Design

There is no university which provides lateral entry for a correspondence course. You can check the same from the college you wish to take admission in if they can allow you.

Refer to the link below:
NIFT : http://nift.ac.in/scholarship.html
NID : http://admissions.nid.edu/faq.aspx#fas

For dress designing, the best course is fashion designing.

NIFT offers Ph.D in the areas of design, management and technology as applied with broad reference to Textiles, Fashion, Lifestyle and Apparel Sectors of the Industry. The programme is designed for the purpose of carrying out research in textiles, fashion and the apparel sector to create a body of o

The best colleges for jewellery design include NIFT or NID. You may get in any one of them.

Yes, you can take admission on the basis of class 12th. But IIFT is not a recognised institution and they don't have such good faculty for fashion education. The fee structure is already on their website.

Refer to the link below to find out colleges for interior designing in Kolkata. the fee differs from institute to institute.
https://goo.gl/QyHFUA

The Design Aptitude Tests will be conducted in two stages:
Stage 1: Design Aptitude Test (that) Prelims
Stage 2: Design Aptitude Test (that) Mains
The Design Aptitude Test (that) Prelims primarily evaluates each candidate on the following abilities:
Knowledge
Comprehension
Analysis
Creativity
Visualisation
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