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Try going for UI (User interface designing) as per the latest job trends that will sure shot hike up your chances to avail a good IT job since with the advancement in human skills and knowledge, MNCs and other companies are looking forward to a manpower which can serve them multiple aspects of the same project they assign you to. With graphic and animation designing you shall be brilliantly able to produce designs in which the website has to be developed but try being a part of website development as well by learning languages like HTML/ CSS, Bootstrap, Query, Javascript and little base of angular so that you yourself get a chance to convert the designs made by you into the running machine code. Together this course is going to prove you really beneficial as you can confirm from the job openings at naukri.com and the packages offered by companies if you have knowledge of all these technologies.
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Yes dear! Absolutely different they are. While real time project handling is considered the two terms are completely different in scope. Graphic design particularly deals with technologies like Photoshop, Core Draw, Logo designing, Illustrator etc. While you are a graphic designer you shall be asked to actually create a visual view of complete project/website you are working on based on the skeletal idea provided to you through UX team or department. You need to work on setting suitable attractive and accessible to all color combinations for web project, colors for each and every element, creation of a styleguide document, measuring each and every pixel of the web page and placing elements accordingly, setting widths and dimensions of other elements like a box, button etc. Whereas as an interactive designer you obtain all details from a graphic designer in the form of styleguides and PSD files and convert it into HTML, CSS, Bootstrap Query and other relevant technological code that runs as a user interface directly from the machine. Graphic designing is less or rather no code area and interactive designing is a pure code area but both of them hold equal job opportunities and interest in them. Also, with the growing IT advancement, both the fields are expected to gradually merge together into one.
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There are multiple design colleges in India and abroad. Based on your financial strength, you can chose either of it. Studying abroad definitely gives you an exposure of global design spectrum with on-hands experience of being mentored by industries leading professionals and designers. However, it is suggestive to pursue Masters from abroad since by then it will give you a clear road map of what specific specialization you want to explore further. India has some great colleges too for undergrad courses in Graphic Design. Some of those are: NID (Ahmedabad), MIT (Pune), NIFT (Mumbai & Delhi), Pearl Academy (Delhi), Shrishti Institute (Bangalore), SID (Pune), ISDI (Mumbai), DJ Academy of Design (Coimbatore), IDC (Mumbai, only Masters). Abroad: Royal College of Arts (UK), Central Saint Martins (UK), Parsons College (US), School of Visual Arts (US), Rhode Island School of Design (US), Cal Arts (US), Aalto University (Finland).

Research is indeed the best hallmark of a good place to learn Mass Media/Communication. Even for other subject's, the quality indeed gets manifested if the university offers quality research. Let me tell you one thing observed during education related counselling, Ph.D. from Government Universities or Central Universities still remain a quality thing because you get guides who are quite qualified on the academic part. There are strong notions that these days the quality has called to the new low all around in research. I shall suggest that you consider JNU, Jamia Milia Islamia, (find out IIMC courses for future) Amity University, Symbiosis Pune etc. It is also to be noted that you can do a Ph.D. from IIT and IIMS as well, because there they offer this through the Social Science department.