Fashion design means exactly as the name suggests. Fashion design is designing something that makes the person wearing it fashionable. Creating anything new that evolves humans through clothes or accessories is fashion design. It is the art of application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Students who seek admissions in esteemed fashion and design colleges such as National Institute of Design, National Institute of Fashion Designing and other such institutes should know about the entrance exams available for the same in India.
Given below is a list of design entrance exams in India:
Name of Exam |
Application Forms |
Test Date |
Result Date |
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All India Entrance Examination for Design (AIEED) |
1st December 2015 |
Online- 15th Dec to 29th Dec, 2015 Center based- 31st Jan, 2016 |
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Army Institute of Fashion Design (AIFD) |
March, 2016 |
UG: April, 2016 PG: June, 2016 |
May, 2016 |
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Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED) |
10th August, 2015 |
6th December, 2015 16th February, 2016 |
19th March,2015 |
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Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI) |
Mid May, 2016 |
June, 2016 |
July, 2016 |
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GD Goenka Design Aptitude Test (DAT) |
31st January, 2016 |
7th February, 2016 |
22nd February, 2016 |
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Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD) |
12th October, 2015 |
May 2016 |
June- July 2016 |
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Indian Institute of Crafts and Design (IICD) |
23rd December, 2015 |
29th May, 2016 |
31st May, 2016 |
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Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (IIT UCEED) |
17th October, 2015 |
17th January, 2016 |
28th February, 2016 |
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MIT Institute of Design Entrance Exam |
Cycle 1- 31st January, 2016 Cycle 2- 31st May, 2016 |
Cycle 1- 3rd April, 2016 Cycle 2- 6th June, 2016 |
18th April, 2016 |
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NIFT Entrance Exam |
10th Jan, 2016 |
14th February, 2016 |
End of May/June, 2016 |
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NIFT Mohali Entrance Exam |
24th December, 2015 |
17th February, 2016 |
15th March, 2016 |
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NID Graduate Diploma Programme in Design (GDPD) |
27th November 2015 |
10th January, 2016 |
22nd February, 2016 |
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NID Post Graduate Diploma Programme in Design (PGDPD) |
27th November 2015 |
10th January, 2016 |
5th February, 2016 |
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Pearl Academy of Fashion (PAF) Combined General Proficiency Test (GPT) and Design Aptitude Test (DAT) |
20th November, 2016 |
16th January, 2016 |
1st February, 2016 |
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School of Fashion Technology (SOFT) Pune |
1st December, 2015 |
First week of May |
UG- 10th June, 2016 PG- 16th June, 2016 |
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Shrishti Entrance and Aptitude Test |
UG- 2nd April, 2016 PG- 15th January, 2016 |
UG- 17th April, 2016 PG- 24th January, 2016 |
UG- 11th May, 2016 PG- 24th March, 2016 |
Good Luck!
