Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University

 

The Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University is an architecture and fine arts university located in, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was established by the erstwhile Hyderabad State in 1940, as the "College of Fine Arts",  the College has gradually grown in stature as the "Government College of Arts and Architecture" under the management of the Department of Technical Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh. With the establishment of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Oct. 1972, the college merged with the university and became a Constituent College of the JNTU and was called as JNTU College of Fine Arts. With the bifurcation of JNTU into several regional universities & one Architecture University, JNAFAU was established under A.P. Legislature Act No.31 of 2008. As per the above act, the JNTU College of Fine Arts has become one of the Constituent College of newly firmed Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture & Fine Arts University,  Hyderabad w.e.f. 2008-09.

JNAFAU has two colleges which offer several undergraduates, postgraduate and PhD research programs, with an emphasis of two different colleges: School Of Planning & Architecture and College of Fine Arts. In School Of Planning & Architecture offers courses such as Architecture, Digital Techniques for Design & Planning(DTDP), Facilities and Services Planning(FSP), Interior Designing, Planning, etc. in School of planning and architecture. In College of Fine Arts courses such as painting, Applied Arts, Photography, Animation, Sculpture, etc., are offered.