National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad : Fees, Admission Procedure 2025, Entrance Exam Accepted & Placements

Candidates applying for the M.Des. programme (any discipline) must fulfill the following criteria:

Age Limit

• Candidates upto 30 years of age on or before 30 June 2017 are eligible to apply (relaxable by three years for candidates belonging to reserved category).
• Indian Nationals in the general category and candidates in overseas category born on or before 30 June 1987 are not eligible for admission.
• Indian Nationals in reserved category (OBC-NCL, SC, ST & PwD) born on or before 30 June 1984 are not eligible for admission.

Educational Qualification

Applicants must either have appeared for (results awaited), passed or will be appearing for any of the following degree examinations before July 2017: 

Bachelor's degree in any discipline under the 10+2+4 (or more) systems, from any university or institute recognized by law in India.

Diploma in design under the 10+2+4 system, from any university or institute recognized by law in India.

                                                     OR

Applicants must either have appeared for (results awaited) or passed, before July 2016, a Bachelor's degree in any discipline under the 10+2+3 system from any university or institute recognized by law in India.

Note

In case the degree/cerficate has been obtained from a university/board of any country other than India, an equivalent certificate must be obtained by the candidate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi, prior to admission. Visit www.aiuweb.org for  more details.

Candidates applying for the B.Des. programme must fulfill the following criteria:

Age Limit

• Candidates upto 20 years of age on or before 30 June 2017 are eligible to apply (relaxable by three years for candidates belonging to reserved category).
• Indian nationals applying in the general category and candidates in overseas category born on or before 30 June 1997 are not eligible.
• Indian nationals in reserved category (OBC-NCL, SC, ST & PwD) born on or before 30 June 1994 are not eligible.

Educational Qualification

Applications for academic year 2017–18 are open to applicants who have passed or will appear for higher secondary (10+2) qualifying examinations in the academic year 2016–17 from any recognised board of education such as CBSE, IB, ICSE or their equivalent.

Examinations considered equivalent to these are as follows:

• Final examination of the 10+2 system under a central or state board recognized by the Association of Indian Universities.
• Intermediate or two-year pre-university examination under a board or university recognized by the Association of Indian Universities.
• Final examination of the two-year course of the Joint Services Wing of the National Defence Academy.
• Senior secondary school examination under the National Institute of Open Schooling, with a minimum of five subjects.
• Any public school, board or university examination completed in India or in any foreign country recognised as equivalent to the 10+2 system by the Association of Indian Universities
• H.S.C. vocational examination.
• General Certificate Education (GCE) examination at the Advanced (A) level taken in London, Cambridge or Sri Lanka.
• High School Certificate Examination from Cambridge University or an International Baccalaureate diploma from the International Baccalaureate Office, Geneva.
• Candidates who have completed final examinations for class XII (or equivalent) outside India or from a board not specified above should produce a certificate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) confirming that the examination they have passed is equivalent to the Class XII examination conducted in India.