B Plan

B.Plan is a 4-year bachelors course program which involves basic knowledge and training about professional planning. Through the course, the students are given theoretical and practical knowledge about planning, engineering and designing urban human settlements. The main motive of the course is to prepare students for using the available resource to develop a sustainable, functional and innovative environment plan.

The aim of the course is also to prepare students for competitive business instilling general subjects as Fundamentals of Urban and Regional Planning, Culture and Technology, Ecology, Evolution of Aesthetics, Basic Architectural Design, Environment and Resource Development and Management.

B.Plan Course Highlights

The major highlights for B. Plan course are given in the table below

The student needs to fulfil the following eligibility criteria to get admission into B.Plan course:

• The student must have completed his 10+2 from a recognised school/board.
• The student must have acquired a minimum of 50% at the Higher Secondary level.
• Mathematics should be the main subject at 10+2 level.

B.Plan Admission Process

The admission process for Bachelors in Planning differ according to different colleges. Some colleges conduct the admission through an entrance test followed by a personal interview. Some university also conducts their personal entrance test for the admission. Some colleges also conduct direct admissions based on the marks scored by the student at the HSC level.

B.Plan Entrance Exams

Various entrance exams which are conducted for admission into bachelors of planning course are:

• JEE Main
• UPSEE (Uttar Pradesh State Entrance Exam)
• NATA (National Aptitude Test in Architecture)
• TANCET (Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test)
• JUEE (Jadavpur University Entrance Exam)

B.Plan Top colleges

Some of the top colleges/institutes in India which offer admission in B.Plan course are:

Lovely Professional University, Phagwara

College of Engineering, Pune

Ansal University, Gurgaon

Amity University, Raipur Chhattisgarh

Aurora’s Design Institute

GD Goenka University, Gurgaon

School of Planning and Architecture, Vijaywada

College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar

Integral University, Lucknow

Manipal University- School of Planning and Design, Jaipur

B.Plan Course Fee

The course fee for bachelors of planning course in India ranges somewhere in between 1-2 lakh. However, the course fee also depends on the type of college and the marks in entrance exams. For example, if the student has passed a national level exam, he can have a low fee structure as compared to the student with direct admission into the course. Similarly, a private institute offering B.Plan course will have a higher fee structure than a government college.

1st Year

2nd Year

3rd Year

4th Year 

After pursuing Bachelors of Planning, students can go either for government, private or self-employment. The various career options which student can choose from including:

• Urban Planner,
• Project Planner,
• Design Architect,
• Regional Planner, and
• Interior Designer.

For government jobs, the student can go for government housing schemes, transportation projects, PWD employment projects, etc. Some of the major responsibility which a planning professional has to manage is designing, surveying, planning, model making, project management, etc. The average salary for B. Plan professionals in India ranges in between INR 3-5 LPA.