Good Design Colleges Besides NID & NIFT: Admission 2025, Courses & More Updates

Getting admission into the NIDs and NIFTs is tough because they have very limited seats and a large number of candidates apply for admission. Here we bring you a number of good options beyond the NIDs and NIFTs where you can try your luck.

Good Design Colleges besides NID & NIFT

We all certainly want the best for ourselves in whatever we aim for...and why not? If we have it in us and work hard enough, we deserve it! However, the fact of the matter is that even though we desire and deserve to secure admissions at a good college, sometimes we may not be able to achieve it because there is a third ‘D’ that plays an equally important role, if not bigger, in shaping our lives – Destiny! Indeed, sometimes certain things may just not be destined for us. A major reason why it is so difficult to get admission to the NIDs and NIFTs is that they have very limited seats, especially if we speaking of the top institutes like NIFT Delhi and NIFT Ahmedabad. So, it is not a bad idea to look beyond the NIFTs and NIDs. After all, many private colleges have come up in recent years that offer good education.

Latest News:

• NID DAT Admit Card 2025 OUT; Check important details here

About  NID DAT and NIFT

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct the NIFT 2025 exam on February 9, 2025.

The exam will include the CAT and GAT written exams.

Candidates applying for the B.Des course and the M.Des course need to take both the CAT and GAT, whereas B.F.Tech, M.F.Tech, and M.F.M candidates need to take only the GAT.

Meanwhile, the National Institute of Design (NID) will conduct the NID DAT 2025 (Prelims) exam on January 5, 2025.

The admit cards for the exam NID DAT Prelims can be downloaded from December 24, 2024.

While my prayers and best wishes are for all of you to make it through NIFT. Let us plan our course of action if you are not able to make it to the list of students selected for admissions at NID and NIFT.

Some equally good design colleges of repute in the industry are as given below:

• Footwear Design Development Institute (FDDI)
• Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology (NIIFT)
• Indian Institute of Craft Design (IICD)
• Pearl Academy
• MIT Institute of Design (MITID)
• Symbiosis Institute of Design (SID)
• JD Institute of Fashion Technology
• School Of Fashion Technology (SOFT)

Design Admission 2025 for Top Entrance Exams

 All the above mentioned colleges conduct a similar entrance process as that in NIFT, hence if you have prepared for NIFT & NID, you will be able to write all the above mentioned entrances just by continued practice. I would also like to mention here, that irrespective of NIFT/ NID written results, you must all prepare for the second stages of Situation test & Personal Interview as you will be requiring this skill-set for all other entrances as well.

About the Author:

Shipra Anand is the Founder Director of Academy for Fashion Careers in Lucknow