UCEED 2026 Exam: Result (DECLARED), Score Card (March 10), IIT Bombay Expected Cut-offs & Latest Updates

Are you dreaming of a career in design at India's topmost institute? UCEED 2026 Entrance Exam will take you there. The UCEED Entrance Exam is a national-level examination, organised every year by IIT Bombay for Bachelor of Design (BDes) programmes. Read in detail to know about the Applications, Admission process, Dates, etc.

UCEED 2026

IIT Bombay released the UCEED cut-off for Part A on February 05, 2026. It is released on uceed.iitb.ac.in. Cut off for UCEED Part A is available in the form of Mean and Standard Deviation. The mean and standard deviation for Part-A (UCEED 2026) are 70.86 and 25.77. It will be released for all the students who have appeared for the UCEED Entrance Exam.

After the announcement of Cut off, IIT Bombay declared the UCEED result on March 06, 2026. After the result, UCEED Scorecards will be made available from March 10, 2026 till July 31, 2026.

UCEED Exam was conducted on January 18, 2026, by IIT Bombay. The exam time was from 9 AM to 12 PM on Sunday. UCEED reporting time for the exam was 7 AM. There was biometric attendance at the UCEED test centres. All candidates must carry a printout of their UCEED Hall ticket with a Photo ID proof to the centre. Entry to the examination centre after the start of IIT UCEED Entrance Exam (9:00 AM) was not allowed.

Latest Updates:

• UCEED 2026 Result (Today) Live Updates: Direct Link, UCEED Score Card @uceed.iitb.ac.in, Expected Cutoff

• UCEED 2026 Expected Cutoff (Category-Wise) & Qualifying Marks; Check Here

What is UCEED?

UCEED stands for Undergraduate Common Entrance Exam for Design. It is one of the top-notch exams conducted for admission in B.Des Programmes in IITs. UCEED 2026 will be conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay under the guidance of the UCEED-CEED Implementation Committee 2026 (UCI Committee). The admissions to the B.Des programme at IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee, and IIITDM Jabalpur are done through the UCEED entrance Examination. There are many result-sharing institutes that accept the UCEED scores for B.Des Admissions. 

The highlights of the UCEED 2026 Exams are as follows:

UCEED Result/Score 2026

UCEED Results 2026 are released on March 06, 2026, on the official website (www.uceed.iitb.ac.in). Candidates must use their user login and password (created during registration) to check their results. No hard copies of the UCEED 2026 Scorecard will be sent to the candidates. 

The responses of the candidates for Part-A of UCEED 2026 will be available for download ONLY until the declaration of the UCEED result. Candidates will not be able to download the Part-A responses once the UCEED results are declared. The responses will be disabled, and no requests will be entertained.

All the candidates who have qualified in the UCEED 2026 Entrance Examination will be shortlisted and will be given a common merit rank (All India Rank). The Ranks will be assigned by considering the total marks of Part A and Part B in UCEED 2026.

If the total marks scored by two or more candidates are the same, then the tie-break policy will be used for awarding ranks.

UCEED Seat Allotment and Counselling 2026

UCEED will tentatively have Five Rounds of Seat Allotment. The schedule will be shared after the declaration of the UCEED 2026 Results. The seats will be allotted based on the applicant’s All India Rank (AIR) in UCEED 2026, category and choice of institutes. The candidates who will be selected for the allotment will be given a Provisional Allotment Letter via their registered Email. Candidates need to confirm their seats by paying the Seat Acceptance Fee of ₹60,000 (Rupees Sixty Thousand only) for GEN/EWS/OBC-NCL and ₹ 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand only) for SC/ST/PwD.

UCEED Seat Matrix 2026

The following table shows the Seat Allotment for different categories for the year 2025-26:

UCEED Fee Structure 2026

The UCEED Fee for the B.Des programme will depend on the various participating and UCEED result-sharing institutes. Candidates need to check the fee structure of the respective institute. 

UCEED Participating Colleges 2026

UCEED Hall Ticket 2026

UCEED Admit card was released on January 02, 2026 for all the candidates who have successfully completed the registration. The UCEED Hall ticket is available on the official website. Candidates can log in using their credentials. Admit Card UCEED will have information like Name,  UCEED Registration ID, Roll Number for UCEED 2025, Date of Birth, Category, photograph, signature, examination schedule, examination centre details, and instructions to candidates.

UCEED also provides an opportunity to the candidates to rectify any discrepancies that might have occurred in the Admit Card. Candidates must do so within the time alloted.

UCEED Exam Centres 2026

UCEED had test centres in almost all parts of the country. Students had to select three cities at the time of filling out the application form. No request to change the city were accepted once the registration is complete. Candidates had to make their own arrangements in the city allotted to them for the examination. The city was allotted to the candidates on the basis of the city preference filled by them.

UCEED 2026 Entrance exam was conducted in the following UCEED Test Centres:

UCEED Entrance Exam Answer Key 2026

UCEED will release answer key for the IIT UCEED Exam. Draft Answer Key and candidates’ response for Part-A was out on January 19, 2026. The last date for uploading comments (if any) on the Draft Answer Key in the candidate’s portal was January 22, 2026, 05:00 pm. UCEED will release the final answer key on January 28, 2026 for Part A.

UCEED Registration 2026

UCEED Registration closed with late fee November 10, 2025. UCEED Application is closed with regular fee. The last date for UCEED Application 2026 with regular fees was extended from October 31, 2025 to November 05, 2025. UCEED B.Des Application fee was INR. 4,000 for all the applicants (all categories and genders). Application fee for female and reserved candidates is INR 2,000. The fee will be non-refundable and non-transferable.

UCEED Syllabus and Question Paper Pattern 2026

UCEED Entrance Exam is conducted by IIT Bombay. The exam is conducted in two parts: Part A and Part B.

UCEED Part- A will have questions from the following topics:

• Visualization and spatial reasoning: This will check the candidate’s ability to visualise and transform 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships.
• Practical and scientific knowledge: This topic is know-how of scientific principles and everyday objects.
• Observation and design sensitivity:This topic will check the capacity to detect concealed properties in daily life and think critically about them. Attention to detail, classification, analysis, inference and prediction.
• Environment and society: How much a candidate is good with General awareness of environmental, social, and cultural connections with design.
• Analytical and logical reasoning: Candidate’s ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative information.
• Language: How proficient is the candidate in reading and comprehending Standard English?
• Creativity: How well-versed is the candidate in grasping verbal and non-verbal analogies, metaphors, signs, and symbols?

UCEED Part B will have questions on the following topics:

• Drawing: Will check candidate’s ability to draw products, people or scenes in proportion with good line quality, composition, proportion, perspective, and shading.
• Design aptitude: Will analyze candidate’s capability to practically and appropriately respond to problems/situations with ingenuity and empathy.

UCEED Exams 2026

UCEED Exams was conducted on January 18, 2026. The Entrance Exam of UCEED is conducted in two parts. 

• There will be one question paper with both parts: A and B. The exam will be of three hours.
• The medium of the exam will be in English.
• The UCEED 2026 exam will be of 300 marks. Candidates will have to attend both parts as both parts are compulsory.

UCEED Question Paper Format 2026: Part A 

The following table shows the types of questions, number of questions, marking scheme and total marks for UCEED Part A:

UCEED Question Paper Format 2026 : Part B

The following table shows the types of questions, number of questions, and total marks for UCEED Part B:

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