National Institute of Design Ahmedabad Paldi Answered Questions

Automobile engineering is quite better than B.Des in automobile engineering or automotive engineering is a part of mechanical engineering. Through the application of automotive technology, the course offers specialisation in vehicle designing, repairing, testing and assembling. In this programme, one can also learn safety engineering, quality management and control, automotive analytics as well as assembling and installation of various automobiles. BE/B.Tech in automobile engineering is a 4-year programme. This programme also involves the study of courses related to aerospace and marine engineering.

I'll answer it in short.
NID is purely dedicated to designing areas. There are few courses only for fashion related.
People work in depth of each area of design viz, fashion, automobiles, lifestyle, architecture, film, cartoons, movie making, communication and much more. They do not just stick to the fashion world.
NID people work to change the world.
NIFT is mostly dedicated to the fashion world as I said earlier.
There are many branches but indirectly they all are connected with fashion only, viz; Leather, Textiles, Lifestyle, Knitwear, Fashion communication etc.
I hope this will give you some idea.
well, I would say nothing is better or worse though there is only one NID in India, so everyone wants to be on top.
Don't you?
NID have very limited no. Of seats for both PG & UG.
Nid exams pick up different categories of students each year based on what they are looking.
Like, if they are picking students who are good in imagination or they have a good presence of minds.
Accordingly, they compose their question papers.
NIFT almost goes on the same pattern.

Architecture and Design, although appear to be similar, require different skill sets and abilities from their students. Design requires more innovative thinking and creativity while architecture requires similar traits, a higher level of technical knowledge and skills of sciences is a required. So I would suggest that you figure out where your interests lie and accordingly find colleges suited for you.

It's difficult to give an affirmative yes or no answer to such a question. Animation at NID , is a vigorous course requiring consistency, determination, hard work and rigour throughout. The faculty is one of the best, with alot of experience in the industry. They are amazing guides and mentors as well, and the creativity around you does inspire one to push the boundaries and do something incredible.