UCEED

IIT Bombay is among the top design colleges in the country. So, most candidates appearing in the UCEED exam will want to know about the category-wise seat matrix at the institute:
Open category - 15 seats
EWS - 3 seats
OBC-NCL - 10 seats
SC - 5 seats
ST - 2 seats
ST-PwD - 1 seat
Note that candidates belonging to open category will not be considered for admission under other categories. However, candidates belonging to reserved categories will also be considered for admission under open category.

The VIT School of Design (V-SIGN), Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, is not a participating institute of UCEED. In fact, in the previous edition of the exam, the institute was a result-sharing institute. Note that the list of UCEED result-sharing institute is updated every year. So, it cannot be confirmed just yet whether VIT School of Design will be a result-sharing institute of UCEED 2024 or not. It the institute joins as one of the result-sharing institutes, then it will allocate some seats in its UG programme on the basis of UCEED 2024 scores.

The result-sharing institutes of UCEED 2024 will offer admission to some of their B. Des seats based on UCEED 2024 scores. However, they will not participate in the Joint Admission Process conducted by IIT Bombay. There were 22 result-sharing institutes for UCEED 2023. Since the participate institutes do not participate in the joint counseling conducted by IIT Bombay, the candidate needs to apply to them separately. Note that the participating institutes will also accept scores of other top exams like NIFT and NID that to offer admission to their design courses.

Admission to the B. Des programme at UCEED 2024 participating colleges will be on the basis of UCEED 2024 merit rank. So, candidates with a higher rank will get preference in the seat allotment process. The admission committee will also consider the college option opted by the candidate and their order of priority. Note that to get a merit rank in UCEED 2024, candidates must have qualified Part A. In case the candidate fails to qualify Part A, his or her Part B answer booklet will not be evaluated.

The candidate has to select a participating institute at the time of filling the UCEED 2024 counseling application form. The registration for UCEED 2024 counseling will open sometime in March 2024. Note that the allotment of seats will be based on the merit rank of the candidate in UCEED 2024 and college option opted for at the time of registration. The admission committee will given preference to the higher ranked candidate in the allotment process. So, to give oneself a better chance of getting admission to ones preferred college, one must try to get a higher rank.

The participating institutes of UCEED 2024 are colleges that will offer admission to B. Des courses on the basis of UCEED 2024 scores. These institutes will participate in the joint seat allocation process conducted by IIT Bombay. There are currently five participating institutes of UCEED 2024. The counseling registration for admission to UCEED 2023 participating colleges will be held sometime in mid-March 2024. The seat allotment will be done in THREE rounds. The 1st round of allotment will be announced around the 2nd week of April 2024.