You need to study physics; chemistry and math at the 10+2 level, and if engineering drawing is one of the options your school offers, take it. Then go in for B Arch (Bachelor's Degree in Architecture). This is a five years course and includes subjects like architectural design, planning, art appreciation, building management, nature and environment, methods of construction, history of art and architecture, among other things.

Architects work with architectural firms, can have their own set up or work with the Government. If working with the Government the work generally involves urban development.

• The Ministry of Urban Development is responsible for construction and maintenance of the Central Government buildings, residential accommodation and the management of Central Government land and property.
• The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) is responsible in a wide range of projects such as housing and commercial complexes, educational institutions, sports complexes, hospitals, factories, hostels, airports, roads, bridges etc. CPWD employs qualified engineers and architects. It has a Central Design Organization, which undertakes complex structural design work and also provides consultancy services. CPWD works all over India with its construction work.
  
• The National Building Organization promotes research in building and housing.
  
• The Town and Country Planning Organization is the apex technical advisory body on matters relating to Urban and regional planning strategies, research, monitoring and evaluation of Central Government Schemes.
  
• HUDCO is an apex housing body in the Public Sector, with the objectives of providing long term finance for construction of houses, setting up of new or satellite towns, financing or undertaking the setting up of building industries.
  
• The National Building Construction Corporation Ltd is engaged with a wide variety of civil construction contracts like roads, bridges, flyovers, industrial structures, water treatment plants, television towers, housing societies, hospitals, hotels and other commercial complexes in India and abroad. The Corporation provides consultancy services too.
  
• Hindustan Prefeb Ltd. looks after the manufacturing of pre-stressed cement concrete poles, water storage tanks and site construction works.
  
• City Development Authorities at the state level and district level are involved in various construction activities.

These are some of the organizations, which offer opportunities to architecture graduates. Besides these, there are other institutes and agencies responsible for construction work or manufacturing of raw material need architects. At state level, Public Works Departments are functioning on the lines of CPWD. State housing boards, municipal corporations, cooperative societies, private builders function in this area at the state and district level. A number of research institutes such as the Central Building Research Institute and the Central Road Research Institute are involved in research and development in this field. Researches are conducted to invent new methods and techniques for construction and new construction material, so that the cost of construction may be minimised.

Architects can also specialise in one type of work, like, hospitals, schools, or housing, or specialize in construction management or the management of their firm and do little design work. The choice of subjects ranges from Urban Designing to Regional Planning, Building Engineering and Management, Landscape Architecture to Architecture concerning traffic and Transport planning.

The Course teaches design, engineering and technology, humanities and arts and crafts. They aim at developing basic skills of drawing and an understanding of scale and measurement, basic materials and construction techniques.

Course structure involves laboratory studies and model making. Subjects like drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography etc. are taught along with history of art and architecture, climatology, surveying and levelling, theory of structures and structural design, art (drawing and painting), materials and methods of construction, history of art and architecture. Estimating and costing are the important subjects studied in the three years. In the fourth year the major thrust is mainly on the facets which are practical, like methods of construction, application of the theory of structures, the do's and don'ts of professional practice, concrete design projects followed by the field training for 24 weeks which ends finally in the last year in a dissertation and complete design project called 'thesis'.

Graduate and Post Graduate Degree Courses:

Graduate Courses (B.Arch.) are of five years' duration and are taken up after completion of + 2. Post Graduate courses are after the completion of B.Arch. and are of duration of 1½ years or 3 semesters.

Eastern Region:

Birla Institute of Technology
Mesra, Ranchi 835215.
- B.Arch.

Patna University, Bihar College of Engineering
Patna 800005.
- B.Arch.

University College of Engineering and Technology
Bhubaneswar 751003.
- B.Arch.

Bengal Engineering College
PO Botanical Gardens, Howrah 711103.
- B.Arch.

Jadavpur University, Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Calcutta 700032.
- B.Arch.

Northern Region:

Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya Institute of Environmental Planning
and Technology
34/3 New Palasia, Indore 452001.
- B.Arch.

IPS Academy, School of Arch.
Rajendra Nagar, Indore 452012.

Jiwaji University, Madhav Institute of Technology & Science
Gwalior 474004.
- B.Arch.

Govt. Engineering College
Raipur 492010.
- B.Arch.

Lucknow University, Govt. College of Architecture
Tagore Road, Lucknow 226002.
- B.Arch.

Aligarh University, Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology
Aligarh 202001.
- B.Arch.

University of Roorkee, Engineering College
Roorkee 247667.
- B.Arch.

Regional Engineering College
Allahabad 211004.
- B.Arch.

School of Planning & Architecture
4, Block-B, IP Estate, New Delhi 110002.
- B.Arch.
Planning (Entrance on All India basis for B Arch/B Planning Courses)
- M.Arch.
- Urban Design
- Bldg. Mgmt.
- Landscape Arch.
-.Master in planning with specialisation in regional planning housing,........ ..Urban transport & Environmental planning.

Sushant School of Art and Architecture
Sushant Lok, District Gurgaon, Haryana 122001.
- B.Arch.

TVB School of Habitat Studies
Sector D, Pocket II, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110 070.
- B.Arch.

Vastu Kala Academy, School of Arch & Interior Designing
9/1 Institutional Area, Aruna Asif Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067.
- B.Arch.

Swami Dayanand University, Choturam State College of Engineering
Murthal 131039.
- B.Arch.

Guru Nanak Dev University, Dept. of Architecture & Planning Amritsar 143005.
- B.Arch.

Planning Punjab University, Chandigarh College of Architecture Chandigarh 160012.
- M.Arch.

Western Region:

Regional Engineering College
Jaipur 302017.
- B.Arch.

MS University, Faculty of Technology and Engineering
Vadodara 390001.
- B.Arch.

South Gujarat University, Sarvajanik College of Engineering
Surat 395001.
- B.Arch.

Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology
Kasturba Lal Bhai Campus, Ahmedabad 381009.
- PG in Urban Design
- PG in Landscape Architecture

Goa University, College of Architecture
Campal Panaji, Goa -1.
- B.Arch.

University of Mumbai, Sir J J College of Architecture
78/3 Dr. D.N.Road, Mumbai 400001.
- M.Arch.

Indian Education Society's College of Architecture
791, Bandra Reclamation. Bandra (W), Mumbai 400050.
- B.Arch.

Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering
Sector-VIII, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai 4000614.
- B.Arch.

KRV Institute for Architecture
Vidyanidi Marg, Juhu Scheme, Mumbai 400049.
- B.Arch.

College of Architecture
S No. 341, Opp. Kherwada, PS Bandra (E), Mumbai 400051.
- B.Arch.

Pillais' College of Architecture
Sector-8, New Panvel (W), Bombay-Pune Road, Navi Mumbai 410206.
-B.Arch.

Rizvi College of Architecture
Rizvi Educational Complex, Off. Carter Road, Bandra, Mumbai 400050.
- B.Arch.

Dr. DY Patil College of Arch.
Sector 7, Nerul, Navi Mumbai 400706.
- B. Arch.

Regional Engineering College
Nagpur 440011.
- B.Arch.

College of Engineering & Technology
Near Shivaji Park, Akola 444701.
- B.Arch.

Pune University, Marathwada Mitra Mandal College of Architecture 302 A, Deccan Gymkhana, Pune - 411004.
- B.Arch.

BKP Sabha's College of Architecture
301 A, Tilak Road, Pune 411004.
- B.Arch.

Vasant Dada Patil College for Architecture
Shukrawarpeth, Pune 411002.
- B. Arch.

Dr. B. Nanavati College of Architecture for Women
Karve Nagar, Pune 411052.
- B.Arch.

GS Mandal's Marathwada Institute of Technology
Aurangabad 431003.
- B.Arch.

Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College
No. 6 CIDCO, Aurangabad 431001.
- B.Arch.

KITS Engineering College
Ramtek, Distt. Nagpur 441106.
- B.Arch.

Priyadarshini College of Engineering
Hingana Road, Nagpur 440017.
-B.Arch.

Manoharbhai Patel College of Engineering
Gondia 441614.
- B.Arch.

Parvara College of Engineering
Loni 413736, Ahmednagar.
- B.Arch.

Shivaji University, College of Architecture
1061-A, Shivaji Path, Kolhapur 416012.
- B.Arch.

DY Patil College of Engineering and Technology
Kasaba-Bawada, Kolhapur 416006.
- B.Arch.

Appasahab Birnale College of Arch
Shivaji Nagar, Sangli 416416.
- B.Arch.

NDMVP Samaj's College of Architecture
Shivajinagar, Gangapur Road, Nasik 422002.
- B.Arch.

SS Mandal's College of Arch.
Majrewadi, Sholapur 413225.
- B.Arch.

Southern Region:

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, School of Planning and Architecture
Mahavir Marg, Hyderabad 500028.
- B.Arch.
- M.Arch. Urban & Rural Planning

Regional Engineering
Calicut 673601.
- B.Arch.

College of Engineering
Waltair, Vishakhapatnam 530003.
- B.Arch.

Sri Venkateshwara College of Architecture
86 Madhapur, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad 500033.
- B. Arch.

Kerala University, College of Engineering
Thiruvanathapuram 695016.
- B.Arch.

Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Engineering
Thiruvananthapuram 695018.
- B.Arch.

Vishveswariah University, Bangalore Institute of Technology
KR Road, Visveswarapuram, Bangalore 560004.
- B.Arch.

BMS College of Engineering
Bull Temple Road, Bangalore, 560019.
- B.Arch.

Visveswariah University, College of Engineering
Bangalore 560001
- B.Arch.

Siddha Ganga Institute of Technology
Tumkur 572103.
- B.Arch.

RV College of Engineering
Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059.
- B.Arch.

MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Bangalore 560054.
- B.Arch.

Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering
Shavige, Bangalore 560078.
- B.Arch.

Malik Sandal Instt. of Art & Arch.
424, Narspur, Bijapur 586101.
- B.Arch.

PDA College of Engineering
Gulbarga 585102.
- B.Arch.

Gogte Institute of Technology
Udyambagh, Belgaum 590008.
- B.Arch.

Maland College of Engineering
PO Box 21, Hassan 573201.
- B.Arch.

Manipal Institute of Technology
Manipal 576119.
- B.Arch.

Periyar Maniammai College of Technology for Women
Periyar Nagar, Vallam, Tanjavur 613403.
- B.Arch.

Regional Engineering College
Tiruchirapalli 620015.
- B.Arch.

Anna University, School of Architecture & Planning
Sardar Patel Rd, Chennai 600025.
- B.Arch.
- M.Arch.
- B.Arch MTP

University of Madras, Arulmigu Meenakshi Amman College of Engineering
Vadamavandal, Namandi 604410.
- B.Arch.

Hindustan College of Engineering
Old Mahabalipuram Road, Palur, Chennai 603103.
- B.Arch.

Satyabama Engineering College
Jeppiar Nagar, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Chennai 600096.
- B.Arch.

Mohamed Sathak Engineering College
Kilakarai 623806.
- B.Arch.

Thiagarajan College of Engineering
Madurai 625015.
- B.Arch.

Adhiyamaan College of Engineering
MGR Nagar, Hossur 635125.
- B.Arch.

University of Madras Government College of Architecture
Mamallapuram 603104.
- B.Sc Temple Arch.
- BFA Sculpture

Admission Procedure and Application Deadline:

Entrance Test for B. Arch. Courses -The Council of Architecture conducts an aptitude test on an All India basis for colleges of Architecture, both private and government-run. Departments of architecture in engineering colleges select students on the basis of results of the entrance examination common to engineering courses. There is generally a section on aptitude for architecture. Other renowned institutions have special selection tests to identify suitable candidates.
Some colleges base their selection on class XII marks and also conduct an entrance examination. Some colleges like to judge artistic ability.
The Indian Institute of Technology selects candidates through a Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). The leading architectural institutions in the country are at New Delhi and Ahmedabad. They give a 30% weightage to class XII marks and the rest to the entrance examination. All colleges of architecture in the country only consider science students for admission to the course.

School of Planning and Architecture
4, Block -B Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi - 110002.

Selection on merit through entrance examination held in Delhi comprises of 2 tests of general knowledge and scholastic performance and IQ test and an aptitude test. The minimum marks required to qualify are 50% in this test. The test is in English.

Most architecture graduates begin working as interns at established firms. Once they have learnt the basics of the job, they can begin work on their own. The interns get paid upto Rs. 3500 to Rs. 5000. Once the internship gets over architects can earn anything between Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 20,000 a month. And once they have established their own firm, there is no limit to the amount of money they can earn. Earnings per project can go up to crores, depending on the complexity of the work involved.

Architects may be involved in all phases of development, from the initial discussion to final construction. Their duties demand a variety of skills like designing, engineering, managerial and supervisory.

Creative designing -
Some architects concentrate on design work. Design involves both artistic and scientific skills, i.e. producing something which is also technically feasible.

Managerial and administrative responsibilities -
This involves obtaining permission for building from the local authority, preparing and negotiating contracts, presenting drawings and estimates. As overall incharge, architects with Managerial and administrative responsibilities have to make regular visits to the site, checking the progress and quality of work. They are also responsible for Ensuring site and materials security and issuing instructions to the contractor.