Eligibility Criteria for Bachelor of Design (B.Des.)
All candidates applying for the B.Des. must fulfill 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 to apply for admission.
Educational Qualification:
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:
● 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).
● 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 as mentioned on http://www.aicte india.org.
● 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 certificate is required to be submitted at the time of document verification. Visit http://www.aiu.ac.in for more details about how to obtain an equivalence certificate.
Overseas Category (Supernumerary) candidates:
Foreign citizens—candidates holding citizenship of a country other than the Republic of India—only, are eligible to apply under the Overseas (supernumerary) category, provided they fulfill all the eligibility criteria mentioned in Section 4.1.
In addition to the seats available for the B.Des. Programme, an additional 15% supernumerary seats are available for Overseas category candidates. The number of seats available in Overseas (supernumerary) category is as under:
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Programme
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No. of supernumerary seats
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Bachelor of Design, NID Ahmedabad
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19
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Bachelor of Design, NID Madhya Pradesh
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11
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Bachelor of Design, NID Haryana
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11
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Note:
● Candidates under Overseas (supernumerary) category fall outside the ambit of seats reserved for the GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PwD categories.
● Candidates under Overseas (supernumerary) category are required to pay the fees as per the Overseas fees structure.
● Candidates holding OCI and PIO card will have to apply only under the Overseas (supernumerary) category.
● Candidates must possess a valid passport. The candidate must ensure that the passport is current (not expired) at the time of applying online.
● Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) holding an Indian passport are not eligible to apply under the Overseas (supernumerary) category and will have to apply as Indian nationals. ● Candidates will be offered admission to NID based on the final merit list of the Overseas (supernumerary) category, which will be prepared after all the stages of the admission process have been completed. Candidates will be offered admission to NID based on the minimum qualifying criteria as mentioned in Section 8.5.
● To accept the offer of admissions, overseas category candidates are required to produce the following documents along with their self-attested photocopies:
- Self-attested copy of the relevant pages of their valid passport.
- Self-attested copies of their grade sheets/mark sheets of SSC (Grade X) and HSC (Grade XII). Candidates in the process of completing their Grade XII must submit a bonafide certificate from their school or college.
- An equivalence certificate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi, will have to be obtained in advance and required to be submitted at the time of the document scrutiny/in-person counselling, tentatively scheduled in May 2023.
● The candidate will be responsible for obtaining a student visa for the entire duration of the programme at NID, before the commencement of the programme.
● If the selected candidates do not pay their programme fees or fail to produce any of the required documents, or if they decline the offer of admissions, their candidature will stand cancelled and their seat will be offered to the next candidate in the order of merit under Overseas category.
● Seats remaining vacant/unfilled in the Overseas (supernumerary) category will lapse and will not be transferred to candidates from any other categories.
● Overseas candidates will have to appear for DAT Prelims and DAT Mains as per the schedule mentioned in Section 2 of this document.
● Overseas candidates may choose their test centre for DAT Prelims from any of the test centres mentioned in Section 6.3 of this document.
● The medium of instruction at NID is English language.
Important Note:
● Candidates must have passed their Class XII examination (higher secondary (10+2)) or equivalent at the time of online document scrutiny or in-person counseling tentatively scheduled in May 2023.
● Candidates who have not passed their final board exam or equivalent before the Online document scrutiny or in-person counseling tentatively scheduled in May 2023 will not be eligible for admission.
