UCEED

Obtaining All India Rank (AIR) 2735 in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced may never be a ticket to an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). The admission to IITs is dependent on several factors among them being the total number of seats available, the choice of course and the completion from other candidates who may have different ranks and from diverse categories. 

For BDes UCEED scores are accepted in more than 30-40 colleges. While GLS Institute of Design Entrance Exam is only considered for GLS Institute. For UCEED students have to prepare two section Part A and B, both are conducted in English medium. While GLS DAT considers various parts with a interview. If you are targeting GLS Institute, then you should appear for GLD DAT, otherwise you should give UCEED Entrance exam.

Yes, you can definitely do Designing in Mumbai without UCEED. You can refer to the table below for the best Designing colleges in Mumbai that doesnt require UCEED score:

Hope this answered your question!

IIT Bombay will declare the results of the UCEED 2025 exam on March 7, 2025. However, the scorecards will be available for download only from March 10, 2025.

So, you will not be able to download the scorecard on result day. 

The last date to download the scorecard is June 11, 2025.

The candidate needs to download and take a printout of the scorecard. Note that screen shots of the results will not be accepted in palce of the scorecard.

UCEED 2025 exam results will be declared on March 7, 2025.

Note that scorecards will be available for download from March 10, 2025. On result day, the candidate will only be able to see their qualifying status and scores. 

The results will be declared for all candidates who have appeared in the entrance exam. However, the scorecard will contain the merit ranks, Part B, and total score only for shortlisted candidates.

The application form for UCEED 2025 has opened. As per the official notification, the application fee has been revised.

Here we provide the category-wise UCEED application fee.

• Female candidates (all categories) and SC/ST/PwD candidates had to pay INR 2,000.
• All other candidates needed to pay INR 4,000 as the application fee.

Mode of fee payment

The fee has to be paid online using credit card/ debit card/ internet banking. Note that the UCEED application fee is no-refundable. This means, once the fee is paid, it will not be refunded whether you appear in the UCEED 2025 exam or not.

To appear in the UCEED 2025 exam, the candidate needs to meet the following criteria:

• Age limit: The candidate must be born on or after October 1, 2000. In the case of candidates belonging to SC, ST, and PwD categories, there is a relaxation of 5 years.

• Number of attempts - A candidate is allowed to appear in UCEED exam for a maximum of two times and that too in consecutive years.

• Academic requirements - The candidate must have passed 10+2 exam in 2024 or 2025. Those who appeared for the first time in their qualifying examination in 2023 or earlier are NOT eligible.

The counseling for UCEED 2025 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 the March 14-31, 2025; all candidates who qualify in the UCEED 2025 exam will be eligible to register for counseling.

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

• UCEED 2025 merit rank of the candidate
• College option selected during registration.

The counseling process for UCEED 2025 will be conducted by IIT Bombay as a Joint Seat Allocation process.

To participate in UCEED 2024 counseling, the candidate must have qualfied in the UCEED 2025 entrance exam and been allocated a merit rank.

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

Note that the seat allotment for the B.Des program is done in five rounds.