UCEED Counselling

No, you cannot change the institute once the UCEED 2026 counselling process is over. A candidate is not allowed to shift from one institute to another. The candidate will have to select their preferred institute at the time of counselling registration.

As per the information given in the UCEED 2026 information brochure, 10% of seats in every course will be reserved for Gen-EWS category. 

Note that to apply under this category, you must meet the conditions given in the OM No. 20013/01/2018-BC-II,  issued by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. When applying for UCEED 2026, you can select your category.

UCEED seat allotment will be provisional and will be confirmed by admitting institutes only after fees are paid, documents are duly verified, and their formalities are completed. 

If any of the steps are left incomplete, the seat allotment can be cancelled.

In such a case, the vacant seats will be offered to the candidate next in the order of merit.

There will be a total of around 245 seats in IITs for the UCEED 2026 B.Des Programme. IIT Bombay will offer 37 seats, IIT Delhi will have 20 seats and IIT Guwahati will have 56 seats.

You can download candidate responses for Part-A of UCEED 2026 only till the declaration of the UCEED result. The download option will be disabled once the UCEED results are declared. No further requests will be entertained in this regard.

Using the candidate responses, the candidate can check their answers with those given in the answer key. This will help to calculate probable scores and thus chances of admission.

IIT Bombay will release a common application form for all the IITs for the UCEED 2026 Joint Seat Allocation on March 14, 2026, at 10 PM. The registration will be open till April 10, 2026, 5:30 PM. 

The counselling for UCEED 2026 will be conducted online as a Joint Seat Allocation process. The counselling will be conducted in a centralized manner.

IIT Bombay will conduct counselling registration from March 2026. All candidates who qualify in the UCEED 2026 exam will be eligible to register for counselling.

The allotment of seats for admission to the B.Des programme offered by participating colleges is based on the following parameters:

• UCEED 2026 merit rank of the candidate
• College option selected during registration.

The allotment of seats for UCEED admission to the B.Des programme offered by participating colleges is based on the following parameters:

• UCEED 2026 merit rank of the candidate
• College option selected during registration.

The counselling process for UCEED 2026 will be conducted by IIT Bombay as a Joint Seat Allocation process.

To participate in UCEED 2026 counselling, the candidate must have qualified in the UCEED 2026 entrance exam and been allocated a merit rank.

This means that if the candidate has failed to qualify Part A exam, he or she will not be allocated a merit rank, and therefore is not eligible to take part in the counselling process.

The counselling for UCEED 2026 will be conducted online as a Joint Seat Allocation process. The counseling will be conducted in a centralized manner.

IIT Bombay will conduct counseling registration from March 14, 2026. All candidates who qualify in the UCEED 2026 exam will be eligible to register for counselling.