National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

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.