NIFT

To register for NIFT 2025 counseling, the candidate had to pay a registration fee of INR 9,300. 

However, the candidate is not required to pay any fee to select preferences. 

The candidate will have to pay a seat-acceptance fee of INR 1,83,200 only if he or she has been allocated a seat. The seat-acceptance fee has to be paid online before the given deadline. Note that if the payment is not done within the given deadline, then the allocated seat will be cancelled and will be allocated to the next candidate in the order of merit.

The seat allotment for NIFT 2025 will be based on the merit rank of the candidate and preference opted during counseling registration.

Seat Withdrawal Policy:

The candidate who are allotted seats between Round 1 and 4 will be able to withdraw their seats.

If the candidate withdraws their seats, only the security deposit will be refunded.

There is no withdrawal option for the SPOT round.

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.

The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) will release the seat allotment of NIFT 2025 for Round I around the 3rd week of June 2025.

The seat allotment will be based on the merit rank of candidates and academic option picked at the time of counseling registration. 

Such candidates who are allotted seats have to submit willingness and pay the admission fee by the given deadline.

Note that NIFT 2025 counseling will be conducted in four regular and one spot rounds. The admission fee amount for regular seats at all campuses is INR 1,83,000.

NRI Sponsored candidates need to pay INR 6,88, 4000 or INR 9,72,000 depending on the campus they have been allocated.

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.