How Many Students Appeared for CEED Exam 2026?

Common Entrance Examination for Design 2027 ( CEED )

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CEED 2027 Application DATE with Regular Fee

1 Oct '26 - 5 Nov '26

CEED Entrance exam is over. Candidates from all over the country apply for CEED Entrance exam to get admission to IITs for M.Des and PhD programmes. IITs offer around 302 seats in the participating institutes. There are also many result sharing institutes. Every year, around 6000+ applicants fill the CEED entrance exam.

IIT Bombay is expected to release the number of students who applied and appeared for the CEED 2026 Exam. The number of students who registered/appeared for CEED will be released soon. Candidates can check how many students appear for CEED year-wise here.

UCEED 2026 Statistics

CEED 2026 Statistics

The Indian Institute of Technology is expected to release data on how many students registered for M.Des programme. CEED 2026 Entrance Exam is a national-level entrance test conducted by IIT Bombay for admission to Undergraduate (UG) programs offered by participating IITs. It is one of the biggest Design entrance examinations, which records nearly 6 thousand registrations. CEED Entrance Exam was conducted on January 18, 2026, from 9 AM to 12 PM. The exam was conducted in two parts Part A and Part B. Part A will be computer-based and Part B will be pen-and-paper-based.

Table of contents
  • How Many Students will appear for CEED 2026?
  • Previous Year Data: CEED 2025 Statistics
  • CEED 2023 Statistics
  • Seat Intake of CEED 2026

How Many Students will appear for CEED 2026?

The number of applicants expected in CEED 2026 is 6000+ this year. The seats are expected to be around 300.

Year Exam No. of Applications Seats Course & Institute
2024 CEED 4910 300 B.Des at IIT Bombay, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee, IIITDM Jabalpur, IIT Indore (B.Des) and IIT Delhi (B.Des Industrial Design)
2025 CEED 6037 300 B.Des at IIT Bombay, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee, IIITDM Jabalpur, IIT Indore (B.Des) and IIT Delhi (B.Des Industrial Design)

Previous Year Data: CEED 2025 Statistics

In CEED 2025, the total number of applications received by IIT Bombay was 15408. Out of this, 5703 qualified for the exam.

Category PwD Registered Appeared Qualified
Open No 3094 2609 919
Yes 19 18 11
OBC-NCL No 1112 1000 376
Yes 2 2 2
EWS No 141 125 33
Yes 0 0 0
SC No 566 483 401
Yes 2 1 1
ST No 153 132 104
Yes 1 1 1
Total 3471 1848

CEED 2023 Statistics

For CEED 2023, 4910 candidates appeared for the entrance test. Out of this, 1886 qualified for the further admission process.

Gender Registered Appeared Qualified
Male 5691 4970 2290
Female 9797 8578 2546
Transgender 3 1 0
Total 6037 4910 1886
Category Registered Appeared Qualified
PwD 53 49 31
Foreign 46 44 30

Seat Intake of CEED 2026

Check out the expected seat intake of IIT CEED 2026.

S.No

Participating Institute

Department

M.Des Seat Intake (expected)

1

IISc Bangalore

Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing

18

2

IIT Bombay

IDC School of Design (Industrial Design Centre)

78

3

IIT Delhi

Department of Design

20

4

IIT Guwahati

Department of Design

33

5

IIT Hyderabad

Department of Design

30

6

IIT Kanpur

Design Programme

78

7

IIT Roorkee

Department of Design

20

8

IIT Jodhpur

School of Liberal Arts

25

9

IIITDM Jabalpur

Design Discipline

-

10

IIITDM Kancheepuram

School of Interdisciplinary Design & Innovation

-

Total

302

Reservation Policy:

  • PwD (Persons with Disabilities) reservation is 5% horizontal and is carved out from the respective birth category.

  • Any unfilled PwD seats will revert to the original category.

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