National Institute of Fashion Technology, Hyderabad

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NIFT Hyderabad Ranking 2024: India Today

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NIFT Hyderabad Rankings
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NIFT Hyderabad is a leading educational institution that consistently ranks high in various national evaluations by different ranking bodies. It was ranked #4 in the India Today 2024 'Fashion Design' category, reflecting its continued success in providing quality education. In the 'Fashion Design' category, NIFT Hyderabad ranked in the top 5 in the country for the second consecutive year in 2024.

NIFT Hyderabad Ranking

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India Today Ranking 2025
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NIFT Hyderabad The Week Ranking 2025
NIFT Hyderabad Course Ranking
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NIFT Hyderabad
Ranking Highlights

NIFT Hyderabad has received rankings in various categories by several important national ranking bodies, namely India Today, Outlook-ICARE, etc. These ranking bodies have provided NIFT Hyderabad with good ranks. Candidates can refer to the details tabulated below for more information regarding the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Hyderabad rankings:

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Fashion Design

The Week, 2025

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NIFT Hyderabad
India Today Ranking 2025

NIFT Hyderabad has been ranked well by the India Today under the 'Fashion Design' category. Through the years, the India Today rankings for NIFT Hyderabad indicate the institute's strong performance in crucial areas such as the Quality of Education, Conducting Impactful Research, the Expertise of Faculty members, and Overall Institutional Management. These good rankings not only prove the institute's positive reputation but also highlight its excellence across diverse domains, evaluated against the standards established by the India Today. It has been seen that in the 'Fashion Design' category, the institute's ranks have shown an increasing trend when evaluated against the ranking of the prior year. In 2024, NIFT Hyderabad climbed 1 rank to #4 rank in the 'Fashion Design' category by the India Today ranking. This is the second consecutive year that the institute has ascended in the rankings.

Explore the most recent rankings from other ranking bodies and their respective categories below.

Category	2023	2024	2025
Fashion Design	5	4	4

NIFT Hyderabad Ranking
India Today Ranking Comparison

According to the India Today ranking 2024, NIFT Hyderabad received #4 rank in the 'Fashion Design' category. It holds a comparable status to the most prestigious universities such as NIFT Chennai, and NIFT Gandhinagar for India Today rankings under the 'Fashion Design' category. Check out the year-by-year comparison of NIFT Hyderabad with other top institutes:

NIFT Hyderabad vs Other Institutes: India Today Ranking 2024
College Name	Fashion Design 2024
NIFT Hyderabad	4
NIFT Mumbai	2
NIFT Bangalore	3
NIFT Chennai	5
NIFT Gandhinagar	6

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Fashion Design

College	Ranking
NIFT Delhi Compare	1
NIFT Bangalore Compare	2
NIFT Mumbai Compare	3
NIFT Hyderabad	4
NIFT Chennai Compare	5
NIFT Gandhinagar Compare	6
NIFT Patna Compare	6

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NIFT Hyderabad
Outlook Ranking 2025

According to the rankings from Outlook-ICARE, NIFT Hyderabad outperformed various other institutes, securing a higher position for its achievements in Teaching, Graduation Success Rates, Research, and creating an inclusive, quality learning environment.

Find below the latest rankings and category breakdowns from several ranking bodies.

NIFT Hyderabad Ranking
Outlook Ranking Comparison

As per the Outlook-ICARE 2024 rankings, NIFT Hyderabad achieved a rank #7 in the 'Fashion Design (Government)' category. It stands on par with renowned institutions like NIFT Kolkata, and NIFT Raebareli under the Outlook-ICARE 'Fashion Design (Government)' category. Explore the year-wise comparison of NIFT Hyderabad with other leading institutes below.

NIFT Hyderabad vs Other Institutes: Outlook-ICARE Ranking 2024
College Name	Fashion Design (Government) 2024
NIFT Hyderabad	7
NIFT Patna	5
NIFT Gandhinagar	6
NIFT Kolkata	8
NIFT Raebareli	9

NIFT Hyderabad
The Week Ranking 2025

Category	2025
Fashion Design	7

NIFT Hyderabad Ranking
The Week Ranking Comparison

Similar ranked Fashion Design colleges by The Week

Fashion Design

College	Ranking
NIFT Gandhinagar Compare	4
NIFT Mumbai Compare	5
NIFT Kolkata Compare	6
NIFT Hyderabad	7
Pearl Academy New Delhi Compare	8
NIFT Bhubaneswar Compare	9
NIFT Raebareli Compare	10

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NIFT Hyderabad
Course Ranking

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Ranked by	2023	2024	2025
India Today	5	4	4
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Some of the top recruiters of NIFT Kolkata are Arvind Mills, Globus, GAP, Raymond, Park Avenue, Proline, Nike, Lifestyle, etc.

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Only a few companies recruited students during our tenure, but those companies were not from the knitwear designing stream.

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B.Des. in Fashion Design - Batch of 2024

4.6

5Placements4Infrastructure5Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life4Value for Money

I am absolutely satisfied with this college.

Placements: Students have to register to take part in placement drives which use a centralised placement method. Companies visit our college to provide pre-placement offers or on-campus placement drives. Around 80% of students were placed in 2021. The highest salary package offered is 6 LPA. Around 80% to 90% of students get job offers in our college. Internships are provided in our college.

Infrastructure: Labs and studios are well-equipped. Wi-Fi is available all over the campus. There is an auditorium with 350 seats, a spacious resource center, a college counsellor, a stationary, a gym, a cafeteria, and indoor and outdoor sports facilities. Canteen and mess serve 4 times delicious meals including breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner.

Faculty: Most of the faculty members in our college are alumni from NIFT. They are very well qualified and experienced with a remarkable teaching techniques. The course curriculum provides knowledge about the topic and prepare students for the industry by methods like jury. Exams are conducted strictly and it has a fair grading criteria. Students should have minimum of 75% attendance in all subjects. The pass SGPA is 6.

Other: Students are provided with craft cluster visits to broaden their knowledge and improve skills. Student exchange programs like FIT, so that they can complete a semester in abroad universities. Major events are spectrum, converge, and other cultural events and programs are organised in our college.

Reviewed on 26 Oct 2022Read More

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B.F.Tech. in Apparel Production (Lateral Entry) - Batch of 2025

3.8

3Placements3Infrastructure4Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life4Value for Money

Overall, it is a good college with good faculty, but hostels could get a little better.

Placements: Out of all the courses that we have, maximum placements are obtained by students studying in the Fashion Communication and Fashion Technology department. They are placed in brands like Arvind Mills, Aditya Birla Group, Louis Philippe, etc. Students get better internships outside.

Infrastructure: There are better hostels on other main campuses like Gandhinagar, Bangalore, and Delhi. The Hyderabad campus is also good. It's the third-largest campus of all. The mess facilities have been getting better over a period of time. Sports are also taken care of.

Faculty: The difficulty level is not that high. Faculty members are mostly good at considering the marks of students. We have a proper jury, where a panel of two internals and one external sits together to review our work. The average comes out to be quite good. Students work hard a lot, day and night, and they do get what they deserve.

Other: The best part about our college is that we have many college events, which enhance our opportunities for overall engagement and develop our personalities. Our college offers scholarships. There are many extracurricular activities and competitions. Modeling for instance is the other name of our fashion college.

Reviewed on 16 Jun 2022Read More

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B.Des. in Fashion Design - Batch of 2024

4.2

3Placements5Infrastructure4Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life4Value for Money

The college has really good infrastructure, faculty, and average placements.

Placements: Our college offers campus placements, and students also get PPO. Students doing graduation programmes get pre-placement offers as well. The campus offers placements for the positions of associate designer for B.Des students and production managers for B.FTech students.

Infrastructure: The campus is really good and spacious. We are provided with lots of activities and facilities, such as pool tables, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, etc. Our college has a good dance team for all the dance enthusiasts. The cultural team organises a lot of events and trips throughout the year for the students.

Faculty: The college has a tough but insightful exam system with a good curriculum. The faculty was instructive but helpful. There are juries that are conducted in order to evaluate your performance for the semester. The resource centre has many informative books, guides, and artefacts for the students.

Other: Our college has conducted a lot of fests and fashion shows for the students with international exchange programmes and good scholarships.

Reviewed on 8 May 2022Read More

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B.Des. in Knitwear Design - Batch of 2025

4Placements3Infrastructure5Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life3Value for Money

Good faculty, many amenities, well maintained hostels, classes and labs .

Placements: This years pass outs are currently working hard on their internships and last year projects. Some of them have already received the placements while some are still looking for them. In my batch, as far as I know, two people have received their placements from 60,000 - 120000 / month.

Infrastructure: The classes are well built and air conditioned. There are a few amenities for students to pass time during their break, for instance a pool table and a TT table. The labs are well maintained and have everything you could possibly need for assignments. The hostels are well maintained and are in a twin-sharing system. The Hyderabad campus also provides a guest house facility for parents to stay in when they drop their children to college. The cost for that is 900 rs per night. The washrooms can use more maintenance, but they're relatively better than most campuses.

Faculty: The teachers are well qualified with most of them having at least 14 years of experience in teaching at nift. The teaching quality is better offline, as online is not that effective. The course curriculum is relevant and provides deepening specializations which makes the students industry ready. Usually during offline we have jury where a few judges and the student sit together and evaluate the work, however due to the current covid situation the jury assignments are online where we just need to submit pdfs for our works and are given grades accordingly.

Other: I chose knitwear design as it's relatively similar to fashion design and I would gain experience in working with different fabrics. There are many fest held in the campus when I was there for a few months. We had dandia night, bonfires, Diwali celebrations, craft bazaar and much more. The campus crowd is decent as people come from all types of places and states.

Reviewed on 19 Jan 2022Read More

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B.Des. in Fashion Communication - Batch of 2023

4.6

4Placements5Infrastructure5Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life4Value for Money

It has the best infrastructure and the best faculty members across India.

Placements: NIFT Hyderabad provides 100% placements. Top international and national brands come every year to recruit new people. The lowest and the highest amount of salary package depends on the work and your department, but still, you could find a good placement with connections.

Infrastructure: It has the best canteen across all NIFT campuses in Hyderabad. The library which is called the Resource Center is also top-notch in the Hyderabad campus. We have plenty of labs, and NIFT provides a good amount of resources. Every year NIFT organises an inter-college sports competition called converge which is very helpful for students.

Faculty: Faculty members in NIFT are interchangeable. It doesn't matter which city you are choosing to study in. Most of the faculty members are experienced, and departments are very helpful with students. NIFT has collaborated with a lot of artisans, and it helps a lot to the students who are from a not artistic background.

Other: If you are more in fashion then NIFT is a good college for design. Otherwise, NID and IIT could top the list.

Reviewed on 4 Sep 2021Read More

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B.Des. in Accessory Design - Batch of 2023

4.6

4Placements5Infrastructure5Faculty4Crowd & Campus Life5Value for Money

Overall, I am completely satisfied with our college.

Placements: About 60%-70% of the students from our batch got placements. The highest salary package offered is about 20 LPA, and the lowest salary package offered is 8 LPA. Top recruiting companies here are Tanishq, Peppery, Kalyan Jewellers and Woodland also. Almost 90% of the students got internships, and they have the freedom to choose their own brand to work with. Top roles offered in our course are jewellery design, home decor, furniture design, etc.

Infrastructure: The infrastructure provided for this course in NIFT Hyderabad is outstanding. You get everything which you want for the course like every lab for practical, Wi-Fi connectivity on the entire campus and a library with all books you need. Classrooms are perfectly designed, and there is an auditorium and a playground. Everything is available here. There's no hostel for boys, but for girls, there's a hostel, which is well designed. The food served in the girls' hostel is like homemade food. Emergency medical facilities are also available. Wi-Fi facility is provided in the hostel, and the hostel is situated inside the campus only with full security.

Faculty: All the faculty members here are very helpful and have great knowledge of the course. They help in every assignment, and they even help you if you call or message them. Their teaching quality is also very good. You will have some extra subjects also like some extra languages, some sports classes, music classes, dance, yoga, personality development classes, etc. So, you can learn about your interests also. The main course of the subject is also well designed.

Other: I chose this course because I am very much interested in jewellery and furniture design, and I am learning that in this course. Here I got a 100% scholarship also and got help to buy a laptop. We also have guest lectures where we are learning the situation of the market and different brands.

Reviewed on 27 Mar 2021Read More

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What is the schedule of studio test and personal interviews for BDes course at NIFT Hyderabad?

Answered 2 months ago

Studio Test, the NIFT B.Des programme taken at all the campuses including Hyderabad took place on June 8, 2025. It is a mandatory (off-line and practial), practial part of test conducted by B.Des candidates. Students of B.Des don't have own personal Interview. After the completion of the test and f

Arpit Sharma

Contributor-Level 9

How much is the fee for Designing course at National Institute of Fashion Technology, Hyderabad?

Answered 2 months ago

Coming up to the few structure for B.Des (Design) while including fashion design, knitwear, accessory design, fashion communication and textile design at NIFT Hyderabad for the full 4.year course duration is approximately ranges from ?12.3 Lacs to 12.8 lakhs. With additional one time admission charg

Amaan

Beginner-Level 5

How much did the cut-off increase/decrease for BFTech in Apparel Production at NIFT Hyderabad in 2025?

Answered 6 months ago

Currently, NIFT Hyderabad has not released the cutoff for the BFTech in Apparel Production course 2025 on the basis of NIFTEE ranks/scores. However, to get an idea about the competitiveness of the cutoff in the previous years, candidates can check the below table:

Course	2022	2023	2024
BFTech in Apparel Production	323	570	530

In conclusion, the table shows that

Indrani Tyagi

Contributor-Level 10

Which is the best entrance exam for MFM at NIFT Hyderabad among NIFT Entrance Exam and UCEED?

Answered 6 months ago

NIFT Hyderabad only accepts the scores of the NIFT entrance exam for admissions to the MFM course. The institute does not accept the score of UCEED for admission to MFM courses. However, UCEED is widely accepted into several institutions, which offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Designi

Indrani Kumar

Contributor-Level 10

In which month does NIFT Hyderabad usually take admission for BFTech?

Answered 6 months ago

NIFT Hyderabad BFTech admission is based on the NIFT entrance exam, and the admission cycle also commences with the release of the notification of the NIFT entrance exam. As per the information available on the official website of the institute, the application window is expected to open in November

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