Analysis of Current Internship Practice and its Relevance with Curriculum: A Case Study of Architecture School

The experience gained by the students through Internship gives them opportunity to connect to real world of practice and plays crucial role in Architecture education. Based on the discussion and survey response of over 60 students of Anant Institute of Architecture, Ahmedabad, who are either undergoing or have undergone internship, key positive aspects, challenges, or shortcomings of architectural internships was identified. Results revealed that the students found internship as a life changer and has helped them in improving various hard and soft skill but still observed that there is vast gap between the education and the practice and therefore there is need for collaboration between university and industry to make curriculum more effective and relevant to the industry for which there is need to conduct more research on analysing