Crescent School of Architecture, Chennai

The constituent college was set up in the year 2010 at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and is known as Crescent School of Architecture, popularly abbreviated as CSA. As the name suggests, this is a prestigious college to train architects and designers of the future with sound academic and hands-on experience. CSA has become one of the pioneers in architectural education, as approved by the Council of Architecture.

The college has a team of 40 highly qualified professionals and qualified teachers to provide the desired student-teacher ratio. CSA offers three full-time programmes: The B. Arch, M. Arch, and B. Des have an enrolment capacity of 140 students spread across the two courses. It has a co-educational policy on campus, which makes it possible for young architects and designers to learn in a mixed group.

Crescent School of Architecture is a constituent college of BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology (BSAU), Chennai . CSA boasts of a comfortable and well-equipped learning unit that will create the appropriate learning environment for the students.

The college also has this facility of a library facility where some 2000 volumes of national and international books and journals are subscribed for extensive reference for research and study. It has standard desktops with the best software to ensure that students practise building construction and documentation.

To enhance practical learning, CSA has specialised tools like Sera Thermopolis cutting machines, measuring tapes, carving toolkits, etc. , for the Model Making Workshop. The climatology lab, where students can affect and study climatology factors, is accompanied by a “Total Weather Station”.

The college also has other facilities like JC, a dining hall, an assembly hall and a sports complex so that the students can be fully entertained besides the classroom learning. The three courses offered at the Crescent School of Architecture are all launched as full-time programmes.

This diverse offering of programmes fits multiple interests that people may have in relation to architecture and design, therefore affording the student multiple ways to engage in the subject matter that are of interest to them. Degree Name Total Number of Seats B. Arch 80 B. Des 40 M.

Arch 20 The entry requirements that are used when admitting students to the Crescent School of Architecture are aimed at identifying the best-qualified students to join the different programme offers at the school. For the B. Arch programme, CSA accepts scores from two national-level entrance exams: the JEE Main test and the NATA test.

These tests are devoted to the evaluation of the candidates’ general suitability for the study of architecture as well as their knowledge of some subjects, such as mathematics and drawing.