I am a knitwear designer, graduated from Nift Mumbai. I'm consider myself really lucky to have been a part of this college. The course is well structured and grooms the students well enough for the industrial demands. During the course, there were multiple industrial visits which is really helpful after the college. The curriculum is more practical than theoretical. There are campus placements but I think let's not take that into account because most of the students do not be a part of it. They usually get pre-placement during their internships of graduation projects.
They start with very beginner thing so you get to learn right form the start. The connection in between is very understanding. There's nothing as such to improve everything is being set properly according to the industry. They also prepares you for the real world by giving some collaborative class room projects. The exams are being taken in 3 parts midterms, end terms and final juries. The duration between them is fair as well.
I Mean Yeah You cannot be introverted person in here , the college makes you a extrovert they teach us that to communicate with each other and breaking the ice it's good only but I don't about the introverted ones
I chose the course to see how management in the fashion industry works to understand the process, but nothing is really taught in the class, the assignments given are not related to what they teach.The classes are usually half n hour to an hour making students waste their energy.As a top institute in the country, they have no collabrations with the big fashion weeks or any event.The assignements go through the entire semester and overall completing it till the jury.Students usually re-appear for the exam due to attendace shortage since they have a really bad attedance policy where a student misses for a day and he/she missed 4 classes in a go.
My course is FASHION COMMUNICATION which is basically all about UI/UX design, Graphic designing etc. Since childhood I've been a tech savvy kind of person. I like to explore different applications and thus this course allows me to work on application like FIGMA, ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR, PHOTOSHOP, etc. So nift has jury every semester and whatever work we've done so far is presented there. The panel doesn't judge us on their level rather on industry or company levels. We're taught from day one that you are not working for faculty rather consider us clients and work according to our needs. The semester consists of mid term, end term and jury assignments and i think the difficulty level varies from person to person. For me, it gets a little hectic during jury as it is the last chance for us to present something out of the box product and for that it needs high level of thinking and exploration and completing that within the given deadline becomes a task.
The course in my opinion is very relevant as well as comprehensive. It has an overarching theme of steady improvement and no matter what department you are in it is easy to find your niche and work your way up from there.
To be honest i think my course is pretty relevant and will remain relevant for the years to come as man will never stop wearing clothes. Textile design plays a huge role in the fashion industry and will continue to do so in the future. As for the curriculum at my college it does teach me the traditional as well as the modern methods and approaches to design. Design education in india is not yet a very maintstream or well known thing but i think institutions like NIFT and NID are doing justice to it. My faculty is very strict and expect a certain level of work which if not delivered you will face the repercussions for. As for the final marking which is the jury assignment it is like doomsday for every student in my college. It is quite difficult and challenging as well as pretty time taking. All I'd say is that it's not for the weak hearted