What is the eligibility criteria for NID's bachelor's programme?

Hello and welcome to the blog where we’ll be talking about what you need to have to get into the National Institute of Design (NID). Yep, you heard that right, we’ll be talking about the eligibility criteria.

If you are looking to get in and need a bit of help looking around for information that is usually stuck in nooks and crannies and is so hard to yank out, then don’t worry. Sit back and pop some popcorn! We got your back!

The National Institute of Design (NID) conducts entrance exams once a year for both the masters and bachelor’s programmes. But before going for the entrance test you need fill a whole ton of forms and submit a million documents. And here is all that listed down for you!

Age Limit

All these dates are according to admission year 2023-24 and the dates will change year to year. But this is the general idea.

(i) 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. 

(ii) 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 2000 are eligible to apply for admission. 

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

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

Educational Qualification

Again, everything mentioned is for the academic year 2023-24 and will change year to year, but the general idea remains the same.

Applications for academic year 2023-24 are open to candidates who have passed or will appear for higher secondary (10+2) qualifying examinations in the academic year 2022–23 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: 

(i) Final examination of the 10+2 system under a Central or State Board recognized by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU, Refer http://www.aiu.ac.in). 

(ii) Intermediate or two-year pre-University examination under a Board or University recognized by the Association of Indian Universities. 

(iii) Final examination of the two-year course of the Joint Services Wing of the National Defence Academy. 

(iv) Senior Secondary School examination under the National Institute of Open Schooling, with a minimum of five subjects. 

(v) 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. 

(vi) H.S.C. vocational examination. 

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

(viii) AICTE-approved three-year Full time Diploma after Class X offered by Board of Technical Education of any state in India or Union Territories as mentioned on http://www.aicteindia.org.

That was all about the age limit and educational qualifications that are the first step of your eligibility, after this you need to crack the exam!

All the information above is from the NID official handbook pdfs 2023 and is subject to change year by year. For more information, please visit the NID official website at; https://admissions.nid.edu/NIDA2023/Default.aspx

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Parinita Manchanda

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