Which is better for pursuing a B.Des - the IIT in Bombay or NIFT?

For Fashion Design or Apparel Design, NIFT is the best institute in the country. If you aspire to become a designer or stylist, then choose NIFT. It offers many design specializations such as Fashion, Accessories, Textile, Leather, Knitwear, etc. For Visual Communication and Product Design, IIT Bombay will be better. IITB basically offers Graphic Design, but it has more importance due to the IIT tag.

NIFT Mumbai: Courses, Fees, Admission 2023

National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Mumbai established in the year 1995.It is an institution of design, management and technology for the international fashion brand. The institute located in Mumbai, which is the gateway to Fashion World in the country.

NIFT begins with the online procedure for selected candidates to select their interview slots for M.Des, MFM, and MFT Admission. Visit the official website to select interview slots.

Some of the key points of the NIFT, Mumbai are :

NIFT Mumbai campus started on 19th of April 2006 which was inaugrated by Chief minister of Maharashtra
It was set up under the aegis of aegis of the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India
NIFT Mumbai has attained national repute for its pre-eminent status as an industry oriented state-of-the-art training centre and has reached the pinnacle of academic excellence and thought leadership on different fashion platforms
Since the establishment of NIFT in 1986 there are more than 6000 Alumni, who are working at various levels as Entrepreneurs, Brand Managers, Quality Controllers, Designers, Fashion Coordinators, Merchandisers, Production Managers, Marketing Heads. etc. in leading national and international organizations. Some of the alumni have become successful brands themselves
The college aims at releasing mass of highly competent technical professionals in the area of Fashion Design, Technology and Management capable of providing leadership to the Indian Fashion industry, to enable it to compete better in the global economy.

Check: NIFT Mumbai Admission 2024

NIFT Mumbai Important Dates

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Online Registration for all modes of Admission (UG & PG)	to be notified
Last date for Online Registration for UG/PG Programme (UG & PG)	to be notified
Registration for seat Allocation	to be notified
Seat Allocation Round 1	to be notified
Seat Allocation Round 2	to be notified
Seat Allocation Round 3	to be notified
Seat Allocation Round 4	to be notified
Seat Allocation Round 5	to be notified
Seat Allocation Round 6	to be notified

NIFT Mumbai Location

By Air -The campus is 45 kms from Mumbai airport and it takes around 1 ½ hour by road to reach NIFT-Mumbai from Mumbai airport.
By Rail - :

Destination	Distance	Time
Kharghar	½ Km	5 minutes walking
Panvel	12 Kms	15 minutes by train
Lokmanya Tilak terminus	25 Kms	40 minutes by train
Bandra Terminus	35 Kms	1 Hour by train
Mumbai Central Station	45 Kms	1 Hour 15 Minutes by train

NIFT Mumbai Placement -

The college has placement in reputed companies like large retailers, brand marketers, manufacturers, consultancy organizations, e-retailer, textile mills, home furnishing companies, design BPO's, technology solution providers, and large apparel manufacturing companies along with international brands etc enable students to start their careers in challenging positions.

NIFT Placements Salary Range in Lakhs per annum

	NIFT Placement 2012	NIFT Placement 2013
Master’s Programme	Rs. 1.8 to Rs. 5.0	Rs. 1.69 to Rs.15.00
Bachelor’s Programme	Rs. 1.4 to Rs. 5.0	Rs 1.44 to Rs 9.00

NIFT Mumbai Facilities

Design Studios	It is a work place for designing and developing new products on campus consist of modern labs.
High Quality Lecture Rooms	Class rooms are equiped with good facilities and also projectors for displaying presentations.
IT Savy Education	The college has computers centre with latest technology.
Transportation	There is bus facility of 35 seats For field trips, industry visits, etc.
Canteen/Mess	A canteen / mess on the campus provide food to all the students. On payment of semester’s mess fees, students are provided breakfast, lunch, and dinner on all the days – including holidays.
Fitness Center	Newly created Fitness centre is made open for students at the minimum fees. Students can use the gym in batches separate for girls and boys.

NIFT Mumbai Resource Centre -

NIFT facilitate resource centre contain vital fashion information of the Institute and the Apparel Industry of the region. NIFT Resource center act as catalyst, both for the academicians and the practicing fashion professionals in the industry . Resource center of NIFT, Mumbai classified in to two wings :

Library Wing

Library of NIFT contains print and non-print information. There are

9000 volumes of books
2700 slides
400 electronic databases
100 project reports
58 craft documents,
280 video cassettes
78 foreign journals and equal number of Indian periodicals

Library is subscribed to following e-resource

Ebsco
Database
WGSN
Just-Style
ProQuest

There are following services

Indexing and Abstracting
Current awareness
Bibliographic Services
Reprographic Services
Scanning
e-journal browsing
Fashion Forecast Services

Material Wing

It contains all information which are used by academician and the industry as well. There are following products

Labels
Regional Textiles
Regional Costumes
Trend fabrics
Elastics
Printing
Embroideries
Linings and Interlinings

Services

Circulation of material products for academic use
References to product collection
Referral services against demand
Orientation for effective use
Forecast Color Services

NIFT Mumbai Ranking

The college has been ranked 2 by the Education World C-fore survey 2013
The college has been ranked 5 by the India Today survey 2013

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NIFT PG Admit Card 2023 Out for Personal Interview

New Delhi: National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has released the NIFT PG 2023 Admit Card for an online personal interview. Candidates who are preparing for the interview round can check and download their admit card from the official website at niftadmissions.in. As per N

NIFT 2023 Result Out Check How To Download

New Delhi: The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has announced the results for NIFT 2023 entrance exam on March 10, 2023. Using the official website, nifta.ac.in, applicants can view the NIFT 2023 result. The NIFT 2023 entrance exam was conducted on February 5, 2023 and February

NIFT GAT 2023 to be Held Again for Candidates Who Faced Issue at Exam Center

New Delhi: National Institute of Fashion Technology has declared that it will conduct the NIFT GAT 2023 Exam again for students who had faced difficulties in the exam centres at MBC Thane-Mumbai, Vidhan Public School- Ghaziabad, MP English school - Varanasi and P T Salagram - Noida.

NIFT 2023 NIFT Daman to Participate Seat Intake Increased

New Delhi: Through the NIFT 2023 entrance exam, the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) will offer a total of 5,199 seats. 4,324 All-India, 405 state domicile, and 470 NRI category seats are included in this. There were 5,023 seats available for the NIFT entrance exam's previ