B.Des. in Fashion Communication 

at NIFT Patna, Patna

NIFT Patna BDes admission process is conducted between November and June. For BDes admissions 2025, the registration process started on Nov 22, 2024. The last date to register online was Jan 6, 2025. Candidates who missed the deadline could apply with an additional late fee of INR 5,000 till Jan 9, 2025.

To be eligible for BDes at NIFT Patna, the candidates must have passed class 12 or equivalent from a recognised board and his/her age should be less than 24 years. 

The NIFT BDes admission criteria is completely based on the NIFT entrance exam. Aspirants with a rank of 3100 or below have a chance of securing a seat at NIFT Patna BDes. 

Note: The cutoff rank mentioned above is an approximate value. Check out the NIFT Patna 2024 cutoff here. 

The NIFT BDes application fee depends on the reservation category of applicants. The fee has to be paid through online payment gateway on the NIFT admission portal. Check out the following table for the category-wise application fee:

*The mentioned fee is sourced from the official website/sanctioning body. It is still subject to changes and hence, is indicative.

B Des placements at National Institute of fashion technology Patna are good. Majority of the student ie, 90 percent of the students got placed with good pacakges. The highest pacakge offered to BDes students was 22 LPA and 4.5 LPA was the average. Many good companies like Nykaa, H& M, Aditya birla, Amazon were the top recruiters at the placement drive. If we talk about the return on investment, the total fees for any B Des course is 12.34 lacs and average package is 4.5 lpa. Students get a decent return on their money invested in the fees. 

NIFT Patna BDes cut-off varies across the BDes specialisations offered at the institute. The cut-off for most specialisations has shown a fluctuating trend over the past three years. BDes in Fashion Communication turned out to be the most competitive among all specialisations. Candidates can check out the following table presenting the BDes cut-off trend for various specialisations offered at NIFT Patna:

The following table depicts the NIFT Patna placement packages recorded in recent years:

NOTE: The above salary details are gathered from the Shiksha students' reviews.

Admissions at National Institute of Fashion Technology are entrance based. There is an entrance exam conducted by the institute named as NIFT test. The test includes various parts like Creative ability test, general ability test, group discussion etc. The students need to qualify in the entrance exam in order to get admission. Cutoff will be released based on the number of seats and applications. Students need to qualify in the cutoff rank also. The cutoff rank for B Des fashion designing in 2023 was 1692. All the courses will have different cutoff which students can check on the official website. 

No, there is no scope of joining NIFT Patna or any other NIFT Campus without appearing for the NIFT Entrance exam. The NIFT entrance exam is conducted by the NIFT Delhi and it is the common and only gateway for admission to NIFT.

The NIFT registration process is generally conducted in the month of November and the exam is conducted in the month of April.   

The list of prominent companies that were part of NIFT Patna placements over the past few years is presented below:

There are no placement details available on the official website. As per unofficial sources, the placement rate recorded in recent drives was between 70% and 80%. Furthermore, the highest package grabbed was INR 22 LPA. Check the complete insights of NIFT Patna placements from the table below:

NOTE: The above placement statistics are gathered from the Shiksha students' reviews.