The GITAM School of Architecture, Visakhapatnam (GSA) is a constituent institute of Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management located in

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India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...

, specializing education and research in the field of

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

. It was established in 2011.

Academics

It offers

Bachelor of Architecture The Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) is a bachelor's degree designed to satisfy the academic requirement of practising architecture around the world. Australia Architectural education in Australia varies depending on the university offering th ...

(B. Arch.) and

Master of Architecture The “Master of Architecture”(M.Arch or MArch) or a “Bachelor of Architecture” is a professional degree in architecture, qualifying the graduate to move through the various stages of professional accreditation (internship, exams) that res ...

(M. Arch.).

Admission

Admissions to the under graduate programme is through the

Joint Entrance Examination The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is an engineering entrance assessment conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India. It is constituted by two different examinations: the JEE-Main and the JEE-Advanced. The Joint Sea ...

(JEE) or

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conducted by the

Council of Architecture The Council of Architecture is a statutory body constituted by the Government of India under the provisions of the Architects Act, 1972, enacted by the Parliament of India, which came into force on 1 September 1972. The Act provides for regis ...

. Foreign nationals, non-resident Indians (NRIs) and persons of Indian origin (PIOs) candidates are eligible to apply and should have qualifications from the foreign boards/universities recognized as equivalent by the

Association of Indian Universities Association of Indian Universities (AIU) is an organisation and association of major universities in India. It is based in Delhi. It evaluates the courses, syllabi, standards, and credits of foreign Universities pursued abroad and equates them ...

(AIU) to be shortlisted for further evaluations.

Facilities

The present campus has two non A.C. hostels which are in the campus. One is for boys, another for girls.

Library

Both GSA Library and Knowledge Resource Centre in GITAM holds knowledge resources predominantly related to

. The entire library collection including the CD-ROM and online databases which are made available through the institute’s network. Users can access the online databases, Digital library and find out the real-time availability of library materials from their own computer terminals. The library offers a high range of information services set to the highest professional standards. The library resource includes over 300 books which are related to fields of architecture, 75 journals (25 foreign and 50 Indian) specific to the academic and research needs of the academic community and over 5000 selective e-journals in full-text.

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