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NIFT Hyderabad Ranking 2025

Q: Is B.FTech at NIFT Hyderabad better than Bonfire Institute of Design?

Greetings, NIFT Hyderabad for sure. NIFT is the most premium fashion design institute in India. It has a 100% placement record. The highest salary offered was 20 Lacs p. a. Companies.Bonfire's infrastructure and facilities might not be as well-established as NIFT's, although this can vary across campuses.NIFT is most reputated institute comparing to Bonfire Institute. Thank you.

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NIFT Hyderabad Rankings
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NIFT Hyderabad is widely acknowledged as one of India's top universities. It consistently ranks in various categories, and in the India Today ranking 2025, it received #4 rank in the 'Fashion Design' category, showing its broad academic reach. In the 'Fashion Design' category, NIFT Hyderabad ranked in the top 5 in the country for the 3rd consecutive year in 2025.

NIFT Hyderabad Ranking

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NIFT Hyderabad Ranking Highlights 2025
India Today Ranking 2025
Outlook Ranking 2026
The Week Ranking 2025
NIFT Hyderabad Course Ranking
NIFT Hyderabad Student Reviews

NIFT Hyderabad
NIFT Hyderabad Ranking Highlights 2025

NIFT Hyderabad is one of the most popular institutes of the country. Most of the ranking bodies have recognised this institute as one of the popular choices among students. The institute has been ranked #4 by the India Today 2025 under the category Fashion Design. The institute has been ranked well by eminent ranking bodies because of its curriculum, infrastructure and well-qualified faculty. Students can check the article in this space for more details around the NIFT Hyderabad rankings.

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Fashion Design

The Week, 2025

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Q: What is the difference between a Bachelor in Design and Fashion Technology?

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.

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Q: Which is the best entrance exam for BDes: NIFT Entrance Exam or UCEED?

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.

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Q: Is NIFT Hyderabad ranked?

Yes, over the past few years, the National Institute of Fashion Technology NIFT Hyderabad has been ranked by several ranking bodies, such as The Week & India Today, among many others. Some of the important NIFT Hyderabad rankings are mentioned below:

Ranking Body	Ranks
India Today 2025 under the Fashion Design category	4
The Week 2025 under the Fashion Design category	7
India Today 2024 under the Fashion Design category	4
The Week 2024 under the Fashion Design category	7

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Q: Is B.FTech at NIFT Hyderabad better than Bonfire Institute of Design?

Greetings,

NIFT Hyderabad for sure. NIFT is the most premium fashion design institute in India. It has a 100% placement record. The highest salary offered was 20 Lacs p. a. Companies.Bonfire's infrastructure and facilities might not be as well-established as NIFT's, although this can vary across campuses.NIFT is most reputated institute comparing to Bonfire Institute.

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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 important 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 good 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 a fluctuating trend when evaluated against the ranking of the prior year. In 2025, NIFT Hyderabad's rank is #4, the same as last year's rank in the 'Fashion Design' category by the India Today ranking.

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

As per the India Today 2025, NIFT Hyderabad achieved #4 rank under the 'Fashion Design' category. It stands on par with well-known institutions such as NIFT Chennai and NIFT Patna under the India Today 'Fashion Design' category. Check the year-wise comparison of NIFT Hyderabad with other leading institutes below.

NIFT Hyderabad vs Other Institutes: India Today Ranking 2025
College Name	Fashion Design 2025
NIFT Hyderabad	4
NIFT Bangalore	2
NIFT Mumbai	3
NIFT Chennai	5
NIFT Patna	6

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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 2026

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. It is to be noted that the NIFT Hyderabad's rankings in 'Fashion Design (Government)' category have demonstrated stability in trend as per the rankings of the previous years. In 2025, NIFT Hyderabad's rank is #7, the same as last year's rank in t

Check out the updated rankings and category details from different ranking bodies below.

NIFT Hyderabad Ranking
Outlook Ranking Comparison

NIFT Hyderabad secured #7 rank in the 'Fashion Design (Government)' category of Outlook-ICARE 2025 rankings. Its status is comparable to top institutions such as NIFT Kolkata and NIFT Raebareli. Check out how NIFT Hyderabad compares to other top-ranked universities year by year.

NIFT Hyderabad vs Other Institutes: Outlook-ICARE Ranking 2025
College Name	Fashion Design (Government) 2025
NIFT Hyderabad	7
NIFT Patna	5
NIFT Gandhinagar	6
NIFT Kolkata	8
NIFT Raebareli	9

NIFT Hyderabad
The Week Ranking 2025

NIFT Hyderabad has been recognised for its excellence in various fields by The Week 2025, outperforming other institutes in parameters such as Teaching, Graduation Outcome, Inclusivity & Research, as well as fostering an exceptional learning environment. In the 'Fashion Technology' category, the institute's ranks have displayed constancy when compared with the previous year's ranking. In 2025, NIFT Hyderabad's rank is #7, the same as last year's rank in the 'Fashion Technology' category by T

Check out the latest rankings for other ranking bodies and their categories below.

Category	2024	2025
Fashion Design	7	7

NIFT Hyderabad Ranking
The Week Ranking Comparison

According to The Week ranking 2025, NIFT Hyderabad received #7 rank in the 'Fashion Technology' category. It holds a comparable status to the most prestigious universities such as Pearl Academy Delhi, and NIFT Bhubaneswar for The Week rankings under the 'Fashion Technology' category. Check out the year-by-year comparison of Tezpur University with other top institutes:

NIFT Hyderabad vs Other Institutes: The Week Ranking 2025
College Name	Fashion Technology 2025
NIFT Hyderabad	7
NIFT Mumbai	5
NIFT Kolkata	6
Pearl Academy Delhi	8
NIFT Bhubaneswar	9

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	10

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NIFT Hyderabad
Course Ranking

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Ranked by	2023	2024	2025
India Today	5	4	4
The Week	-	7	7

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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 Textile Design - Batch of 2028

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5Placements4Infrastructure4Faculty5Crowd & Campus Life3Value for Money

Short review of NIFT Hyderabad.

Placements: The average package of the institute is 3 to 6 LPA, and the highest package as of now is 18 LPA. Students also get internships. Companies that come for placements include Raymond, Siyaram, and Aditya Birla. Along with opportunities from alumni and graduate students.

Infrastructure: The hostel is very poor and small. Wi-Fi quality could be better. There is only a girls’ hostel, no boys’ hostel. The hostel food is okay and hygienic, but the toilets are in very poor condition. The course is good and includes many extracurricular activities.

Faculty: Faculty is very cooperative and has excellent knowledge in their respective fields. The textile design faculty members are strict and follow all the rules made by the department. The teaching quality is very good. They make students industry-ready.

Other: I chose this course because I love crafting and designing. The hostel facilities can be improved. Events are held on a high budget.

Reviewed on 28 Nov 2025Read More

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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

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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.

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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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How can I get admission at NIFT Hyderabad?

Answered a month ago

NIFT Hyderabad offers admission to candidates based on their scores in NIFT Entrance Exam. Aspirants need to appear for Creative Ability Test and General Ability Test for BDes and MFM courses. Candidates have to only appear for GAT for admission to BFTech. Selected candidates are called for Situatio

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How much is the application fees at NIFT Hyderabad?

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Candidates need to pay an application fees to apply for a course at NIFT Hyderabad. Check below category-wise application fees:

Category	Application Fees
Open/ OBC-NCL/ Open-EWS	INR 2,000
SC/ ST/ PwD	INR 500

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What is the seat reservation criteria at NIFT Hyderabad?

Answered a month ago

NIFT Hyderabad reserves seats for SC/ ST/ OBC-NCL, Gen-EWS and PwD category candidates. Check below category-wise reservation criteria:

Category	Reservation %
SC	15%
ST	7.5%
OBC (Non-Creamy Layer)	27%
Gen-EWS	10%
Person with Disability (PwD)	5%

Nishtha Shukla

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Does NIFT Hyderabad offer any scholarship to UG students?

Answered a month ago

NIFT Hyderabad offers 'SARTHAK' NIFT Financial Assistance Scheme to UG and PG students. Below is the scholarship offered to UG students under this scholarship:

Category	Annual Household Income	Percentage of Financial Assistant offered under the Scheme
A	Up to INR 2 lakh	100% of tuition fee
B	Above INR 2 Lacs up to INR 4 lakh	75% of tuition fee
C	Above INR 4 Lacs up to INR 6 lakh	50% of tuition fee
D	Above INR 6 Lacs up to INR 8 lakh	25% of tuition fee

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Is there any age limit to apply at NIFT Hyderabad?

Answered a month ago

Candidates applying for UG courses at NIFT Hyderabad have to meet the age criteria. The maximum age should be 24 years as or on August 1 of the admission year. There is a relaxation of 5 years for SC/ ST/ PwD category candidates.

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