Are you dreaming of a career in design at India's topmost institute? UCEED 2026 Entrance Exam will take you there. The UCEED Entrance Exam is a national-level examination, organised every year by IIT Bombay for Bachelor of Design (BDes) programmes. Read in detail to know about the Applications, Admission process, Dates, etc.
UCEED Scorecards are made available from March 10, 2026 till July 31, 2026. It can be downloaded from the Candidate's Portal. It is valid for a period of one year from the date of issue. After the announcement of Cut off, IIT Bombay declared the UCEED result on March 06, 2026. It will be valid for one year from the date of release.
UCEED Exam was conducted on January 18, 2026, by IIT Bombay. The exam time was from 9 AM to 12 PM on Sunday. UCEED reporting time for the exam was 7 AM. There was biometric attendance at the UCEED test centres. All candidates must carry a printout of their UCEED Hall ticket with a Photo ID proof to the centre. Entry to the examination centre after the start of IIT UCEED Entrance Exam (9:00 AM) was not allowed.
Latest Updates:
- What is UCEED?
- UCEED Result/Score 2026
- UCEED Seat Allotment and Counselling 2026
- UCEED Fee Structure 2026
- UCEED Participating Colleges 2026
- UCEED Important Dates 2026
- What is the UCEED Eligibility Criteria 2026?
- UCEED Admission Process 2026
- UCEED Hall Ticket 2026
- UCEED Exam Centres 2026
- UCEED Entrance Exam Answer Key 2026
- UCEED Registration 2026
- UCEED Syllabus and Question Paper Pattern 2026
- UCEED Exams 2026
What is UCEED?
UCEED stands for Undergraduate Common Entrance Exam for Design. It is one of the top-notch exams conducted for admission in B.Des Programmes in IITs. UCEED 2026 will be conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay under the guidance of the UCEED-CEED Implementation Committee 2026 (UCI Committee). The admissions to the B.Des programme at IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee, and IIITDM Jabalpur are done through the UCEED entrance Examination. There are many result-sharing institutes that accept the UCEED scores for B.Des Admissions.
The highlights of the UCEED 2026 Exams are as follows:
| Features |
Details |
|---|---|
| Exam name |
Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) |
| Conducting institute |
IIT Bombay |
| Exam Level |
National |
| Exam frequency |
Once a year |
| Exam mode |
The UCEED question paper has two parts:
|
| Exam duration |
3 hours |
| No. of test cities |
27 |
| No. of test takers |
12,084 (UCEED 2020), 13,549 (UCEED 2023) |
| Exam website |
ucceed.iitb.ac.in |
Commonly asked questions
On the day of the UCEED 2026 exam, shikha.com correspondents did a live coverage of the exam. Our correspondents spoke to the exam takers once they came out of the exam hall and tried to extract all the key information about the exam and corresponding events.
This student interaction includes insights on the expected cut-off as well. The student were also asked to explain why they believe the cut-off would be what they think. The candidate by consulting the exam analysis would be able to access their performance.
The cut off marks for UCEED 2026 Part A were released on February 05, 2026.
The admission cut-off for Round I of UCEED 2026 will be released alongside the seat allotment results on April 21, 2026.
This will be followed by 2nd allotment on May 19, 2026. The 3rd round of allotment will be declared on June 10, 2026.
The cut-off has been released in the form of category-wise opening and closing ranks. Also, the cut-off is released for all the participating institutes. Candidates who meet the cut-off criteria will get admission to the B. Des programme. However, if the candidate fails to meet the cut-off criteria, he or she will be considered for admission in subsequent rounds. Note that UCEED 2026 counseling will have FIVE seat allotment rounds, and for each round a separate cut-off would be released.
UCEED Result/Score 2026
UCEED Results 2026 were released on March 06, 2026 on the official website (www.uceed.iitb.ac.in). Candidates must use their user login and password (created during registration) to check their results. No hard copies of the UCEED 2026 Scorecard will be sent to the candidates.
The responses of the candidates for Part-A of UCEED 2026 will be available for download ONLY until the declaration of the UCEED result. Candidates will not be able to download the Part-A responses once the UCEED results are declared. The responses will be disabled, and no requests will be entertained.
All the candidates who have qualified in the UCEED 2026 Entrance Examination will be shortlisted and will be given a common merit rank (All India Rank). The Ranks will be assigned by considering the total marks of Part A and Part B in UCEED 2026.
If the total marks scored by two or more candidates are the same, then the tie-break policy will be used for awarding ranks.
IIT Bombay released the UCEED cut-off for Part A on February 05, 2026. It is released on uceed.iitb.ac.in. Cut off for UCEED Part A is available in the form of Mean and Standard Deviation. The mean and standard deviation for Part-A (UCEED 2026) are 70.86 and 25.77. It will be released for all the students who have appeared for the UCEED Entrance Exam.
UCEED Seat Allotment and Counselling 2026
UCEED will have Five Rounds of Seat Allotment. The schedule is released. The seats will be allotted based on the applicant’s All India Rank (AIR) in UCEED 2026, category and choice of institutes. The candidates who will be selected for the allotment will be given a Provisional Allotment Letter via their registered Email. Candidates need to confirm their seats by paying the Seat Acceptance Fee of ₹60,000 (Rupees Sixty Thousand only) for GEN/EWS/OBC-NCL and ₹ 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand only) for SC/ST/PwD.
The UCEED 2026 Seat Allotment schedule for Round I, Round II, Round III, Round IV and Round V are
| Seat Allotment Round | Date of Announcement | Payment of Seat Acceptance Fees | Withdrawal of seat / exit from seat allocation process | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start Date | End Date / Time | Start Date | End Date / Time | ||
| I | April 21, 2026 | April 21, 2026 | April 29, 2026; 6:00 PM |
April 30, 2026 | May 11, 2026; 6:00 PM |
| II | May 19, 2026 | May 19, 2026 | May 27, 2026; 6:00 PM |
May 28, 2026 | June 09, 2026; 6:00 PM |
| III | June 10, 2026 | June 10, 2026 | June 14, 2026; 6:00 PM |
June 15, 2026 | June 19, 2026; 6:00 PM |
| IV | June 24, 2026 | June 24, 2026 | June 28, 2026; 6:00 PM |
June 29, 2026 | July 01, 2026; 6:00 PM |
| V | July 03, 2026 | July 03, 2026 | July 09, 2026; 6:00 PM |
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UCEED Seat Matrix 2026
The following table shows the Seat Allotment for different categories for the year 2025-26:
| Institute | Open | Open-PwD | EWS | EWS-PwD | OBC-NCL | OBC-NCL-PwD | SC | SC-PwD | ST | ST-PwD | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IIT Bombay | 14 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 37 |
| IIT Delhi | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 |
| IIT Guwahati | 22 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 56 |
| IIT Hyderabad | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 30 |
| IIT Roorkee | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 |
| IIITDM Jabalpur | 25 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 66 |
| IIT Indore | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 |
| Total | 94 | 5 | 25 | 2 | 63 | 1 | 34 | 3 | 16 | 2 | 245 |
Commonly asked questions
IIT Bombay is among the most popular institutes to pursue a design course in India. So, it is no surprise that cut-off for admission to the institute is pretty high. UCEED Cutoff marks for Part A were out on February 05, 2026. For IIT Bombay, in 2024, the cutoff marks for Open category were: Opening: 1 and Closing: 14.
Yes, the exam analysis will also include the expected cut-off.
On the day of the UCEED 2026 exam, shikha.com correspondents will do a live coverage of the exam. Our correspondents will speak to the exam takers once they come out of the exam hall and try to extract all the key information about the exam and corresponding events.
This student interaction will include insights on the expected cut-off as well. The student will also be asked to explain why they believe the cut-off would be what they think. The candidate, by consulting the exam analysis, will be able to access their performance.
UCEED 2026 question paper will have two parts, Part A and Part B. Part B answer booklet will be checked only if a candidate qualifies Part A or meets cut-off. The qualifying cut-off for Part A will be determined by admission committee. It will be used to shortlist candidates for Part A. All candidates who qualify Part A will be allocated a merit rank and total score.
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UCEED Fee Structure 2026
The UCEED Fee for the B.Des programme will depend on the various participating and UCEED result-sharing institutes. Candidates need to check the fee structure of the respective institute.
UCEED Participating Colleges 2026
There are seven participating institutes of UCEED 2025. IIT Roorkee was newly added in the previous edition of the exam. The participating institutes offer B.Des courses and have an intake of 245 seats. Admission to the course will be strictly based on UCEED 2026 merit ranks.
The List of UCEED Participating Institutions is as follows:
| Sr No. |
Institute |
Design Department |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
IIT Bombay |
IDC School of Design |
| 2 |
Department of Design |
|
| 3 |
IIT Guwahati |
Department of Design |
| 4 |
Department of Design |
|
| 5 |
IIT Roorkee |
Department of Design |
| 6 |
Design Discipline |
|
| 7 |
IIT Indore |
School of Innovation |
UCEED Important Dates 2026
The following table shows the important dates for UCEED 2026.
| Event | UCEED 2026 Date |
|---|---|
| Start date for Online Registration | October 01, 2025 |
| Last date for Online Registration with regular fee | November 05, 2026 |
| Last date for Online Registration with late fee | November 10, 2025 |
| Final late registration deadline | November 10, 2025 |
| Start date for Admit Card downloading | January 02, 2026 |
| Last date for rectification of discrepancies in Admit Card | January 08, 2026 |
| UCEED 2025 Exam Date & Time | January 18, 2026 (Sunday), 09:00 AM to 12:00 Noon |
| Release of Draft Answer Key and candidates’ response for Part-A | January 19, 2026 |
| Last date to submit comments on Draft Answer Key | January 22, 2026 |
| Release of Final Answer Key for Part-A | January 28, 2026 |
| Announcement of cut-off marks for Part-A | February 05, 2026 |
| Declaration of Results | March 06, 2026 |
| Start date for Score Card downloading | March 10, 2026 |
| Application Process for BDes Programme starts | As per Admission Schedule |
| Last date for Score Card downloading | July 31, 2026 |
What is the UCEED Eligibility Criteria 2026?
All the candidates who wish to appear for the UCEED 2026 Entrance Examination must fulfill the following three Criteria:
Criteria 1 – Age limit:
The candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 2001, if belonging to the OPEN/EWS/OBC-NCL category, and born on or after October 1, 1996, if belonging to the SC, ST, or PwD category.
Criteria 2 – Number of attempts:
The maximum attempts a candidate can have is two times in two consecutive years. The UCEED score is valid for one year and only for admissions in the same corresponding academic year.
Criteria 3 – Qualifying examination:
A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2025 or 2026 to be eligible for attempting UCEED 2026. Students from all the streams (Science, Commerce, and Arts & Humanities) are eligible. Those who appeared for the first time in their qualifying examination (Class XII) in 2024 or earlier are NOT eligible to appear in UCEED 2026.
UCEED Admission Process 2026
The step-wise UCEED 2026 admission process is as follows:
1. Fill the UCEED Application Form.
2. Download the UCEED Admit Card.
3. Appear for the UCEED Entrance Exam.
4. Check UCEED Result and Rank. Download the Scorecard.
5. Appear for the UCEED Seat Allotment Rounds/ Counselling.
6. Wait for the Provisional Offer Letter and pay the fees after getting the Provisional Offer Letter.
UCEED Hall Ticket 2026
UCEED Admit card was released on January 02, 2026 for all the candidates who have successfully completed the registration. The UCEED Hall ticket is available on the official website. Candidates can log in using their credentials. Admit Card UCEED will have information like Name, UCEED Registration ID, Roll Number for UCEED 2025, Date of Birth, Category, photograph, signature, examination schedule, examination centre details, and instructions to candidates.
UCEED also provides an opportunity to the candidates to rectify any discrepancies that might have occurred in the Admit Card. Candidates must do so within the time alloted.
UCEED Exam Centres 2026
UCEED had test centres in almost all parts of the country. Students had to select three cities at the time of filling out the application form. No request to change the city were accepted once the registration is complete. Candidates had to make their own arrangements in the city allotted to them for the examination. The city was allotted to the candidates on the basis of the city preference filled by them.
UCEED 2026 Entrance exam was conducted in the following UCEED Test Centres:
| UCEED 2026 Exam Cities |
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|---|---|---|
| Ahmedabad |
Bengaluru |
Bhopal |
| Bhubaneswar |
Chandigarh/ Mohali |
Chennai |
| Dehradun |
Delhi |
Ernakulum |
| Panaji |
Guwahati |
Hyderabad |
| Jaipur |
Lucknow |
Kolkata |
| Kozhikode |
Mumbai |
Nagpur |
| Patna |
Pune |
Raipur |
| Thiruvananthapuram |
Thrissur |
Visakhapatnam |
| Coimbatore |
Ernakulam |
Mysuru |
UCEED Entrance Exam Answer Key 2026
UCEED released answer key for the IIT UCEED Exam. Draft Answer Key and candidates’ response for Part-A was out on January 19, 2026. The last date for uploading comments (if any) on the Draft Answer Key in the candidate’s portal was January 22, 2026, 05:00 pm. UCEED released the final answer key on January 28, 2026 for Part A.
UCEED Registration 2026
UCEED Registration closed with late fee November 10, 2025. UCEED Application is closed with regular fee. The last date for UCEED Application 2026 with regular fees was extended from October 31, 2025 to November 05, 2025. UCEED B.Des Application fee was INR. 4,000 for all the applicants (all categories and genders). Application fee for female and reserved candidates is INR 2,000. The fee will be non-refundable and non-transferable.
UCEED Syllabus and Question Paper Pattern 2026
UCEED Entrance Exam is conducted by IIT Bombay. The exam is conducted in two parts: Part A and Part B.
UCEED Part- A will have questions from the following topics:
- Visualization and spatial reasoning: This will check the candidate’s ability to visualise and transform 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships.
- Practical and scientific knowledge: This topic is know-how of scientific principles and everyday objects.
- Observation and design sensitivity:This topic will check the capacity to detect concealed properties in daily life and think critically about them. Attention to detail, classification, analysis, inference and prediction.
- Environment and society: How much a candidate is good with General awareness of environmental, social, and cultural connections with design.
- Analytical and logical reasoning: Candidate’s ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative information.
- Language: How proficient is the candidate in reading and comprehending Standard English?
- Creativity: How well-versed is the candidate in grasping verbal and non-verbal analogies, metaphors, signs, and symbols?
UCEED Part B will have questions on the following topics:
- Drawing: Will check candidate’s ability to draw products, people or scenes in proportion with good line quality, composition, proportion, perspective, and shading.
- Design aptitude: Will analyze candidate’s capability to practically and appropriately respond to problems/situations with ingenuity and empathy.
UCEED Exams 2026
UCEED Exams were conducted on January 18, 2026. The Entrance Exam of UCEED is conducted in two parts.
- There will be one question paper with both parts: A and B. The exam will be of three hours.
- The medium of the exam will be in English.
- The UCEED 2026 exam will be of 300 marks. Candidates will have to attend both parts as both parts are compulsory.
UCEED Question Paper Format 2026: Part A
The following table shows the types of questions, number of questions, marking scheme and total marks for UCEED Part A:
| Section | Type of Questions | Number of Questions | Marks for Correct Answer | Marks for Wrong Answer | Marks for Not Attempted | Total Marks for the Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Numerical Answer Type (NAT) | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 56 |
| 2 | Multiple Select Question (MSQ) | 15 | Partial Marking | -1 | 0 | 60 |
| 3 | Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) | 28 | 3 | -0.71 | 0 | 84 |
| Total | 57 | 200 |
UCEED Question Paper Format 2026 : Part B
The following table shows the types of questions, number of questions, and total marks for UCEED Part B:
| Type of Question | Number of Questions | Total Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Sketching | 1 | 50 |
| Design Aptitude | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 2 | 100 |
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| UCEED Question Paper | UCEED Mock Test | UCEED Preparations |

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Student Forum
Answered 6 days ago
Ecole Intuit Lab, New Delhi offers both merit and entrance based admission to its BVoc programme. The students may get selected without a valid UCEED score as well. However, the candidates may have to go through other selection rounds.
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 3 weeks ago
Yes, the UCEED Result is not out now. It was showing 502 Bad Gateway initially, due to heavy traffic on the website.
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
To fill the Common application form for B.Des released by IIT Bombay,
- Digital copies of relevant supporting documents, and the signed copy of the completed application form.
- Supporting documents required for the application are digital copies of photograph, signature, UCEED Score Card, qualifying e
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
The qualifying cut-off for UCEED 2026 will be prepared based on the following formulae: 𝜇 + (𝜎⁄2) = 𝛿, where 𝜇 and 𝜎 are the average marks and standard deviation of distribution of marks obtained by all the candidates in Part-A of UCEED 2026.
- 𝜇, 𝜎, and 𝛿 will be rounded-off to two decimal p
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Answered a month ago
UCEED 2026 question paper will have two parts, Part A and Part B. Part B answer booklet will be checked only if a candidate qualifies Part A or meets cut-off. The qualifying cut-off for Part A will be determined by admission committee. It will be used to shortlist candidates for Part A. All candidat
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
Yes, UCEED Cutoff will be round specific. It will be released separately for each round of seat allotment. Candidates who meet cut-off criteria in their categories will be considered for admission to the B. Des programme.
Cut-off for each round will be different for various categories like OPEN, OBC-
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Answered a month ago
The closing rank for IIT Hyderabad was 43. So, if you secure a merit rank of 100 in the UCEED 2026 exam, you chances of admission to the B. Des will be very low. To have a good chance of admission into the institute, you must target a UCEED merit rank within the top 40. However, note that if you bel
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Answered a month ago
Admission cutoff for UCEED 2026 is the minimum marks a candidate needs to secure in their category for admission to B.Des programme.
Candidates who meet cutoff criteria will be considered for admission. If the candidate fails to meet the cutoff, he or she will not be considered for admission. Admissi
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Answered a month ago
If you have biology as a subject in 10+2, then you can apply for B.Des programme at IIITDM Jabalpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad and IIT Indore.
To apply at IIITDM, you need to have Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics/Biology subjects in 10+2.
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Answered a month ago
No, you cannot apply for B.Des programme at IIT Roorkee even if you have cleared the UCEED Entrance Exam because Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics are compulsory subjects in 10+2. But you can apply for B.Des programme at IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad and IIT Indore.
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