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Manipal School of Architecture and Planning Ranking 2024: NIRF, The Week

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Manipal School of Architecture and Planning Rankings
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Manipal School of Architecture and Planning is a well-respected institution, consistently ranked in various categories by multiple ranking bodies. The institute has maintained strong rankings over the years, securing the #28 rank in the 'Architecture and Planning' category according to the NIRF ranking 2024. In the 'Architecture and Planning' category, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning ranked in the top 50 in the country for the second consecutive year in 2024.

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning Ranking

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Manipal School of Architecture and Planning Ranking Highlights
NIRF Ranking 2024
Manipal School of Architecture and Planning India Today Ranking 2020
Outlook Ranking 2025
The Week Ranking 2023
Manipal School of Architecture and Planning Course Ranking
Manipal School of Architecture and Planning Student Reviews

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning
Ranking Highlights

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning is ranked across multiple categories by various eminent national ranking bodies, including NIRF, The Week, etc. These ranking bodies have awarded Manipal School of Architecture and Planning good ranks. Students can check the following table to learn more about the Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, Manipal Academy of Higher Education rankings:

Rank publisher & CategoryRank

B.Arch

NIRF, 2024

#28

3rd Best among NIRF ranked colleges in Karnataka in 2024->

Design

India Today, 2020

#16

3rd Best among India Today ranked colleges in Karnataka in 2020->

Fashion Design

The Week, 2023

#20

3rd Best among The Week ranked colleges in Karnataka in 2023->

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning
NIRF Ranking 2024

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning has consistently been acknowledged as one of the leading institutions in various categories by NIRF 2024, standing out among other institutes in parameters such as Teaching, Graduation Outcome, Inclusivity & Research, and outstanding learning environment. In the 'Architecture and Planning' category, the institute's ranks have shown a decreasing trend as per the previous year's rankings. In 2024, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning fell 3 ranks

Category	2022	2023	2024
B.Arch	25	25	28

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning Ranking
NIRF Ranking Comparison

As per the NIRF ranking 2024, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning has received the #28 rank in the 'Architecture and Planning' category. It competes with Amity University Kolkata and NIT Patna for the NIRF 'Architecture and Planning' category rankings. Check the year-wise NIRF comparison analysis of the elite institutes in this space:

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning vs Other Institutes: NIRF Ranking 2024
College Name	Architecture and Planning 2024
Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, Manipal Academy of Higher Education	28
Amity University Kolkata	25
NIT Patna	27
IPU	29
Chandigarh College of Architecture	30

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning
India Today Ranking 2020

Category	2020
Design	16

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning
Outlook Ranking 2025

As per the overall score, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning has been placed at a good position by the Outlook-ICARE under the 'Architecture (Private)' category, reflecting its exceptional performance in areas like Teaching, Research, Graduation Outcomes, and creating an inclusive, quality learning environment.

Explore the Manipal School of Architecture and Planning latest rankings by other ranking bodies and their categories below:

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning Ranking
Outlook Ranking Comparison

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning secured #6 rank in the 'Architecture (Private)' category of Outlook-ICARE 2024 rankings. Its status is comparable to top institutions such as Chandigarh University and BMS College of Architecture. Check out how Manipal School of Architecture and Planning compares to other top-ranked universities year by year.

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning vs Other Institutes: Outlook-ICARE Ranking 2024
College Name	Architecture (Private) 2024
Manipal School of Architecture and Planning	6
Ansal University	4
RV College of Architecture	5
Chandigarh University	7
BMS College of Architecture	8

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning
The Week Ranking 2023

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning has constantly been among the top institutes under all the major categories by the The Week. View Manipal School of Architecture and Planning's year-by-year ranks by The Week 2023 in the table below:

Category	2020	2023
Design	13	– / –
Fashion Design	– / –	20

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning Ranking
The Week Ranking Comparison

According to the The Week 2023 ranking, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning has secured rank #20 and National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kangra has been ranked at #17. Check the The Week’s India's Top Government University ranking in the table provided below:

Manipal School of Architecture and Planning vs Other Institutes: The Week Ranking 2023
College Name	Fashion Design 2023
Manipal School of Arch & Planning	20
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kangra	17
Apeejay College of Fine Arts	19
Manipal School of Arch & Planning	20
Pearl Academy, Mumbai	22

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Kshitij Arya Verified Icon

Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) - Batch of 2025

4.4

4Placements4Infrastructure5Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life4Value for Money

Our college has good faculty members, average infrastructure, and excellent crowd and campus life.

Placements: Almost 70% of students are placed in this course. The highest salary package offered is 4 LPA and the lowest salary package offered is 2 LPA. Top recruiting companies like L&T, Studio Mumbai, Sanjay Puri Architects, Studio Lotus, etc., visit our campus. Almost 70% of students got internships. Internships completely depend on your personal skills.

Infrastructure: The infrastructure is not up to the mark. Air-conditioners are not available in classrooms and drafting tables are very old. The hostel is good and well-furnished. Both air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned rooms are available. Hot water and internet are available. Mess food is also very good. Both north Indian and south Indian food are available. Both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food are available. There are midnight canteens available in every hostel which are open till midnight.

Faculty: Faculty members are worth the fee you have paid. Most of them are IIT graduates or from other highly designated universities. This course curriculum is relevant. It makes students industry-ready. Semester exams are not so tough. If you are completely prepared, you can easily score above 75%. The pass percentage is 50%.

Reviewed on 20 Sep 2022Read More

Anonymous

Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) - Batch of 2022

3.6

3Placements5Infrastructure3Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life2Value for Money

College life at this college is very good.

Placements: The architecture course doesn't have any placements, so you must search for placements on your own. The training and placement cell might help. Batchmates got placed in various firms all over the country. Depending on performance, few students who joined as interns continued as junior architects.

Infrastructure: We share the same hostels with multiple colleges on the MIT campus, but all hostels are well-constructed. They are lively, and there are several student centres. The college is currently a part of the engineering department's building, but it will be soon shifted to its dedicated building.

Faculty: The syllabus of 2014 is different from what is followed currently. Students are not that industry-ready, but it is not necessarily specific to MSAP. Most of the teachers are helpful.

Other: We have only one fest named Opus and a sports event named Seige. More importance is given to academics here.

Reviewed on 26 Jul 2021Read More

Anonymous

B.Des. in Interior Design - Batch of 2027

3.4

3Placements4Infrastructure4Faculty3Crowd & Campus Life3Value for Money

Good infrastructure, no AC classrooms and some great faculty members every semester.

Placements: I'm not sure about the recruiting as a second-year student. They do mention a lot of placements and internship chances on their website and in their marketing campaigns. But I am not quite sure about this. As a first-year student, they had asked us to go for a summer internship of our choice and submit the necessary documents afterwards to prove the same.

Infrastructure: The infrastructure is, in fact, great but it takes a lot of time to adhere to the path and accesses. The feeling intends to get higher every year. However, there is no AC facility in any of the classrooms except for the CAD labs. It is hard to survive during the summer.

Faculty: The majority faculty members are excellently hire with great communication skills and fair mindedness. The end semester exams are of a total 12 hours drawing/ drafting, 2 day viva and 2 day of theory written exam. The curriculum is great except for some of the faculty are not given beforehand information on what has already been taught and looked at.

Reviewed on 22 Apr 2024Read More

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Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) - Batch of 2024

3Placements4Infrastructure4Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life4Value for Money

Our college provides good faculty members and infrastructure.

Placements: Since it's an architecture college, students usually opt to work under other firms. But in Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, you get a good experience and also with great faculty members and seniors. It makes it easier. Most of the alumni have their firms in large cities while others work for big firms.

Infrastructure: The infrastructure of the college is very good. They are going to shift to another building after a few years. Hostels are very spacious and have all the facilities required, and hygienic food is served in the mess. The campus also has some public gathering places to enjoy nature.

Faculty: The course curriculum is as prescribed by the council of architecture. Faculty members are well experienced and have good knowledge about the work. Most of the faculty members are holding PhDs in their respective subjects and are highly knowledgeable. They have a vast idea about most of the topics.

Other: I chose this course because of my interest in planning.

Reviewed on 26 Jul 2020Read More

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Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) - Batch of 2017

1Placements3Infrastructure3Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life3Value for Money

You have the key, do whatever you want with that.

Placements: There are no placements opportunities provided by the institution for architecture. However, students from our college have never failed to get into a good practice after college or during the course of the 1-year internship. Manipalites have a better chance of getting placed in practice in Bangalore due to its proximity to the college. There are students who try hard to get into cities like Mumbai or Ahmedabad, but the practices in these cities always give first preference to the students studying in the same city. But, this doesn't stop students from getting into top firms of India as there are alumni who are working for Pritzker award winner B V Doshi and highly famed architect Hafeez Contractor.

Infrastructure: Classrooms are 10m x 10m in size with a height of up to 7m. These working studios are large enough to offer convenient working spaces for every individual. Apart from that, there are AC seminar halls, jury halls and material laboratories. The architecture department is spacious enough to cater to every student's experimentation, and there are no restrictions as such. The whole building is a canvas to students.

Faculty: At the current stage of our college, there are many inexperienced faculty members and few experienced ones. Most of the experienced ones are pretty lazy and try to take up the shortest path method as many times as possible. The junior faculty are full of enthusiasm, but they lack the knowledge to cater to the current world of architecture. To make up with this, the institution (after plenty of experimentation with students, classes and curriculum) has a completely developed curriculum where learning happens at an enormous and zealous way as compared to our time.

Other: There is one fest conducted in every semester. One is a college fest by the title 'Opus', where architecture workshops are organised, and students take part in various interactive competitions ranging from essay writing to potpourri. The second fest 'Utsav', which is the university one, where all the institutions of Manipal compete against each other. Apart from that, there are sports competitions organised around the year.

Reviewed on 26 Mar 2018Read More

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Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) - Batch of 2022

4.6

5Placements4Infrastructure5Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life4Value for Money

Great infrastructure, satisfying teaching quality!

Placements: In the course of architecture, there are no placements as such. In the fifth year of your academics, you go for an internship (which is for the entire year). The college has tie ups with more than 200 firms and you apply to the ones of your choice and continue your 1 year internship with them thereafter. After getting your degree, you have to apply for jobs in different firms or start as an entrepreneur if you want your own firm right away. Architecture firms don't come to a college to hire employees. It does't work like the engineering courses.

Infrastructure: You get good quality drafting tables and good audio-visual systems in classrooms. Classes are big enough to accommodate 40 students (4 sections consisting 40 each). The only thing missing in classrooms are ACs, but its easy to get used to it as the rooms are comfortable enough. You get cold water facilities right next to the classrooms. Talking in a larger scale, Manipal has a great library right next to the architecture block, good sports facilities inside the campus and an excellent sports arena (called Marena), and free health check ups and referrals for manipal students with ambulance service in all hostels at KMC (the medical college of Manipal). Overall, campus hostels and facilities are above par level.

Faculty: Most of the teachers are very helpful, qualified, knowledgeable and most importantly (important for architecture students) approachable. Students have to go through an online faculty report at the end of every semester, scoring every faculty member of his/her class at different aspects. There are 4 teachers for 1 section in the main design subject (that's 1 teacher per 10 students), and it all the teachers give you their inputs into your work. You get good exposure into how the industry works through certain site visits, factory visits, lectures and seminars by guests, etc. Which really help in knowing how things work out.

Other: The campus is known as one of the best in India, and it truly is. The year is filled with fests, events, and the architecture department has its own fest as well. There are clubs which work on offering you international scholarships and internships as well.

Reviewed on 22 Mar 2018Read More

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Who are the top recruiters during Manipal School of Architecture and Planning placement drive?

Answered 3 months ago

The list of top recruiters during Manipal School of Architecture and Planning placements in recent past is presented below:

MSAP Manipal Top Recruiters
ATKINS	Keystone Architects
Space Matrix	Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail
Total Environment	STAPATI
FHD Consultants	Alex Jacob Architect

Krishnendu Chatterjee

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What is the average package offered at Manipal School of Architecture and Planning?

Answered 3 months ago

MSAP average package data is not released. However, according to Manipal School of Architecture and Planning NIRF report 2024, the course-wise median package offered over the past three years is presented below:

Course	Median Package (2021)	Median Package (2022)	Median Package (2023)
BArch	INR 2.4 LPA	INR 3.2 LPA	INR 3.48 LPA
MArch	INR 3.5 LPA	INR 4.15 LPA	INR 4.6 LPA

Krishnendu Chatterjee

Contributor-Level 10

What is the placement rate recorded during Manipal School of Architecture and Planning placements?

Answered 3 months ago

MSAP batch-placed data is not released. However, as per the Manipal School of Architecture and Planning NIRF report 2024, the placement rate recorded during MArch placements over the past three years was 100%.

The course-wise number of students placed over the past three years during BArch and MArch

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Krishnendu Chatterjee

Contributor-Level 10

How are the placements at Manipal School of Architecture and Planning?

Answered 3 months ago

According to the Manipal School of Architecture and Planning NIRF report 2024, the key highlights of MSAP Manipal placements 2023 as compared with 2022 and 2021 are presented below:

Particulars	BArch Placement Statistics (2021)	BArch Placement Statistics (2022)	BArch Placement Statistics (2023)
Median package	INR 2.4 LPA	INR 3.2 LPA	INR 3.48 LPA
Total Students	143	145	153
Students placed	38	76	84
Students opted for higher studies	22	17	21
Particulars	MArch Placement Statistics (2021)	MArch Placement Statistics (2022)	MArch Placement Statistics (2023)
Median package	INR 3.5 LPA	INR 4.15 LPA	INR 4.6 LPA
Total Students	19	20	14
Students placed	17	20	14
Students opted for higher studies	2	0	0

Krishnendu Chatterjee

Contributor-Level 10

Where are Manipal School of Architecture and Planning alumni placed?

Answered 3 months ago

According to data gathered from unofficial sources, the Education sector has placed the most number of MSAP Manipal students. The sector-wise MSAP Manipal alumni placement statistics are presented below: