Fashion Designing Courses - Admission Process, Eligibility, Courses, Required Skill Sets

Fashion design courses are gradually getting mainstream as more and more candidates look for alternative careers that allow them to explore their creative urges. 

Fashion Designing Courses - The fashion industry in the country continues to grow at a rapid clip, thanks in part Bollywood and sports celebrities, who at many times act as a catalyst. The burgeoning fashion industry in turn has helped create a demand for people with technical, practical, and theoretical knowledge of the various aspects of fashion designing. To cater to this need of skilled people, various education institutes have come up that offer almost all the popular fashion designing courses the field needs. Some of the popular fashion design courses include BDes , BFTech , MDes , and MFTech .

The popular colleges where fashion designing courses are offered are:

• National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)
• Symbiosis Institute of Design
• Amity School of Fashion Technology, Noida
• Pearl Academy, etc.

In this article let us discuss the admission process, top colleges, eligibility criteria, and specializations.

Fashion Design Courses Admission Process 

The admission to fashion design courses depends on the type of course - degree, diploma, or certificate. The period of the course also matters.

• Certificate courses - Generally, admission to certificate courses in fashion design is open to any candidate who has completed 10+2. Further, there is no entrance exam involved, as direct admission is the most prevalent mode of admission.
• Diploma or advanced diploma courses - Marks of the qualifying exam will be considered for admission. In addition, there may also be a personal interview.
• UG and PG courses - Top colleges like NIFT, ÌIAD, and School of Fashion Technology conducts their own entrance exam for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate fashion design courses. 
• PhD courses - Admission is conducted based on merit of national-level exams like CSIR UGC NET.
  

Eligibility Criteria for Admission to Fashion Designing Courses

Fashion design courses can be undertaken at 10+2, degree, and PhD levels. The eligibility criteria for admission to various courses are given below.

Popular Entrance Exams for Admission to Fashion Design Courses

As mentioned above, admission to certificate and diploma fashion design courses are based on merit of qualifying exams, whereas admission to UG Design and PG Design courses is more or less through entrance exams. 

At the undergraduate level, popular entrance exams include NIFT Entrance Exam, NID Entrance Exam, UCEED, SAT India, Pearl Academy Entrance Exam, SEED, and IIAD Entrance Exam. 

For admission to postgraduate design courses, you may pick from entrance exams like CEED, NIFT, NID Entrance Exam, etc. 

Popular Fashion Design Courses

Some of the popular design courses are mentioned in the table below.

Common skill sets required to successfully complete a fashion designing course

Each design course has its own characteristics and there are some key and sometimes fundamental differences. But there are also some common traits that percolate all design courses and could help the student perform better.

Some of these special skill sets are mentioned here.

1. Good communication skills
2. An innate sense of style and aesthetics
3. A creative bent of mind
4. Ability to visualize things and to give shape to these visualizations
5. Keen interest in latest fashion trends, especially those related to one’s area of specialization
6. Attention to detail.