The National Institute of Fashion Technology offers on-campus placement for its students during the latter part of the last semester, depending upon the course. I graduated during the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020, thus campus placements couldn't be held. However, our NIFT did provide us with online placement opportunities via email. Fashion Design student often goes for the highest package and as far as I can remember, the highest package was Rs 24,0000 lakh per annum, and the average package was around Rs 600,000 lakhs for the whole college.
The Fashion Communication Course at NIFT Delhi was quite comprehensive in terms of providing students with opportunities for different skill developments. Most of the curriculum was practical, requiring creative skills as well as practical skills. Overall, the FC course offered us the opportunity to develop skills such as photography, graphic design, visual merchandising, writing, etc. Exams were mainly held every six months.
When you are in year 3(internships or placements both) or 4(placement) then you're eligible to work in industry. Accessory design is the best department in our campus (gandhinagar) and thus highly reputated companies hire them. So there's a kind of series that is followed that companies first gives preference to DELHI and MUMBAI and then other campuses. As far as my department (fashion communication) is concerned they're mostly given opportunities in retail companies for example- a VISUAL MERCHANDISER in WESTSIDE. Last year GANDHINAGAR was number one in placements with a package of 9,00,000/- Marks or CGPAs matters at the end but a good portfolio matters alot in designing college. Right now I have just completed first year so I have this much information only regarding placements. My plans would be ofcourse to sit for placements and get hired in a good comapny. After getting enough money for my masters I shall go abroad for masters as it builds a good portfolio and even more better job
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.