Counting on Architecture

Abhiram Sharma
Assistant Professor
Sushant School of Art and Architecture

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Architect Registrations

Introduction
This paper deals with student intake to architecture colleges

And architect registration statistics

Focus on the years from 2009-2014

Conclusions

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Change at the scale we will see in the next ten years in

education in India is unprecedented in human history.
Prof. Pankaj Chandra- former Director, IIM Bangalore, at the Going Global
conference in Dubai, 2013

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Architectural Education

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1913
Department of Architecture at Sir JJ College of Art in Mumbai

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1941
Department of Architecture, Delhi Polytechnic (now SPA, New Delhi)

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1949
Department of Architecture at the MS University, Baroda

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1952
Department of Architecture and Planning at IIT Kharagpur

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1962
School of Architecture, CEPT, Ahemdabad

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1983
Council of Architecture created a national framework for
standards of architectural education.
For the 23 colleges of architecture in the country.

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Lovely School of Architecture and Design, Phagwara

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2010
Over 170 colleges of architecture in the country.

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2014
Over 330 colleges of architecture in the country.

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This increase is in large part due to the increase in privately

funded institutions, which have capitalized on the growing
demand for the degree.

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Targets to increase enrolment in higher

education by 10 million to bring Gross
Enrolment Ratio (GER) to 25% by 2017
GER in 2011-12 was 17.9%

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2014
Few colleges that have opened up in the last year

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CT Institute of Architecture
and Planning
Punjab Technical
University

School of Environment and

Architecture, Mumbai
Yashwantrao Chavan
Maharashtra Open
University

Anantrao Pawar College of

Architecture, Pune
University of Pune

Vedavyasa College of
Architecture, Malappuram
University of Calicut

RVS KVK School of

Architecture, Trichy
Anna University

Anantrao Pawar College of

Architecture
University of Pune

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Frequency Distribution- Age of Institute

1-5 years

6-15 years

16-25 years

26-35 years

Over 35 years old

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100

150

200

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Student Population
In colleges less than 5 years old
In all other colleges

43%
57%

Architect Registrations

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State wise break-up of intake

State wise intake

A. P.
Gujarat

Others

Haryana

Karnataka

U. P.

Maharashtra
Tamil Nadu

M. P.

Andhra Pradesh

1255

Gujarat

1180

Haryana

1360

Karnataka

1700

Maharashtra

3972

M. P.

1720

Tamil Nadu

4050

U. P.

2170

Others

3702

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Intake vs. Registrations

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9000
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1985

1987

1989

1991

1993

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Intake

1997

1999

2001

2003

Registrations

2005

2007

2009

2011

2013

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Since registrations started in 1975, the growth in numbers of new registrations has
always remained at or under 11% (with the exception of the first few years, when
architects already practicing in the field applied for registration), whereas the
student intake has increased by a larger proportion.
The industry has so far been absorbing architects growing in number at the rate of
10% per year.

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CoA has approximately 50,000 registered architects

for a nation of 1.237 billion
That translates to having one architect for every 25,000 people
This is far above the Chinese ratio: one architect for every 40,000 citizens

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Population per architect

across countries shows
China has the lowest, and
Italy has the highest
proportion, with ONE
architect for 414 people.

Architect Registrations

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Candidates entering each stream, and average salaries

Stream

Intake

Salaries*

Architecture

21109

3,03,000

M.B.B.S.

50078

4,57,000

Law

70000

3,56,000

Engineering

1760000

3,30,000

C.A.

7971

5,91,000

*Average starting salaries- www.payscale.com/research/IN/

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Total intake being over 20,000 students per year,

We have a student population of over 80,000
CoA fixed teacher-student ratio is 1:8

Necessitating a teacher strength of over 10,000

Implying that ONE in every FIVE architects
must hold some form of teaching position

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New schools >>

New teaching
opportunities.

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Student intake is growing at a rate that cannot be sustained by

the industry
Standards of architectural education are falling
Profession likely to witness a reduction in worth due to supply
outweighing demand
Academic positions are offering a decent compensation

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Entry

Country

A report on the academic pay in 28

countries places India at the fourth position,
in terms of the gross salaries.

Compared between the countries at a

standardized purchasing power parity rate.

Values in US PPP$

Average

Top

Armenia

405

538

665

Russia

433

617

910

China

259

720

1,107

Ethiopia

864

1,207

1,580

Kazakhstan

1,037

1,553

2,304

Latvia

1,087

1,785

2,654

Mexico

1,336

1,941

2,730

Czech Republic

1,655

2,495

3,967

Turkey

2,173

2,597

3,898

Colombia

1,965

2,702

4,058

Brazil

1,858

3,179

4,550

Japan

2,897

3,473

4,604

France

1,973

3,484

4,775

Argentina

3,151

3,755

4,385

Malaysia

2,824

4,628

7,864

Nigeria

2,758

4,629

6,229

Israel

3,525

4,747

6,377

Norway

4,491

4,940

5,847

Germany

4,885

5,141

6,383

Netherlands

3,472

5,313

7,123

Australia

3,930

5,713

7,499

United Kingdom

4,077

5,943

8,369

Saudi Arabia

3,457

6,002

8,524

United States

4,950

6,054

7,358

India

3,954

6,070

7,433

South Africa

3,927

6,531

9,330

Italy

3,525

6,955

9,118

Canada

5,733

7,196

9,485

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The requirements of an eighty thousand strong student

population must be met by the outnumbered registered
architects. The situation at this point is not likely to repeat
itself again, and in the apparent crisis is an opportunity to play
a highly effective role in the education of our future generation
of architects.

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What are the changes we can make to rectify the situation?

Thank You.
Abhiram Sharma
Assistant Professor
Sushant School of Art and Architecture