Colleges in Orissa

NIFT has 100% centralised placements. Students can apply for on-campus and off-campus placements. Top recruiting companies' departments wise are:

Masters of Fashion Management: Abhishek Industries, Adidas, Aditya Birla Group, American Pacific, Arthur Anderson, Arvind Mills, Ashima, Benetton, Blackberrys, Body shop, Busana Apparel Group, Calvin Klein, Canary Blue, Carrefour, Colour Plus, Creative Group, Creatnet, Debenhams, East West, Esprit, Fabindia, FCuk, Federated Group, Francis Wacziarg, Future Group, GAP India, Givo, Indian Terrain, Infosys, ITC Wills Lifestyle, JWT, Koutons, Lacoste, Landmark, Levis, Li & Fung, Lifestyle, Marks & Spencer, Mast Lanka, MCann Erickson, Mckinsey, etc.

Bachelor of Design (Fashion Design): Arvind Garments, Benetton, Freelook, Indus League Clothing, ITC Ltd, Levis, Lifestyle, Madura Garments, Modelama Exports, Omega Designs, Orient Craft, Pantaloon, Proline, Shahi Exports, Span India, Spykar, Swarvoski India, Uni Style India, Designers like Rohit Bal, Gaurav Gupta, etc.

Bachelor of Design (Accessory Design): Godrej, Matti Design, United Color of Benetton, Pantaloon, Westside, Adidas, Episode, Reliance Retail, Charbon, Swarovski, Tiffany, Michael Aram, Li & Fung, D’damas, Liberty Shoes Ltd. Gitanjali Jewellery Pvt. Ltd, VIP luggage, Tanishq, Titan, ITC Wills Lifestyle Ravisaant etc.

Bachelor of Design (Textile Design): Arvind Mills, Indian Terrian, Grasim Industries, Madura Brands, Mafatlal Industries Ltd, Nahar Industries, Shingora International, Ambadi Enterprises, Crew BOS, Himmatsingka Seide, Abhishek Industries, Welspun India, Shades of India, Linenscapes (India) Ltd. Textrade International Pvt. Ltd, Mura Fabrics, Portico, Creative Mobus Fabrics, Rateria Exports, Mahajan Overseas, Triburg, Bharat Silks, Third World Exports, The Shop, etc.

Bachelor of Design (Fashion Communication): Pantaloon, Shopper’s Stop, marks & Spencers, Christian Dior, Lifetsyle, Benetton, Liberty, Freelook, Lopez Designs, Marie Claire, Images, Times of India, Asian Age, Couture Asia, Femina, FDCI, MTV, NDTV, Times Now, Headlines Today, Perfect Relations, Wizcraft, Ogilvy & Mather, Lintas, Madura Garments, Encompass Events, Vogue, Creative Crest, JWT, IC, Tanishq, etc.

Bachelor of Fashion Technology (Apparel Production): Pokarna Group, Gini & Jony, Integra Apparels, Third Eyesight, Taffeles, Laguna Clothing, AYN Accessories (Hong Kong), Pantaloon, ITC LRBD, Color Plus, Celebrity Fashions, Amabattur Clothing Company, LT Karle, RMX Joss, Texport Syndicate, Gokaldas Exports, etc.

NIFT Bhubaneswar’s campus is spread over an area of 10 acres. The NIFT Bhubaneswar campus has state-of-the-art academic infrastructure facilities that include imported and indigenous sets of machines to give a multidirectional learning experience to the campus students. The highlights of the academic infrastructure are given below.

• 7 IT labs with all the latest hardware and software
• Advance weaving studio with electronic Jacquard and Dobby
• Weaving Studio with lightweight processed wood tabletop looms
• 4 Garment Construction and Pattern making labs with all the latest equipment and machinery
• Hardware Workshop and wet workshop with allied tools and equipment
• Dedicated Fashion and Photography studio with all audio-visual support
• All classrooms are well connected with intra-network and equipped with audio control systems and LCD projectors

NIFT is a national-level design entrance exam conducted by the National Institute of Fashion Technology to shortlist candidates for the NIFT 2024 participating institutes. The NIFT entrance exam is conducted in two parts:

• Part I - It comprises the written exams - GAT and CAT. The GAT paper is mandatory for all programs, while only BDes and MDes candidates need to take the CAT paper.
• Part II - Candidates are shortlisted for Part II based on their performance in the written exams. For BDes candidates, Part II comprises a Situation Test, whereas PG candidates need to appear in a Personal Interview. The only exception is the BFTech program, where the admission merit list will be prepared solely based on GAT scores.   

The FINAL score of NIFT 2024 for the rest of the programs will be prepared by giving weightage to the written exams and Situation Test/ Personal Interview.

To be able to secure good marks in the NIFT exam, candidates can read the points below to get good results:

• Get familiar with the NIFT 2024 syllabus and exam pattern
• Plan according to the syllabus
• Take notes for a better understanding
• Solve previous year’s question papers
• Take sufficient rest