Anant National University Ahmedabad

Anant National University in Ahmedabad is a private university focused on the built environment — architecture and design are its core disciplines rather than add-ons to a general campus. Ahmedabad is a fitting host city: its modernist and vernacular architectural heritage, from Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn buildings to the old city's pols, gives design students unusually rich study material on their doorstep. Teaching is studio-led, with admission through the university's own process alongside national architecture entrance scores, at private fees. As a young institution its accreditation is modest — a B+ NAAC grade — and its alumni network is still forming. It holds a NIRF rank of 37 in architecture. It suits students set on architecture or design who want a specialised private campus in India's most architecture-literate city.