Sushant School of Art and Architecture was established in September 1989 by Charanjiv Charitable Trust, a premier voluntary organization devoted to the cause of Education. Located in a sprawling new campus spread over 14 acres of land with scenic Aravali hills as the backdrop, the School offers state of Art infrastructure with modern facilities. The school is recognized by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Council of Architecture. Apart from offering a 5 years Degree Programme leading to Bachelor of Architecture the School is in the process of starting a Masters Programme in Real Estate Planning and Development in collaboration with Institute of Housing Studies (IHS) and Urban Management Center of Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Sushant School is also an affiliate member of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), U.S.A.
Sushant School has established a reputation for being among the best in the country, a place for creative growth and development which encourages freedom of thought and expression, a place of diversity wherein parallel and competing Schools of thought coexist and which allow students to make their own choices. The faculty is drawn from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, with academic thrusts as diverse as Fine Arts, Digital Architecture, Urbanism and Architecture of the City and Habitat and Human Settlements. The ultimate choice a student makes for future professional trajectory is entirely her or his own. Thus courses chartered by students are far and wide reflecting attributes of local specificity and global significance.
Earlier this year School recorded phenomenal success with graduate admissions in top grade institution outside India, the number of admissions perhaps exceeding those of any other school in India. Sushant School Alumni have in the past diversified in the field as varied as Urban Planning, Digital Architecture, Industrial Design, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Real Estate Management etc. The School is executing exchange programmes with many Universities and Institutions in its pursuit of academic excellence. Among these are: Oxford Brookes University, University of York, University of Melbourne, Frank Lloyd Foundation, USA, University of Virginia, University British Columbia, Vancouver, University of Montreal, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
