CEED

The design task/interview for admission to the M. Des. in Department of Design, IIT Delhi will be held in May 2026 (tentative).

As part of the design task/interview, the candidate is required to upload your digital portfolio. The portfolio must include five best projects (maximum size 10 MB) of the candidate.

The official site reads" To merge and compress your works in a single PDF, you may use online tools such as (https://smallpdf.com/compress-pdf)".

The filename of the pdf must be your IIT Delhi application number. The candidate may carry their physical portfolio on the day of the interview as well, but it is not mandatory.   

The CEED exam is an entrance exam that is conducted in computer-based mode. It is conducted to evaluate candidates' aptitude in the field of design and has two parts, Part A consists of multiple-choice questions and numerical answer type questions measuring general awareness, visualisation, and logical thinking and Part B consist subjective questions requiring candidates to sketch or develop designs. Part A is conducted in online mode whereas Part B is an offline test. The overall difficulty level of the CEED exam is moderate to difficult level. Aspiring candidates can make a way through the CEED exam possibly by understanding exam pattern and syllabus well along with Practicing CEED previous year question papers and sample papers regularly.

The participating institutes of CEED 2026 are colleges that will offer admission to the M.Des and PhD courses solely on the basis of CEED 2026 scores. These institutes not consider scores of other entrance exams, like NIFT and NID DAT, for admission purposes. The list of CEED 2026 participating institutes will be published on the admission portal - ceed.iitb.ac.in.

The online application form for admission to CEED participating institutes will open tentatively in the last week of September 2024. Note that unlike UCEED 2026, IIT Bombay will not conduct any Joint Seat Allotment process for CEED 2026.

Such candidates who qualify CEED 2026 will have to apply directly to a participating college.

In the previous edition of the exam, there were the following eight participating institutes of CEED:

1. IISc Bangalore

2. IIT Bombay

3. IIT Delhi

4. IIT Guwahati

5. IIT Hyderabad

6. IIT Kanpur

7. IIT Roorkee

8. IIT Jodhpur

In addition to participating institutes, there are also CEED result-sharing institutes. 

1. VIT School of Design (V-SIGN), Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore

2. Delhi Technological University, Delhi (formerly Delhi College of Engineering)

3. World University of Design (WUD), Sonepat, Haryana

4. RV University, Bengaluru

5. JK Lakshmipat University Logo JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur

6. Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru

7. MIT ID Indore - Avantika University

8. CEPT University Ahmedabad, Gujarat

9. School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal

10. University of Petroleum and Energy Studies Dehradun
11. Dr Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University Pune

Result-sharing institutes will fill up some of the UG seats based on CEED scores. However, they may also consider scores of other top ecams to fill in rest of the seats.