The two-and-a-half year long Master of Design (M.Des.) programme at NID is offered at its campus in Gandhinagar [ 19 seats only ].

All candidates applying for the M.Des. programme (any discipline) must fulfill eligibility criteria of both age and education qualification.

Age Limit:

For Indian Nationals in General Category & General EWS Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1990 are eligible to apply for admission.

For Indian Nationals in Reserved Category (Other Backward Class-Non Creamy Layer (OBCNCL), Scheduled Caste (SC) & Scheduled Tribe (ST): Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1987 are eligible to apply for admission.

For Indian Nationals in Person with Disabilities (PwD) Reserved Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1985 are eligible to apply for admission.

For Foreign Nationals in Overseas (Supernumerary) Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1990 are eligible to apply for admission.

Educational Qualification: In addition to satisfying the above age criteria, the candidate must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications to be considered eligible for admissions:

Bachelor Degree of minimum 4-year duration in any specialization, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard from any university or institute recognised by law in India. Condition: Candidate must have passed the Bachelor Degree examinations at the time of document verification tentatively scheduled in April/May 2020.             OR

Bachelor Degree of minimum 3-year duration in any specialization, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard. Condition: Candidates must have passed the Bachelor Degree examinations before June 2019.      OR

Full-time Diploma of minimum 4-year duration in Design/Fine Arts/Applied Arts/ Architecture, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard, from any university or institute recognised by law in India. Condition: Candidates must have passed the Diploma examinations at the time of document verification tentatively scheduled in April/May 2020.

Interested candidates are required to appear in DAT Prelims comprising of the CDAT [Common Design Aptitude Test] and discipline-specific test of the discipline selected by them. The total duration of DAT Prelim will be 2.5 hrs.

For further information click here (http://admissions.nid.edu/NIDA2020/download/MDes_AdmissionsHandbook2020-21.pdf) .