UCEED 2026: Last date for Registration with Regular Fee (Oct 31), Exam Date (OUT), Syllabus, Preparation
Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design 2026 ( UCEED )
Registration - 1 Oct '25 - 31 Oct '25
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
- What is UCEED?
- UCEED 2026 Highlights
- UCEED 2026 Admission Process
- UCEED 2026 Important Dates
- UCEED 2026 Eligibility Criteria
- UCEED Application 2026
- UCEED 2026 Syllabus and Question Paper Pattern
- UCEED 2026 Exams
- UCEED 2026 Admit Card
- UCEED 2026 Exam Centres
- UCEED 2026 Result/Score
- UCEED 2026 Seat Allotment and Counselling
- UCEED 2026 Fee Structure
- UCEED 2026 Participating Colleges
- UCEED 2026 Result Sharing Institutes
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.
Latest update:
UCEED application is open now at uceedapp.iitb.ac.in. The last date to fill out the application form with the regular fees is October 31, 2025. After this late fees of INR 500 will be applicable. UCEED Entrance Exam 2026 will be conducted on January 18, 2026 (Sunday) from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
UCEED 2026 Highlights
The highlights of the UCEED 2026 Exams are as follows:
| Features |
Details |
|---|---|
| Exam name |
Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) |
| Conducting institute |
IIT Bombay |
| Exam Level |
National |
| Exam frequency |
Once a year |
| Exam mode |
The UCEED question paper has two parts:
|
| Exam duration |
3 hours |
| No. of test cities |
27 |
| No. of test takers |
12,084 (UCEED 2020), 13,549 (UCEED 2023) |
| Exam website |
ucceed.iitb.ac.in |
UCEED 2026 Admission Process
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The step-wise UCEED 2026 admission process is as follows:
1. Fill the UCEED Application Form.
2. Download the UCEED Admit Card.
3. Appear for the UCEED Entrance Exam.
4. Check UCEED Result and Rank. Download the Scorecard.
Yes, the candidate may have to pay the service charges, processing fees and/or any other charges that the banks may charge when filling out the UCEED 2026 application form. Note that this in addition to the application fee.
Also, if the candidate doesn't complete the application process by October 2025, they will have to pay a late fee of INR to apply between November 1 and 7, 2025.
The application form for UCEED 2026 is available online at UCEED.iitb.ac.in. The application form is open from October 01, 2025 to October 31, 2025. You can apply with regular and late fees.
To fill out the UCEED application form, the candidate will have to go to the portal and click on the registration button. IIT Bombay will also release the admission notification and launch the admission portal for the exam.
The UCEED 2026 application form is for admission to the B. Des program offered by participating colleges.
5. Appear for the UCEED Seat Allotment Rounds/ Counselling.
6. Wait for the Provisional Offer Letter and pay the fees after getting the Provisional Offer Letter.
UCEED 2026 Important Dates
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The following table shows the important dates for UCEED 2026:
| Event | UCEED 2025 Date & Time | UCEED 2026 Date |
|---|---|---|
| Start date for Online Registration | October 01, 2024, 01:00 PM | October 01, 2025 |
| Last date for Online Registration with regular fee | October 31, 2024 | October 31, 2025 |
| Last date for Online Registration with late fee | November 08, 2024, 05:00 PM | November 7, 2025 |
| Final late registration deadline | November 18, 2024, 05:00 PM | November 7, 2025 |
| Start date for Admit Card downloading | January 03, 2025, 01:00 PM | January 02, 2026 |
| Last date for rectification of discrepancies in Admit Card | January 09, 2025, 05:00 PM | January 08, 2026 |
| UCEED 2025 Exam Date & Time | January 19, 2025 (Sunday), 09:00 AM to 12:00 Noon | January 18, 2026 (Sunday), 09:00 AM to 12:00 Noon (OUT) |
| Release of Draft Answer Key and candidates’ response for Part-A | January 21, 2025 | January 20, 2026 |
| Last date to submit comments on Draft Answer Key | January 23, 2025, 05:00 PM | January 22, 2026 |
| Release of Final Answer Key for Part-A | January 29, 2025, 05:00 PM | January 28, 2026 |
| Announcement of cut-off marks for Part-A | February 06, 2025 | First week of January 2026 |
| Declaration of Results | March 07, 2025 | March 06, 2026 |
| Start date for Score Card downloading | March 10, 2025 | March 10, 2026 |
| Application Process for BDes Programme starts | As per Admission Schedule | As per Admission Schedule |
| Last date for Score Card downloading | June 11, 2025 | July 31, 2026 |
UCEED 2026 Eligibility Criteria
All the candidates who wish to appear for the UCEED 2026 Entrance Examination must fulfill the following three Criteria:
Criteria 1 – Age limit:
The candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 2001, if belonging to the OPEN/EWS/OBC-NCL category, and born on or after October 1, 1996, if belonging to the SC, ST, or PwD category.
Criteria 2 – Number of attempts:
The maximum attempts a candidate can have is two times in two consecutive years. The UCEED score is valid for one year and only for admissions in the same corresponding academic year.
Criteria 3 – Qualifying examination:
A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2025 or 2026 to be eligible for attempting UCEED 2026. Students from all the streams (Science, Commerce, and Arts & Humanities) are eligible. Those who appeared for the first time in their qualifying examination (Class XII) in 2024 or earlier are NOT eligible to appear in UCEED 2026.
UCEED Application 2026
The UCEED 2026 application form has to be filled online following the link that is given on this page.
The step-wise process to fill out the UCEED application form is given below:
- Go to the UCEED 2026 admission portal
- Click on the application tab A registration form will open
- Fill in your name, email id, and mobile number to get registered
- After candidate account is created, log in to fill the rest of the application form
- Enter academic, personal, and contact details
- Upload all the prescribed documents
- Pay UCEED application fee
- Download and print the UCEED online form.
The UCEED 2025 seat-acceptance fee for GEN/EWS/OBC-NCL candidate is INR 60,000. However, note that SC, ST, and PwD candidates only need to pay INR 15,000. The fee wiill have to paid within the schedule notified by IIT Bombay. If the candidate fails to make the payment within the given deadline, then the allotment will be cancelled. Also, the seat vacated in such cases will be allocated to the candidate next in the order of merit.
The UCEED 2025 counseling will have five seat allotment rounds. Note that the seat-acceptance fee will have to be paid as per the seat allotment round.
UCEED provides an opportunity for the candidates to fill out the entrance form after the deadline, after paying the late fees. The last date to fill out applications with late fees is the first week of November. The UCEED B.Des Application fee is 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 2026 Syllabus and Question Paper Pattern
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 2026 Exams
UCEED Exams will be 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 2026 Question Paper Format: Part A
The following table shows the types of questions, number of questions, marking scheme and total marks for UCEED Part A:
| Section | Type of Questions | Number of Questions | Marks for Correct Answer | Marks for Wrong Answer | Marks for Not Attempted | Total Marks for the Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Numerical Answer Type (NAT) | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 56 |
| 2 | Multiple Select Question (MSQ) | 15 | Partial Marking | -1 | 0 | 60 |
| 3 | Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) | 28 | 3 | -0.71 | 0 | 84 |
| Total | 57 | 200 |
UCEED 2026 Question Paper Format : Part B
The following table shows the types of questions, number of questions, and total marks for UCEED Part B:
| Type of Question | Number of Questions | Total Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Sketching | 1 | 50 |
| Design Aptitude | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 2 | 100 |
UCEED 2026 Admit Card
UCEED Admit card is usually released on January 02, 2026 for all the candidates who have successfully completed the registration. The Admit Card will be 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 2026 Exam Centres
UCEED has test centres in almost all parts of the country. Students have to select three cities at the time of filling out the application form. No request to change the city will be accepted once the registration is complete. Candidates will have to make their own arrangements in the city allotted to them for the examination. The city will be allotted to the candidates on the basis of the city preference filled by them.
UCEED 2026 Entrance exam will be tentatively conducted in the following UCEED Test Centres:
| UCEED 2025 Exam Cities |
||
|---|---|---|
| Ahmedabad |
Bengaluru |
Bhopal |
| Bhubaneswar |
Chandigarh/ Mohali |
Chennai |
| Dehradun |
Delhi |
Ernakulum |
| Panaji |
Guwahati |
Hyderabad |
| Jaipur |
Lucknow |
Kolkata |
| Kozhikode |
Mumbai |
Nagpur |
| Patna |
Pune |
Raipur |
| Thiruvananthapuram |
Thrissur |
Visakhapatnam |
| Coimbatore |
Ernakulam |
Mysuru |
UCEED 2026 Result/Score
UCEED Results 2026 will be tentatively 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.
Also read:
| UCEED Question Paper | UCEED Mock Test | UCEED Preparations |
UCEED 2026 Seat Allotment and Counselling
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 2026 Seat Matrix
The following table shows the Seat Allotment for different categories for the year 2025-26:
| Institute | Open | Open-PwD | EWS | EWS-PwD | OBC-NCL | OBC-NCL-PwD | SC | SC-PwD | ST | ST-PwD | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IIT Bombay | 14 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 37 |
| IIT Delhi | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 |
| IIT Guwahati | 22 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 56 |
| IIT Hyderabad | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 30 |
| IIT Roorkee | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 |
| IIITDM Jabalpur | 25 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 66 |
| IIT Indore | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 |
| Total | 94 | 5 | 25 | 2 | 63 | 1 | 34 | 3 | 16 | 2 | 245 |
UCEED 2026 Fee Structure
The UCEED Fee for the B.Des programme will depend on the various participating and result-sharing institutes. Candidates need to check the fee structure of the respective institute.
UCEED 2026 Participating Colleges
There are seven participating institutes of UCEED 2025. IIT Roorkee was newly added in the previous edition of the exam. The participating institutes offer B.Des courses and have an intake of 245 seats. Admission to the course will be strictly based on UCEED 2026 merit ranks.
The List of UCEED Participating Institutions is as follows:
| Sr No. |
Institute |
Design Department |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
IIT Bombay |
IDC School of Design |
| 2 |
Department of Design |
|
| 3 |
IIT Guwahati |
Department of Design |
| 4 |
Department of Design |
|
| 5 |
IIT Roorkee |
Department of Design |
| 6 |
Design Discipline |
|
| 7 |
IIT Indore |
School of Innovation |
UCEED 2026 Result Sharing Institutes
The following are the result-sharing Institutes for UCEED 2026:
| Sr. No. |
Institute Name |
Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
FLAME University |
Pune |
| 2 |
MODY University of Science and Technology |
Rajasthan |
| 3 |
Ahmedabad |
|
| 4 |
Alliance University |
Bengaluru |
| 5 |
CEPT University |
Ahmedabad |
| 6 |
MIT ID Indore – Avantika University |
Indore |
| 7 |
Navrachana University |
Gujarat |
| 8 |
GLS University |
Gujarat |
| 9 |
Department of Design, Shiv Nadar IoE |
Delhi NCR |
| 10 |
Delhi |
|
| 11 |
Jain (Deemed-to-be-University) |
Bangalore |
| 12 |
World University of Design |
Sonipat |
| 13 |
ITM Skills University |
Navi Mumbai |
| 14 |
CMR University |
Bengaluru |
| 15 |
JK Lakshmipat University |
Jaipur |
| 16 |
Somaiya School of Design, Somaiya Vidyavihar University |
Mumbai |
| 17 |
RV University |
Bengaluru |
| 18 |
Lovely Professional University |
Phagwara |
| 19 |
Department of Design, Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT) |
New Delhi |
| 20 |
Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University |
Pune |
| 21 |
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University |
Katra |
| 22 |
Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology |
Bengaluru |
| 23 |
Mumbai |
|
| 24 |
D Y Patil University School of Design |
Pune |
| 25 |
VIT School of Design (V-SIGN), VIT |
Vellore |
| 26 |
Various places |
|
| 27 |
Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies |
— |
| 28 |
Dr. D Y Patil School of Design |
Pune |
| 29 |
Tezpur University |
Assam |
| 30 |
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) |
Manipal |
| 31 |
School of Creativity, Rishihood University |
Delhi NCR |
| 32 |
Dehradun |
|
| 33 |
O.P. Jindal Global University |
Sonipat |
| 34 |
Delhi Technological University |
Delhi |
| 35 |
Anant National University |
Ahmedabad |
| 36 |
U. P. Institute of Design |
Noida |
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Student Forum
Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered 2 months ago
No, UCEED 2025 entrance exam has been concluded at this point of time. Saintgits Design School BDes course admissions also accept different entrance exam scores as well including the SDAT entrance exam conducted by Saintgits Design School itself. Candidates can find all the accepted entrance exams f
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 months ago
For students belonging to the SC category under the AI quota, the UCEED last round closing rank was 31 for IIT Indore B.Des admission. Please note that the cutoff ranks vary for different rounds. The round-wise UCEED 2025 closing ranks for IIT Indore are tabulated below for the SC category.
| Round | UCEED Cutoff 2025 (Closing Rank) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
| 2 | 24 |
| 3 | 24 |
| 4 | 24 |
| 5 | 31 |
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 months ago
Yes, the IIT Indore cutoff 2025 varies across different rounds and categories. For the last round, IIT Indore cutoff UCEED 2025 was 119 for BDes admission for the General AI quota. On the other hand, for the OBC category candidates, the cutoff rank was 61 for the last round. Refer to the table belo
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 months ago
The official notification of UCEED 2026 will be released by October 01, 2025, by IIT Bombay on the official website. The exam dates are out and will be conducted on January 18, 2026.
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 months ago
UCEED consists of two parts:
Part A (Computer-based): Objective questions (NAT, MSQ, MCQ)
Part B (Pen-and-paper): Drawing and design aptitude questions
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 months ago
IIT Bombay will conduct the UCEED 2026 Entrance Exam for B.Des programmes on January 18, 2026. The notification will be out in the first week of October 2025.
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Contributor-Level 10
UCEED 2026 Application is expected to open by October 01, 2025, on the official website. The last date to apply with regular fees will be in the second week of November 2025. Candidates who met the prescribed eligibility criteria were able to apply for admission.