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In today's fashion scenario, textiles play an important role as costumes reflect one's personality. The textile industry not only include woven, knitted or printed fabrics used for making clothes but also includes materials used for furnishing, upholstery, carpets, lace, etc. The production of this enormous variety of textiles creates the need for a career in Textile is that discipline of engineering which deals with manufacturing of textiles. One can easily get a job in the below-mentioned places:
- Central Cottage Industries Corporation
- National Jute Manufactures Corporation
- Birds Jute Exports Limited
- Cotton Corporation of India
- National Textile Corporation Limited
Starting salary depends on a number of different factors. Prominent factors are- profile of the employer, employee skills, aptitude and grades attained by the employee. At the start, Diploma Textile Engineers can earn around 10-20k Rupees per month. In case of Government job, salary will be based on Pay Band and scale.

There are many job opportunities which are available to interior design professionals. Design professionals have a choice to work in a supervised setup (Design studios and Interior design firms) or work independently. The Government sector is also known to hire interior design professionals. Government sector jobs in PWDs, Municipal Corporations, and Town Planning Departments are available to interior design professionals and are known to recruit such professionals. They can also become part of Government schemes related to housing and relocation of people. Some well known recruiters include:
Interior Design firms
Architecture and Design firms
Infrastructure and Property Developers
Furniture Manufacturing and Designing firms
Interior Design shops

Even though, there are not many public sector organizations in the aforesaid industries, some of these industries like publishing industry, entertainment industry and fashion industry have government organizations that can offer job opportunities to multimedia professionals. With a view to promote animation in the nation, the Indian government through the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has involved players from the industry of animation in big projects. Therefore, animation professionals can find job opportunities in government sector as well.
Where to take up courses on animation? For beginning a career in animation, candidates will have to take up some animation courses and the names of some of the institutions offering animation courses in India are given below:
- Industrial Design Centre, Mumbai
- Industrial Design Centre, Guwahati
- Global School of Animation and Games, New Delhi
- Academy of Animation and Gaming
- Zee Institute of Creative Arts
- JJ School of Arts, Mumbai
- National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

The B.Sc in Jewelry Design and Management deals with the subjects related to jewelry design from conceptualization, designing, drafting, and material Science, making and finishing aspects of jewelry. The course helps to keep abreast of international trends in jewelry design. The programme teaches about all the facets of jewelry trade from mastering, hand-rendering and casting to analyzing and appraising gemstones and acquiring computer aided design skills. Jewelry designing has become a recognised course and there are many colleges these days that are offering a B.Sc programme in the same:
1. Indian Institute of Gems and Jewellery: Indian Institute of Gems and Jewellery was under the supervision of the German Design and Manufacturing Experts till 2010. The college has 3 campuses in Delhi, Mumbai and Jaipur. This college also has two sister organisations under The GJEPC which are: Gem Testing Laboratory, Jaipur/ Indian Diamond Institute, Surat.
2. Gemological Institute of India: This Institute has been recognised centre for the London based Fellowship (FGA) examinations of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain in India since its inception. The institute provides jewellery designing course at all levels from certificate course to B.sc programme.
3. Indian Institute of Jewellery: This institute has been nurturing the future of Gems & Jewelry Industries since 9 years. IIJM is the only institute in Gujarat, which is recognised by the Central government. of India.
4. Pearl Academy of Fashion: The Pearl Academy is a premium design institute and needs no introduction. It is one of the oldest design institutes in India providing design courses in every sphere.
5. ARCH Academy of Design: The Arch Academy of Design pioneered the first Online Entrance Examination for Design in India in 2011.
6. Vogue Institute of Fashion Technology: Situated in Bangalore, It is alos one of the oldest design college in the country and is one of the top art and design colleges in India.

I would recommend you to go for MIT Institute of Design. The institute has a decade of education practice. The campus has state of the art infrastructure. The institute's prestigious and highly skilled faculty and staffs provide an outstanding learning environment to the students. MIT's course curriculum is way more advanced than any other institute. It challenges the conventional thinking in designing and stresses the importance of innovation. The college also has international tie ups with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Dundee, Northumbria University and Coventry University. Not to mention, the institute's placement cell is also very active and has an excellent placement record. The students in past have been placed in various big companies like IBM, Asian Paints, Godrej, Microsoft etc.

Basically the course curriculum of both the courses are same. However, B.Design is more of a practical knowledge based programme that molds you practically for the fashion designing industry while B.Sc in Fashion Designing is more about academic part of Fashion designing. The learning criteria only differs in the nature of the course. But yes, the degrees do impact the placements. If you are a B.des graduate, you will find employment opportunities in various fashion houses, garment export companies, textile and leather industry. B.Des course also makes you so competent enough to open your own fashion house to exhibit your fashion skill.
Apart from above roles, B.Sc degree on the other hand gives you a leverage to become a teacher in the institutes that impart training in fashion designing.

We have subjects like Visualisation & Representation (basically sketching), Art & Design Aesthetics (history of art and painting in India), Fashion Orientation, Digital Design (CorelDraw), Geometry, Material Studies, Elements of Design and in some cases, Basic English (1st semester).
In 2nd semester we have, again Art and Design Aesthetics, Visualisation, and Representation, Elements of Design (now both in colour medium), Digital Design (Photoshop and Excel), Field Studies (the study of craft clusters), Professional Practices.
Yes, the syllabus is in sync with the global market. You may refer to the link below for more details:
https://www.shiksha.com/design/fashion-design/articles/what-to-expect-in-bdes-course-at-nift-blogId-10855

Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women's University is the first private university in India for women. It was established in the year 2008, at Jaipur in Rajasthan. This university offers courses in more than 30 disciplines and of course design is one of these. Even though the size of the university is small and being a one campus university, puts some restrictions on the functioning. But Jayoti has taken this as an advantage and turned adversity into opportunity. It has tie-ups with many industries in and around Jaipur as well as all India level to accept it's students as interns. This is what industry desires and it's the students who are ultimately benefited. Internship hones and calibrates the inherent talents of its design specialist to the requirement of industry during this period and industry also gets to know the passion and commitment of trainees. Students also learn to know how to cope up with such situations.To conclude, it can be said that JVWU leaves no stone unturned to help students find placements and perhaps its the best place for a young girl/woman to sharpen her skills and get placed after doing her M.Des.

Design ethnography, design research, Ergonomics, Design Process, Strength of Materials, History of Design, Green Design, sustainable design and System Design. Of the many product designs courses in India
Design for industry: Explores creative opportunities for partnerships with small, medium and large scale industries across India to develop core competencies in design and manufacturing for a globalized presence. Projects focus on products and services for consumer needs, manufacturing and economic impact.
Design for quality of life: Explores unique social and cultural responses to existing and emerging technologies as reflected in the creation and adoption of everyday objects of life. Projects focus on design and development of products and services that improve the quality of living in home, office and public environments.
Design for healthcare: Explores a growing movement among designers to design cost-effective healthcare solutions for people who have no / limited access to institutionalized healthcare. Projects leverage the power of design thinking to find unique ways to address the basic challenges of health, survival and progress faced by underserved populations in the Indian context.
Design for social impact: Explores the role of design-led solutions at the national level to the infrastructural challenges of a rapidly growing Indian economy. Projects look at developing scalable solutions to problems of urban mobility, sustenance and social equity that are people-centric and embrace sustainable values.
Design for sustainability: Explores the power of design to influence an ecologically responsible approach to development of products, systems and environments. Designers evolve new systems of development which improve the quality of life and the human experience, while simultaneously restoring the environment, rebuilding the community and creating a sense of oneness with the natural world.
Design led futures: Explores global trends, challenges and opportunities to shape the future. Projects focus on the enormous challenges that India will face in the coming decades in terms of population, health, mobility, sanitation, energy and ecology. Today's technologies are used as a basis to project the future, and concepts generate frameworks to evolve and guide society and behavior in the future
Discipline lead explores global trends, challenges and opportunities to shape the future.