Fashion Design

The NIFTs are ranked among the top design colleges in India. As per India Today 2023 rankings for top fashion design colleges in India, the top 8 positions were occupied by NIFTs. In India Today 2022 rankings as well, the top eight positions were occupied by the NIFTs. NIFT Delhi was the number one ranked college, followed by NIFT Mumbai and NIFT Bangalore, in 2nd and 3rd positions. Speaking of placements at NIFT, candidates passing out of NIFT Delhi on average earns INR 5.5 LPA. Meanwhile, candidates passing out of NIFT Kolkata earns about INR 5.7 LPA. In comparison, NIFT Bengaluru pass outs can expect an average salary of INR 3 Lacs LPA.

In NIFT counselling process, documents of candidates are verified and they are offered a seat for admission in a specific course and college depending on their NIFT rank. As part of the NIFT counselling process, candidates need to get registered and enter preferences of academic programme. Academic programme in this sense means selection of the academic course and NIFT; entries should be in the order of priority. The counseling process for NIFT 2024 is being held online as a centralized seat-allotment process. The allotment of seats will be based on NIFT 2024 merit rank and college/ course picked at the time of registration. Post seat allotment, candidates need to pay the seat-acceptance fees.

NIFT 2024 counselling has concluded. 

NIFT counseling 2025 had FOUR regular and one spot seat-allotment rounds.

The seat allotment for Round IV was announced on July 17, 2024. SPOT round of allotment was conducted on July 27, 2024.

Candidates who were allotted seats in the SPOT Round had to pay the seat-acceptance fee by July 29 (midnight).

Note that there was no OPTION to withdraw seats in the SPOT round.

Fresh registrations were conducted for the SPOT round from July 21-23, 2024. 

NIFT counselling is conducted in online mode for admission to the 18 participating National Institute of Fashion Technologies (NIFTs). 

The allotment of seats is done as per the NIFT merit rank of the candidate and college options picked (and their order of priority) at the time of registration.