National Institute of Design Ahmedabad Paldi Answered Questions

Hi Pejush!
NID conducts an entrance exam of its own. You can find a detailed guidance about the exam, its eligibility, exam pattern, syllabus etc. By clicking on this link https://www.shiksha.com/design/communication-design/exams/nid-entrance-exam?course=447.

NID is a premier design college in India and has a very well trained faculty. It offers various courses in design field like fashion design, product design, web design, ceramic and glass design, interior design, lifestyle accessory design and so on at UG as well as PG level.
To secure admission at NID, you need to appear for a written exam which takes place in the first week of January every year. This is followed by a Studio Test which also has audio-visual questions and finally one has to appear for the interview round.
The institute is known for its placements. Many big MNCs have hired students from NID including Amazon Creative services, Deloitte Digital, Disney India, Hyundai, Godrej, Paytm etc.

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Hi,
There is no room for doubt, you should definitely go for National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad over Apeejay Stya University. It's a government college and the best college for design in India and comes under the list of top 50 colleges all over the world. It provides quality education and design knowledge. the education programmes under each discipline are designed to meet these objectives so that students are able to progress through their courses in an integrated manner.
The curriculum should generate the scope for opportunities to integrate experiential and explorative learning in order to understand and achieve a high degree of creative innovation and quality.
A flexible framework for student-centered learning, whereby courses and assignments are able to harness the potential each student has in terms of creative expression and multi-dimensional learning.
Each programme must provide the opportunity to identify, plan and achieve learning goals through an understanding of cultural, social and technological developments in the context of historical, contemporary and individual concerns.
The objective, learning value and standard for each course are predetermined, but the context and relevance is repositioned by the faculty depending on the changing realities of the design profession and the level of professional competence achieved and demonstrated by the each group of students.
To provide interdisciplinary and progressive knowledge of design but with a focused understanding of an area of specialisation suited to the professional design practice.
There should be ample opportunity to develop innovative and exploratory thinking, necessary technical skills and the ability to locate individual design approaches within the appropriate professional context. To enable the students to develop a sense of social and professional commitments. They must learn to own the responsibility for their professional decisions.
The ability to develop critical, analytical, speculative and reflective problem-solving skills in an integrated manner. To understand the scenario cum user based and culture centric approach of design.
To provide thorough understanding of technical, managerial and design fundamentals along with a strong exposure to real life situations so that they are able to experience how the intellectual, creative and other skills acquired could be adopted to benefit the user, society and industry.

Hi,
There's no second thought before I write this. Of course, it has to be NID, as it's an institute of national importance. AAFT, on the other hand is a private institute and is known for B.Des as well. NID is best known for design courses, and you will have ample of opportunities after passing out from there. Coming to it's placements, several graduates tend to start their own studio. According to LinkedIn, 377 out of 3500 graduates are Entrepreneurs (Nowhere close to the 60% stat by Sumit Shah, but I hope he can give some source). Popular companies (based on no. Of NIDians employed) are Cognizant, Microsoft, SAP, Adobe, Samsung, Godrej, HFI etc.
All your main/subject questions lead to one destination that is how much money you can earn after graduating from NID. If that is the only concern you have, then start your own business to earn. NID won't teach you how to earn money. You have to use your 100% brains, if you have to be on the top. How NID can help you to put you in good companies? It also depends on the stream you apply for. \
Now look at another scenario. Let's say you love textile design, and you want to apply for Textile/Apparel design at NID, right. What if I tell you that go for some of the UX related courses in NID to get more packages, will you just listen to me and go ahead with it? If yes, then you have got no passion for a particular design rather than earning money. If that is the case, then stop doing it. Have a vision where do you want to be and as a what. You will earn money for sure after graduating from colleges, like NID or IIT that would take some time along with the level of industry experience you have.

Hey,
Since you have asked this question in design thread, I am assuming that you want to opt for any Master's degree course in Design after completing your M.Tech in computer science. If it is so then you can go for any design course depending on your interest in jewellery, clothing or shoes, etc., or if you want to use your skills of computer science, you can understand the needs of particular department and design required software or application for the same. This is applicable for all the courses. Also, you can opt for any technical course like MFT i.e Masters in fashion technology which will let you aware of what fashion world is up to and you can master the skills of implementing the fashion at the mass level. It will help you and in a factory or buying house. So, basically, it depends on your interest and whether you want to utilise your existing knowledge or not.
Thanks.

Don't worry about packages, you will get enough to drive a 3 series, if you are really good at it. But, design is more about passion, individuality, and joy of creation, if money is your biggest concern, don't come to this industry, you will be disappointed because there are people in NID who will work just for free food, if they get placed in Ferrari.
Designers are crazy people, money is not the first thing that excites us. Last year maximum placements were done by Samsung. However, the highest package went up to INR 72 lac per annum by a Ludhiana based company.

Hi Anushka,
You can find a set of sample question papers of NID here
https://www.shiksha.com/design/industrial-product-design/articles/sample-questions-for-nid-entrance-exam-2017-blogId-11946
https://www.shiksha.com/design/communication-design/exams/nid-entrance-exam/sample-papers