The SPA Council is headed by India's Minister of Human Resource Development and consists of the chairpersons and directors of all SPAs and senior officials from the MHRD.

[2] In 1942, Walter Sykes George and his associates established the Department of Architecture as part of the Delhi Polytechnic in Kashmere Gate.

1959 it was merged with the School of Town and Country Planning (established in 1955 by the Government of India), renamed to its current name and affiliated to the University of Delhi.

In 2014, Lok Sabha passed a bill to make all the three SPAs "centre of excellence" on the pattern of IITs and IIMs.

[citation needed] The current SPA Delhi campus is split in two blocks one each for Planning and Architecture.

Admission to most postgraduate courses in SPAs is granted through various interviews and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering.

Other factors that have contributed to the success of SPA are stringent faculty recruitment procedures and industry collaboration.

The procedure for selection of faculty in SPA is stricter as compared to other colleges offering similar degrees.