Salary After NID: Highest and Lowest Salary, Placement Cell and Recruiters

NID is known for its placements and recruiters. It has a Placement cell dedicated to bringing jobs for its graduates and post-graduates. Read on to know more about it.

Salary After NID: Highest and Lowest Salary

The National Institute of Design are one of the best design institutes in the country. NIDs are highly regarded because they have some of the best placement records.  These NIDs offer high-quality education and high-paying jobs. Here, we discuss the NID placement cell, recruiters, how the placement process is conducted, average salary, and much more.

NID DAT 2026 registration is open for B.Des and M.Des programmes. The application form is available on the official website. The last date to fill out the application form of NID DAT is December 01, 2025. The NID DAT 2026 Entrance Exam will be conducted on December 21, 2025 for UG and PG programmes.

Role of NID Placement Office

1. To provide opportunities for students’ project-based learning, such as graduation projects, industrial training, classroom projects, live projects, and workshops.

2. To organise Industry Interface biannually. This event also creates awareness among the industries/firms/studios NGOs./Govt. Sector/ MSMEs about NID and its various modes of operations.

3. To host more than 200 companies during the Industry Interface.

4. To encourage start-up culture by guiding the students to be involved in incubator/start-up projects.

5. To manage the Students’ Online portfolios for the graduating batch and graduation project semester students and guide students to build their portfolios.

6. To coordinate industry visits and meetings with concerned HODs/coordinators and promote Industry presence in NID through lectures/presentations and interactions/crosstalks for the students throughout the year.

7.  To facilitate the queries of both students and industry.

8. To facilitate lateral placements.

9. To coordinate the announcement of competitions.

10. To make scholarships/events /workshop-related announcements received by sponsors.

NID 2026 Placement Cell

NID has a separate Placement cell for its students and recruiters. Recruiters can register themselves to recruit the students.

1. Company Registration

2. Payment of the fee

3. Login and upload JD

4. View applicants

5. Shortlist candidates

6. Online Interview 

7. Submit the final selected students

8. Interim offer to students

NID Placements

NID Major Recruiters

The list of top recruiters/ companies who are participating in the NID Bengaluru placements is given below. The NID faculties train and prepare students for interviews and group discussions.

Some other major recruiters at NID are

• Adidas Group India
• Adobe
• Adobe Systems India Private Ltd
• Amazon Development Center (I) Private Ltd.
• Arttdinox – Jindal
• Ashok Leyland
• Astron Clothing
• Axis Bank Ltd - Neft
• Bharat Silks
• Info Edge (India) Ltd.
• Infosys Technologies Ltd.
• J.P.Morgan
• Jaanch Ur Style
• Label Sailesh Singhania
• Lajjo C Clothing
• Lava International
• Lg Electronics India Pvt. Ltd.
• Lnj Bhilwara Group
• Madura Fashion And Lifestyle
• Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Automotive Sector)

Highest and Lowest Salary Offered at NID

The salary expectation of an NID graduate is always high. However, this may vary from company to company. Check the given table to get an idea of the salary that may be offered in NID placement.

Summary of Industry Interface (Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, and Bengaluru campuses) for 2023–2024 is

Check out the salary offered at NID.

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