NIFT Bangalore UG, PG, Certificate Courses 2025

A. The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) released the NIFT 2023 answer key on February 22, 2023. The question paper for NIFT 2023 was also be released alongside the answer key. Candidates were also able to challenge the answer key and question paper on payment of a non-refundable fee of INR 500 (per observation/objection). The feedback given by the candidate against the draft key is used by exam officials to prepare the final keys. The final answer key contains the correct and official keys for questions asked in the NIFT exam.

Bachelor Design is a 4 year professional UG course offerings various specializations like fashion designing, industrial design, textile design, product design and many more. Fashion technology is essentially any innovative tech that creates contemporary tools for the industry, whether they improve fashion production or consumption.

Over the past few years, the NIFT Bangalore placement rate stood around 85%. Refer to the table below to know the placement statistics:

Particulars	Placement Statistics
Placement rate	85%

NOTE: The above placement details are fetched from the Shiksha students' review. 

There are no official placement statistics. As per unofficial sources, 85% of students were placed in recent years and the highest package offered was INR 12 LPA. The table below mentions the NIFT Bangalore placement data:

Particulars	Placement Statistics
the highest package	INR 12 LPA
Placement rate	85%

NOTE: The above placement data is gathered from the Shiksha students' review. 

Some of the leading corporate giants that were part of NIFT Bangalore placements over the past few years are mentioned below:

NIFT Bangalore Placements: Top Recruiters
Adani Group	Fossil
Reliance Industries	Flipkart
Aditya Birla Group	Amazon
Madurai Fashion & Lifestyle	Arvind Mills

The placements are good at NIFT Bangalore. Talking about on campus placements, the average package offered is 3 LPA, and there were total 2100 offers in year 2022. The Designer students are placed at better levels as compared to production students according to the statistics provided. Various top level companies like Infosys, Nalli, H&M, Nalli, etc., recruit students from NIFT Bengalore. The college has excellent programmes to build students and give them a strong platform and foundation

There are no salary details available on the official website. However, students have disclosed the packages on the Shiksha students' review page. Take a look at the table below to know the NIFT Bangalore placement packages:

Particulars	Placement Statistics
the highest package	INR 12 LPA
the lowest package	INR 4 LPA
Average package	INR 8 LPA

Yes, you can apply for the National Institute of Fashion Technology entrance exam as the eligibility criteria say students appearing in class 12 or pass class 12 from any discipline can apply for BDes and students from the Science stream can apply for Bachelor in fashion technology. On the basis of Academic Qualification, eligibility: If a candidate is in Class 12/final year of college/final year of Diploma and does not submit the examination result at the time of admission or counselling, his/her admission depends on the following conditions: - Candidate below 18 years of age has to submit an affidavit on non-judicial stamp paper of INR10 in the prescribed Proforma duly signed by the parent/guardian. Submission of a false document is a punishable offence. Candidates have to submit their qualifying degree to the campus director or joint director of the allotted college on or before a date to be announced soon. In case a candidate fails to submit his/her qualifying degree at the time of admission, his/her admission will be considered null and void.

NIFT entrance examination is Institutional based examination which will only help you to get into NIFT whereas UCEED is a common Entrance Examination which is accepted by many design colleges and universities. So if you plan to get into only NIFT then you do have to give NIFT Entrance Exam but if you plan to apply in many universities then UCEED is a better option as you'll have many university choices and you can get admission on the basis of UCEED score.

The top level faculty members of NIFT Bangalore are around 50, whereas the students are around 1000 in numbers making it approximately 1:20 ratio of faculty members to students. The faculty members here are really determined, highly educated and specialised in their domains which in turn helps to build the strong foundation of those students studying. The admission list is also shortlisted on the basis of merit to enhance the growth of the college.

NIFT Bengaluru has 190 BDes and 38 BFTech seats. NIFT Bengaluru is one of the leading fashion design colleges in India. The admission cut-off for the institute tends to be higher, so the candidate must have a high merit rank to have a good chance of admission. Admission to both the BDes and BFTech courses at the institute will be conducted on the basis of the merit rank of the candidate in the NIFT 2023 exam. Candidates seeking admission to the BDes programme need to appear in the CAT GAT and Situation Test. However, BFTech applicants only need to take the GAT exam.

• Bring all your art supplies from home in order to avoid buying campus stationery. You’ll save thousands.
• 95% of the time, your professors won’t have time to read your assignments. So, they’ll judge them on how pretty they look. Therefore if you want nice marks, decorate the * outta everything you submit. Actual content doesn’t matter. In fact, I dare you to write the lyrics to gucci gang somewhere in your learning diary and I BET it’ll go unnoticed.
• Enjoy dressing all cute while you can. The hype will last for a month before you’re overloaded with work :)
• I know it’s very exciting when you’re working on a design you love and can’t wait to share it with the world. but always wait until AFTER the submission date, because hoes be plaigarizing. Shamelessly plaigarizing.

NIFT Bengaluru facilitates hostel only for first year girls, wherein the mess facility is really commendable. The food is really delicious and is schedule-based. According to food routine, it is provided.

NIFT lateral entry admission provides an opportunity of NIFT education to candidates who have completed their Diploma/Degree in relevant / related fields of Fashion Design & Technology for direct admission to the third semester of UG programmes of NIFT at NIFT campuses as listed in Annexure III. The candidates who have acquired Diploma/Degree will compete at an All India Entrance Exam to get lateral admission in the 3rd semester of UG programmes of NIFT. The admission to these candidates will be strictly on merit which will be prepared based on the performance of candidates in written test, studio test/technology aptitude test, and a personal interview. The candidates selected through lateral entry will join the regular UG students of NIFT in their second year for seats listed in Annexure III.

The faculty members here are really helpful, encouraging and specialised in their domains. The 1:20 ratio of faculty members to students helps faculty members concentrate on each tier of students thus strengthening their platform for future. NIFT Bangalore provides a heartfull of open aura to all the students for their raising questions, ideas, etc.,  

The main purpose of studying i.e. the package offered, NIFT Bangalore offers a whooping 3LPA average salary. It is also the third ranked among all NIFTs. It has basic facilities like hostel (for first year female students only), medical assistance in form of infirmary, electricity, water, Wi-fi, etc.,  

The cutoff for BDes in Textile Design at NIFT Bangalore is 701 for the year 2022. Admission to the BDes Textile Design programme is entrance based. Candidates are required to appear for NIFT Entrance Exam. NIFT cutoff depends on variables like seat matrix, category of the candidate, total applications, category, Common Merit Rank (CMR) of the candidate in NIFT 2023, and the popularity (or ranking) of the institute. If any of these variables change, the cut-off would also change.

For the General category, it is quite easy to get any designing specialisations except Master of Fashion Management (MFM) and Master of Design (M.Des.) at NIFT Bangalore with a NIFT rank of 70, as most of the designing programs has higher cutoffs than the cutoff acquired. Other than the above mentioned courses, candidates belonging to the General category have many options to get admission at NIFT Bangalore. Considering the NIFT Bangalore cutoff 2025 for the Round 1 seat allotment results, the needed cutoff rank to get into the institute stood between 57 and 856. Some interdisciplinary degree programs like B.Des. in Knitwear Design, or B.Des. in Textile Design, may admit students with slightly higher ranks. Candidates can look into the table below to go through the programme available for admission at 70 rank at NIFT Bangalore as per the NIFT Bangalore 2025 cutoff:

Course	2025
B.Des. in Accessory Design	313
B.Des. in Textile Design	652
B.Des. in Knitwear Design	856
B.Des. in Fashion Communication	127
B.F.Tech. in Apparel Production	119

 

 

NIFT Bangalore releases course-wise merit ranks after the conclusion of the NIFT Entrance Exam. The selection procedure is further carried out as per the merit ranks. The opening and closing merit rank 2022 for some of the courses is mentioned below:

Course	Opening CMR	Closing CMR
Fashion Design	46	169
Apparel Production	8	217
Fashion Communication	31	225
MDes	5	74
Master of Fashion Management	15	72
Master of Fashion Technology	4	68

Check all the course's merit list rank here.

Yes, NIFT Bangalore offers admission to foreign students and the criteria for Bachelors states that, "General Certificate Education (GCE) Examination (London/Cambridge/Sri-Lanka) at the Advanced (A) level/ International Baccalaureate (IB)".