UCEED Counselling 2025 (Ongoing): 5th Round Seat Allotment (OUT), Seat Acceptance Fee Window (OPEN)

The counseling for UCEED 2025 will be conducted online as a Joint Seat Allocation process. The counseling will be conducted in a centralized manner.

IIT Bombay will conduct counseling registration from the March 14-31, 2025; all candidates who qualify in the UCEED 2025 exam will be eligible to register for counseling.

The allotment of seats for admission to the B.Des programme offered by participating colleges is based on following parameters:

• UCEED 2025 merit rank of the candidate
• College option selected during registration.

The counseling process for UCEED 2025 will be conducted by IIT Bombay as a Joint Seat Allocation process.

To participate in UCEED 2024 counseling, the candidate must have qualfied in the UCEED 2025 entrance exam and been allocated a merit rank.

This means, if the candidate has failed to qualify Part A exam, he or she will not be allocated a merit rank, and therefore are not eligible to take part in the counseling process.

Note that the seat allotment for the B.Des program is done in five rounds.

The counseling registration window will be open from March 14-31, 2025.

As part of the counseling registration process, the candidate has to select their choice of participating colleges in the order of priority.

Note that UCEED 2025 counseling is conducted as a Joint Seat Allotment Process. There will be a total of FIVE seat allotment rounds, with the allotment of seats to be done as per the merit rank of the candidate. 

As part of the eligibility criteria to participate in UCEED 2025 counseling, the candidate must have been assigned a merit rank in UCEED 2025. 

The 1st step of UCEED 2025 counseling is online registration.

The counseling registration process for UCEED 2025 will be conducted starting the 2nd week of March 2025. Candidates who have qualified in the entrance exam and have been assigned a merit rank in UCEED 2024 were eligible to participate in the counseling process. 

The 2nd step is selection of campuses.

Eligible candidates had to register for counseling and select their choice of colleges in the order of priority at the time of registration.

In the 3rd step, seat allotment is made.

The allotment of seats is as per the merit rank of the candidate in UCEED 2025 and choices selected. Post the allotment of seats, the candidate have to pay the sea-acceptance fee and confirm their admission.

The following five institutes are taking part in UCEED 2025 counselling process, known as the Joint Admission Process, conducted by IIT Bombay:

• IIT Bombay

• IIT Guwahati

• IIT Hyderabad

• IIT Delhi

• IIITDM Jabalpur.

The participating institutes will not consider scores of other entrance exams for the admission process. This means, to be eligible for admission to the B.Des offered by the participating colleges, the candidates need to have secured a merit rank in UCEED 2025. The allotment of seats to the B.Des programme will be based on the merit rank of the candidate in the UCEED 2025 exam and choices selected at the time of counseling registration.

The counseling process for UCEED 2025 will be conducted as a Joint Seat Allotment process. To participate in the counseling, the candidate must have qualified UCEED 2025 and assigned a merit rank in the UCEED 2024 exam. If the candidate doesn’t have a merit rank, he or she is not eligible to participate the counseling-cum-seat allotment process.

The Joint Seat Allotment process for UCEED 2025 will be conducted in an online mode. A total of five institutes will participate in the counseling process. Seat allotment during counseling will be as per the merit rank of the candidate in UCEED 2025 and choices selected at the time of counseling registration.

Also, the seat allotemt will be conducted in five rounds.

The counseling for UCEED 2025 will be held as a Joint Seat Allotment process by IIT Bombay.

The Joint Admission Process will have five seat allotment rounds.  

The seat allotment for Round I will be declared around the 2nd week of April 2025.

Candidates who are allotted seats have to pay the seat acceptance fees to confirm their seats. There is no option to withdraw seats in the last round.

All the five participating institutes of UCEED 2025 are participating in the counseling process.

IIT Bombay may conduct any complementary seat allotment round for UCEED counseling only if there are vacant seats left after the five regular seat allotment rounds. Note that, IIT Bombay will conduct FIVE seat allotment rounds. The seat allotment will be based on the merit rank of the candidate in UCEED 2025 and campus selected at the time of counseling registration. Candidates who qualify in UCEED 2025 exam can participate in counseling.

The counseling for UCEED 2025 will be held as a Joint Seat Allotment process. The participating institutes of UCEED 2025 can participate in counseling.

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.

The Joint Admission Process of UCEED 2025 will have five regular seat allotment rounds.

Also, any updates on SPOT round may only be notified by IIT Bombay at the end of the 5th round of seat allotment. Note that the SPOT round will be held only if there are vacant seats left after the complexion of the five regular rounds.

The allotment of seats during SPOT round will be allocated as per the merit rank of the candidate. However, the allotment will also be made on a first-come, first-served basis. 

To participate in UCEED 2025 counseling, the candidate has to meet the following conditions:

• Age limit - The candidate must be born on or after October 1, 2000

• UCEED 2025 qualification - The candidate must have qualifed in the UCEED 2025 exam.

• Qualifying exam - The candidate must have passed all five subjects in 10+ 2 or an equivalent exam in 2024 or 2025. Candidates appearing in the qualifying exam for the first time in 2023 or earlier are NOT eligible.

The registration fee for UCEED counselling 2025 is INR 4,000. The fees has to be paid in online mode using payment modes like net banking, credit cards, and debit cards. Note that if the candidate has been allotted a seat during UCEED counseling 2025, the candidate will also have to pay the seat-acceptance fee, which is separte from the counseling fee. If the candidate fails to pay the seat-acceptance fee, then the allotment will be cancelled and allotted to the candidate next in the order of merit. The seat allotment process for UCEED 2025 will be held in three rounds. The seat allotment for Round I will be announced on April 10, 2025.

It is mandatory for candidates to get shortlisted to be included in the merit rank. Note that only such candidates who qualify Part A will get shortlisted.

IIT Bombay will release the cut-off marks for Part A around the 2nd week of February 2025. All candidates who meet the cut-off criteria will get shortlisted.

Further, only shortlisted candidates will be eligible to participate in the UCEED 2025 couneling process.

IIT Bombay will declare the results for UCEED 2025 exam on March 7, 2025. The result will be available online at the UCEED 2025 - IIT Bombay admission portal - uceed.iitb.ac.in.

To check your results, log into the result portal using your email ID and password. 

Note that candidates who are assigned a merit rank in UCEED 2025 are eligible to participate in Joint Seat Allotment-cum- counselling process conducted by IIT Bombay. Online registrations for UCEED 2025 counselling 2025 will be open March 14-31, 2025.

The candidate needs the following documents to participate in UCEED 2025 counseling.

• Signed copy of the first page of the completed application form

• UCEED 2025 scorecard

• Qualifying exam (Class 12 or equivalent) mark sheet

• Photo

• Signature

• OBC-NCL/ SC/ ST/ PwD certificate (if applicable)

• OCI/ PIO card (if applicable)

The candidate needs to ensure that they follows the prescribed spefications when uploading the documents. If the prescribed specification is not followed, either the candidate may face difficulty in uploding the documents or there is a chance the documents may be rejected and the candidate may be disqualified. Only such candidates who successfully complete the document verification process will be considered for admission to the B.Des program.

The exam analysis for the UCEED 2025 exam will be made available on this page within a few minutes of the conclusion of the entrance exam. The exam analysis will include the following elements: section-wise and overall difficulty level, types of questions, topic-wise weightage, and expected cut-off. It will also notify candidates if any technical glitches were observed during the exam.

The candidate can go through the detailed analysis and compare their performance and thus access their chances of admission. Note that analysis done by leading coaching institutes will also be updated here.

IIT Bombay conducted the UCEED 2025 exam on January 19, 2025 (9 am – 12 noon). The exam had two mandatory parts: the computer-based Part A and the offline Part B. The UCEED 2025 admission portal was uceed.iitb.ac.in, which hosted all key updates including the information brochure, eligibility criteria, syllabus, candidate portal, and downloadable resources like previous years' question papers and answer keys. 

IIT Bombay usually doesn't make any arrangements like baggage counters. So, it is a good idea for candidates not be bring any unnecessary stuff with them to the exam centre. Also, if the candidate has any doubts, he or she must go through the exam-day guidelines published by exam officials to check if any special arrangements are being made. Since it is unlikely that there will be a baggage counter, the candidate can not afford to bring valuable items and leave it unattended outside the exam hall. It is because if any valuable item is lost, IIT Bombay will not take any responsibility.

Yes, there will be biometric verification at the UCEED 2025 exam centre. The biometric information (thumb impression and photograph) will be collected from the candidate before the commencement of the exam. On exam day, the candidate needs to bring with them a valid photo id proof and the admit card. Note that the photo id proof must be in the original; photocopies will not be accepted. Note that the candidate needs to report at the UCEED 2025 exam centre at least 2 hours before the commencement of the exam.

The UCEED 2025 exam will have two sections - Part A and Part B. While the syllabus has been revised for the exam, there are still some topics that overlap. For instance, Part A still continues to have the Analytical and Logical Reasoning, Observation and Design sensitivity, and a few other topics from the various edition. So, candidates can use the previous years papers to practice these topics. For the other topics, the candidate can try out sample papers.

In addition to the syllabus, IIT Bombay has also revised the UCEED 2025 exam pattern.

Part A will now have 57 questions (down from 68), while Part B will have two questions (instead of 1). 

UCEED 2023 question paper included a total of 68 questions. The section-wise questions asked in Part A was: NAT (18), MSQs (18), and MCQs (32). Part B included a solitary Drawing-based question. The section-wise difficulty level of UCEED 2023 is given below.

Part B of the question paper included a sketching-based question of moderate difficulty level. The question carried 60 marks.