NID Bangalore Admission 2024: NID DAT Application (Open), Courses, Fees, Eligibility, Cutoff

Bangalore, Karnataka

Private (Autonomous) College

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Established in 2006, National Institute of Design, Bengaluru offers 5 courses under the Master's degree. In line with the fact that it’s the R&D wing of the prestigious NID, the courses include digital designing, interactive designing, etc.

The admission process involves an entrance exam followed by a studio test, and an interview.
One can apply online via the official website of NID Bangalore.
The applications are available on the website from the month of October.

NID offers centralised placement opportunities for its campuses in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Bangalore. According to the Times of India, the highest package offered to NID students was 72 lacs per annum. Tanishq, Tata, Adobe, Myntra, EBay are some of the prominent names of the companies that hire from NID.

NID Bangalore Important Dates

Events	Dates
NID DAT 2023 Application form filling starts	October 22, 2022
Last date to submit NID DAT 2023 application form	December 22, 2022
Submission of NID DAT 2023 application form with late fee	December 16, 2022- December 22, 2022
NID DAT 2023 Application Form Correction Window	December 25, 2022 – December 27, 2022
Admit card release for NID DAT Prelims 2023	January 02, 2023
NID DAT 2023 Prelims Date	January 08, 2023
NID DAT 2023 Result Date	For B.Des- March 30, 2023 For M.Des- February 28, 2023
NID DAT 2023 Prelims Re-checking Request	For B.Des- March 31, 2023- April 01, 2023 For M.Des- February 28, 2023- March 02, 2023
NID DAT 2023 Main Admit Card	For B.Des- April 15, 2023 For M.Des- March 9, 2023
NID DAT 2023 Mains Date	For B.Des- April 29, 2023- April 30, 2023 For M.Des- March 20, 2023- March 23, 2023
NID DAT 2023 Mains Result Declaration	For B.Des- May 18, 2023 For M.Des- May 16, 2023
NID DAT 2023 Window for submission of campus preference	May 18, 2023- May 19, 2023
NID DAT 2023 Mains Re-checking Request	For B.Des- May 18, 2023- May 19, 2023 For M.Des- May 16, 2023- May 17, 2023
NID DAT 2023 Payment of Fees and Uploading of Documents	For B.Des- May 25, 2023- May 26, 2023 For M.Des- May 16, 2023- May 19, 2023
NID DAT 2023 Provisional Offer Letter	1^st week of June, 2023

NID Bangalore M.Des. Admission 2023

NID Bengaluru offers 5 courses under the Master's degree. Aspiring students require a bachelor's degree or a full-time diploma in Design/Fine Arts/Applied Arts/ Architecture to apply for admissions.

Students are admitted via an entrance exam followed by a studio test, and an interview.

Duration	2.5 Years
Specializations	5
Type	Full time
Basic Eligibility Criteria	Bachelor’s Degree or full-time diploma
Basic Admission Criteria	DAT Prelims and DAT Mains

Specializations offered by the Institute are:

Design for Retail Experience
Digital Game Design
Information Design
Interaction Design
Universal Design

Eligibility Criteria

The eligibility criteria of NID Bengaluru rests on your educational qualifications, age and your entrance exam alongwith the studio test. However, the eligibility criteria varies slightly for the different categories.

(i) Age Limit:

Indian Nationals	Foreign Nationals
General	Born on or after 1 July 1990
General EWS	born on or after 1 July 1990
Reserved Category	born on or after 1 July 1987
Person with Disabilities (PwD)	born on or after 1 July 1985

(ii) Educational Qualifications

To satisfy the second requirement, one must possess either,

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.
Bachelor degree of minimum 3-year duration in any specialization, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard, from any university or institute recognised by law in India.
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.

Notably, candidates, in the final year, whose universities may not have issued the final degree certificate by the date of application to NID, are eligible to apply, subject to passing all subjects without any backlog.

Selection Criteria

In order to be considered for admission, a candidate needs to have appeared in both DAT Prelims and DAT Mains.

DAT Prelims and DAT Mains

A merit list is prepared in accordance with the results of DAT Prelims for each category. Based on that merit list, candidates are called for DAT Mains. DAT Mains includes a studio test+Interview.
Thereafter, based on the results of DAT Mains, a number of candidates are shortlisted for each discipline offered by NID Bengaluru. Based on the sum total of the weighted scores obtained by the candidate in each stage of the admission process, namely the DAT Prelims and DAT Mains, the final merit list is prepared.
The final merit list has category-wise generation of candidates for each of the disciplines. Finally, a Common merit list will be generated based on the percentile score.

NID Bengaluru Application Process 2023

The Application process is just like any other entrance exam you apply for. Visit the official admissions website at http://admissions.nid.edu and follow the listed steps:

Download the M.Des. Admission Handbook and go through it thoroughly.
The candidate needs to register/sign up online before proceeding to fill the application form.
After logging in successfully, they need to fill up their personal and educational details.
The candidate needs to upload his/her signatures and documents
Pay the Application Fee as per the Category you belong to either through online mode or a demand draft.

The documents required at the time of counselling are:

Passport Sized Photograph (minimum 60 KB and maximum 100 KB in size)
Scanned Copy of the Signature (Maximum 100 KB in size)
Category Certificates (JPG/JPEG format and not exceed 150 KB in size)
A valid e-mail ID

Seat Allocation & Reservations

The seat reservation at NID Bengaluru is based on the official guidelines of the government on the matter. Accordingly, NID Bengaluru has seat reservations in the following manner:

Category-wise reservation of seats
GEN-EWS (10%)	OBC-NCL (27%)	Scheduled Caste (15%)	Scheduled Tribe (7.5%)
2	5	3	1

Notably, 5% of all the seats from the categories are reserved for the Persons with Disability (PwD).
Of the seats available for the M.Des., 15% supernumerary seats are available for Overseas candidates.
Further, foreign nationals applying under the Overseas category are outside the ambit of reservation of seats.

FAQs

Ques. Does NID Bengaluru provide scholarships?

Ans. NID, Ford Foundation and Government of India Scholarships offers scholarships to needy, meritorious students. Students can apply by post. One needs to look out for alerts.

Ques. How is the Faculty of NID Bengaluru?

Ans. The faculty at NID Bengaluru is highly qualified and have expertise in their discipline. To read more about the faculty click here.

Ques. Is NID Bengaluru expensive?

Ans. No, NID is a very genuine college in terms of fees. Master at NID costs INR 1.79 Lakhs which is almost equal to all other colleges that offer M.Des courses.

Ques. In what all areas can students pursue their career after doing M.Des?

Ans. The students get placement opportunities in areas such as social communication, service sectors, technology enhanced learning, Craft Design, Green Design, Universal Design, and Experiential Design.

Ques. Does NID Bengaluru provide a course in B. Des?

Ans. No, at present NID Bengaluru offers only 5 PG courses in M.Des. It does not offer any UG course. The UG courses are being offered in the other 2 campuses of NID.