with a total of 110 available seats. SPA, Vijayawada offers postgraduate courses in Master of Planning, Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture. SPA Vijayawada also offers research work leading to a PhD degree under various departments.

• Candidates who are applying for the BArch and BPlan courses will be allotted seats based on their performance in JEE Main (Paper 2)
• Non-Architects having appeared for CEED exam and awaiting results are also eligible to apply for Master’s programmes. The CEED Qualification certificate is essential when called for interview
• Selection to PG course will be based on qualifying degree and subsequent testing rounds which will be conducted by SPA
• Candidates applying for PhD are required to have completed their Master’s degree in a relevant field of study with a  minimum of 55% marks

Admission into SPA, Vijayawada is offered on the basis of a valid score in JEE Main. Here are the important dates of admission:

School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada offers BArch and BPlan at UG level. Candidates are required to have completed their 10+2 studies with Mathematics as a compulsory subject. The course duration of BArch is 5 years and that of BPlan is 4 years.

• Selection is based on candidates’ JEE Main (Paper 2) entrance exam score
• Admission to Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Planning courses is made on the basis of Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA)
• Admissions to BArch/BPlan courses under the category of FN/NRI/PIO will be through Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA)
• Candidates who have been granted admission at SPA are required to report at the college and register by filling out and submitting an application form at the college office

SPA, Vijayawada offers M.Arch and M.Plan in 3 specialisations each. PG courses at SPA Vijayawada is granted to candidates who have completed their bachelor’s degree in the relevant field of study with a minimum of 55% marks (50% for SC/ST/OBC candidates) in the qualifying degree examination.

Selection Criteria: A cumulative score obtained from the above five areas will be used to draw up a merit list, based on which candidates will be granted admission into the PG courses.

SPA, Vijayawada also offers Master of Building Engineering and Management (MBEM) as part of the PG degree programmes.

Note: Reservation of seats is as follows: Foreign National (FN – 10%), Non Resident Indian (NRI -3%) and Person of Indian Origin (PIO – 2%).

Candidates will be evaluated on the basis of the following five areas as part of the admission procedure:

• Performance in the qualifying examination
• Portfolio of work
• Personal Interaction with the faculty and/or written test
• Interest and motivation for the chosen study and
• Work Experience

A cumulative score obtained from the above five areas will be used to draw up a merit list, based on which candidates will be granted admission into the PG courses.

School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada offers PhD in various specializations. A minimum eligibility for PhD is to have master’s degree in any discipline or allied discipline with 10-year of work experience. Candidates who have a bachelor’s degree can also apply provided they have some work experience. Admission into Doctoral Programs are processed twice in a year at the start of either semester (January/July) of an academic session

• For PhD (Part-Time), the eligibility criteria will be the same as above except that the applicant should have an additional work experience of 5 years over the one specified above and should obtain a letter of consent from the employer, if any

Selection Criteria: Admissions are done based on merit.

Application process for UG, PG and PhD courses at SPA, Vijayawada is mentioned below:

• Mode of application is offline
• After seats are allotted by JoSAA process, selected candidates are required to fill the application form available at the school counter
• Application fee is INR 100 and can be paid at the school

• Mode of application is online
• Candidates are required to fill the application form available online at the official website
• Application fee for PG programme/course is INR 2500
• After the candidate has paid the application fee and submitted the filled online form, he/she will be informed of subsequent admission rounds through e-mail/SMS

• Mode of application is offline
• The application form can be downloaded from the website
• The application form, duly filled, must be submitted with an application fees of INR 1000 (INR 500 in case of ST/SC and differently-abled students) by Demand Draft drawn on a Nationalized bank in favour of Director, SPA Vijayawada, Payable at Vijayawada

Here is a table with the seats intake of all the courses offered at SPA Vijayawada:

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• SPAV is a premier Centrally Funded Technical Institution (CFTI) directly under the MHRD, for excellence in the fields of Planning and Architecture
• The institute has a Design and Innovation Center to enhance and sustain the Intangible heritage
• SPAV publishes a half-yearly peer reviewed journal International Journal of Planning & Architectural Science to promote academic, research & innovation activities in the field of planning & arch