On campus placements are not very helpful. It's better if you build a strong portfolio according to your line of interest and search for jobs through connections or on your own. Campus placements are fine but you'll get more and better opportunities if you go out there to find jobs or internships in your own.

I wanted to take fashion design but knitwear is the future of fashion and most of the basic curriculum is same for fashion and knitwear. We just deal with knitted fabrics and they explore more variety of fabrics.

In the last semester placement offers come up l. The placements aren't extremely great and only a few get very good packages but the average package is not bad. You can also get a very good placement from your internship and continue working there itself.

My main focus was to get into NIFT. But to keep options, in case I wasn't able to clear NIFT, I had applied for IIAD and UID as well. I am in a general category so I didn't get any quota. To appear for B.des in NIFT, you must pass STD Xll, any stream. The maximum age to apply for this programme is 23. The entrance exam is taken in 3 parts; One day, you'll have CAT (Creative Aptitude Test) and GAT (General Aptitude Test). In CAT there are questions to judge your creativity, you'll have the drawing part here. This paper will be for 3 hours. In GAT you'll have basic Maths, Reasoning, English and General Knowledge. This paper will be for 2 hours. Once you get shortlisted, you'll have to appear in the situation test. You'll get materials here, and you'll have to make a 3D model according to the question, and a write up explaining it. Once you get the final result, you'll get your rank and then will appear for counselling where you can choose the course and campus according to the availability of seats.

NIFT is expensive considering it's a government college. But studying design is probably even more expensive if you go to private colleges. Apart from that, you'll have to spend a lot on stationary throughout the course. NIFT provides different scholarship schemes. You can apply for it if you are eligible and you can get even up to 100% scholarship for the particular year that you applied for.

The curriculum is fine, recently they are trying to incorporate new things related to AI and have been trying to teach things happening in the current industries. The assignments that are given are pretty nice and you have a valid amount of time to ideate and create them. The difficulty is high but it also makes you think and create better creatives so it's a win win

NIFT has centralised campus placement. We can sit for placement in our last year of college. NIFT placement percentage drastically reduced recently, but what you get completely depends on your quality of work. We'll probably get many options since NIFT is a prestigious institute, a large number of companies come there for recruitment. I don't have any plans yet, I'll probably get a job first and then think of how I want to go further.

I was interested in fashion design, but I wasn't getting it in the top 5 centres so I shifted to knitwear Design, both being similar courses. In college, we have one mentor for every 4-5 students. Not all faculties are great but some of them are really nice. And if you have any doubt or confusion, all of them are always ready to help you out. For the first two parts, we have to do the only submission of the given assignments. For the end term, we have a jury where teachers review and roast our work so get real life experience for when we work in the industry. There are too many submissions and mostly you'll get less time to sleep when the jury nears, but at the end of the day, it's worth it.

The demand for design students is increasing day by day. so companies that visit for placements are also increasing. majority of students go for entrepreneurship.

NID conduct an entrance exam every year on national level for admission of students in UG and PG programme. Design Aptitude Test known as NID DAT is a two stages exam with prelims and main. NID DAT prelims for bachelor degree is a written exam. The course curriculum is elaborate. faculties provide vast knowledge in four year programme. NID faculties encourage students in hand driven work.