JEE Mains Paper 2 and NATA, both the exams are conducted for admission into 5 years Architecture courses. This being the similarity, there are also many differences between these two courses.

• JEE Mains is conducted by CBSE whereas NATA is conducted by Council of Architecture.
• The duration for both the exams is 3 Hours.
• It is believed that the difficulty level for JEE Mains is higher as compared to NATA.
• The institutes that give admission on the basis of JEE Mains paper 2 are NITs and GFTIs whereas by NATA you get admission into Private colleges and State level colleges, other than NITs and IITs.
• The mode of exam for both the exams is offline.

Both the exams are equally important and have their own value.

It depends on you where you want to take your admission.

If you want to take admission in NITs then you have to appear for JEE Main paper 2 and through NATA you can take admission in state level government colleges and private colleges as well.

You can check the top colleges for architecture below

School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi

JJ school of Arts and Architecture

IIT Kharagpur

Centre for Environment Planning, Ahmedabad

Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon

Chandigarh College of Architecture

Guru Nanak Dev University, Punjab

IIT Roorkee

Rizvi College of Architecture

RV College of Engineering

All the Best!!