NID Eligibility Criteria

NID Candidates have to meet all the prerequisites set by the National Institute of Design (NID) to apply for the courses offered at NID Ahmedabad, NID Vijayawada and NID Kurukshetra.

National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad has released the NID DAT 2024 Eligibility Criteria at admissions.nid.edu. Candidates who are seeking admissions at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad must check all the eligibility criteria before apply for the NID DAT 2024. Candidates are advised to go the official website - admissions.nid.edu & fulfill the application form of NID DAT 2024.

National Institute of Design (NID) has released the eligibility criteria for the B.Des and M.Des Programs. Candidates who are interested can check the eligibility criteria and fill the NID DAT 2024 Application form.

For Bachelor of Design (B.Des) & Graduate Diploma Programme in Design (GDPD) programmes 

All the candidates applying for the B.Des. must fulfil the eligibility criteria of both age and education qualification as under :

AGE LIMIT :

For Indian Nationals in General Category and General EWS Category : Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 2003 are eligible to apply for admission.

For Indian Nationals in Reserved Category (Other Backward Class-Non Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL), Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST): Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 2000 are eligible to apply for admission.

For Indian Nationals in PwD Reserved Category : Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1998 are eligible to apply for admission.

For Foreign Nationals in Overseas (Supernumerary) Category : Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 2003 are eligible for admission.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION :

Applications for academic year 2022-23 are open to candidates who have passed or will appear for higher secondary (10+2) qualfying examinations in the academic year 2023-24 in any stream (Science, Arts, Commerce, Humanities etc.) from any recognized board of education such as CBSE, IB, ICSE or equivalent.

Examinations considered equivalent to these are as follows :

Final Examination of the 10+2 system under a Central or State Board recognized by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) - www.aiu.ac.in

Intermediate or two year Pre University Examination under a Board or University recognized by the Association of Indian Universities.

Final examination of the two year Course of the Joint Services Wing of the National Defence Academy.

Senior Secondary School Examination under the National Institute of Open Schooling, with a minimum of five subjects.

Any public school, Board or University examination completed in India or in any foreign country recognized as equivalent to the 10+2 system by the Association of Indian Universities.

H.S.C. Vocational Examination.

General Certificate Education (GCE) Examination at the Advanced (A) level taken in London, Cambridge or Sri Lanka.

AICTE-Approved three-year Full time Diploma after Class X offered by Board of Technical Education of any state in India or Union Territories.

Candidates who have completed final examinations for Class XII (Or equivalent) outside India or from a Board not specified above should produce an equivalence certificate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) confirming that the examination they have passed is equivalent to the Class XII Examination conducted in India. This certification is required to be submitted at the time of document verification.

For Master of Design (M.Des

All the candidates applying for the M.Des. Programme (Any discipline) must fulfil the eligibility criteria of both age and education qualification as under :

AGE LIMIT :

For Indian Nationals in General Category and General EWS Category : Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1992 are eligible to apply for admission.

For Indian Nationals in Reserved Category (Other Backward Class-Non Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL), Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST): Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1989 are eligible to apply for admission.

For Indian Nationals in PwD Reserved Category : Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1987 are eligible to apply for admission.

For Foreign Nationals in Overseas (Supernumerary) Category : Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1992 are eligible 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 recognized by law in India. Condition : Candidate must have appeared for all the subjects and backlogs (if any), of the Bachelor Degree Examination by 30 June, 2024. 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 recognized by law in India.

Condition : Candidate must have appeared for all the subjects and backlogs (if any), of the Bachelor Degree Examination by 30 June, 2024. OR

Bachelor Degree of minimum 3 year duration in any specialization, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard.

Condition : Candidate must have passed the 3 year Bachelor Degree examinations by August 2023.

* Candidates in the final year of their Bachelor Degree / Full time Diploma Programme whose universities may not have issued the final degree certificate before that last date of application to NID, are eligible to apply, subject to passing all subjects without any backlog. Such candidates will have to submit/produce Provisional Degree Certificates at the time of document verification.

NOTE : In case the degree/certificate has been obtained from a university/Board of any country other than India, an equivalence certificate must be submitted to Admissions Office by the candidate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi.

at the time of physical vertification of documents tentatively scheduled in 30 June, 2024.