IIAD Admissions 2026
Last Date to Apply – 23rd January | Exam Dates – 31st Jan (online), 1st Feb (Online & Offline) | Leading Design College | Highest CTC: ₹12 LPA | Average CTC: ₹7.5 LPA | Scholarships for Deserving Students
Design operates with a dual purpose: It ‘serves’ by enriching human life through practical solutions and leads’ by challenging norms and inspiring a better future. Traditionally, Interaction Design (IxD) education emphasised service, but today’s complex challenges demand a shift. Designers now face multifaceted issues requiring them to engage diverse stakeholders, understand varied needs and synthesise cohesive solutions. This necessitates skills beyond traditional UX/UI, demanding designers who can navigate complexity.
In ‘Living with Complexity,’ Don Norman argues that complexity reflects the interconnectedness of systems. Embracing this requires a shift in learning, fostering curiosity and inquiry into underlying reasons. Anant National University’s Interaction Design programme adopts a forward-thinking approach, moving beyond linear thinking and emphasising critical elements. The curriculum at Anant National University integrates emerging technologies and nuanced IxD understanding.
Key courses include:
This dynamic learning environment fosters agility, cross-disciplinary collaboration, experimentation and the development of an individual voice. Anant’s Interaction Design programme also emphasises:
These fundamentals are crucial for adapting to evolving markets and leading towards a better future.
The programme’s focus on diverse skills and complexity prepares graduates for future-oriented careers, including:
Last Date to Apply – 23rd January | Exam Dates – 31st Jan (online), 1st Feb (Online & Offline) | Leading Design College | Highest CTC: ₹12 LPA | Average CTC: ₹7.5 LPA | Scholarships for Deserving Students
Tie-ups with over 100 international Universities in USA, UK, France and Australia. Wide Range of scholarships available.
These roles, alongside traditional paths like UX/UI Designer, Service Designer and Design Researcher, demonstrate Interaction Design’s expanding influence.
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Anant National University, India’s first DesignX university, is dedicated to training students to devise solutions for global problems. The X in Design X is the symbol drawn from mathematics, representing enhancement. This new learning approach multiplies traditional design pedagogy with liberal arts disciplines, emerging technologies and knowledge drawn from hands-on community experiences to help understand our world better and to devise impactful solutions.
Our multidisciplinary undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in design, architecture, climate action, and visual arts harness knowledge from various disciplines and traditional practices to integrate it with cutting-edge technology to address diverse challenges. We train our designers to become solutionaries — revolutionary thinkers with a solution-oriented mindset.
Anant National University has been awarded the prestigious ‘5-Star Rating’ in the category of Architecture and a ‘4-Star Rating’ in the University category in the Gujarat State Institutional Rating Framework (GSIRF) 2023-24. This recognition reinforces our commitment to creating a world-class institution of great eminence and excellence.
Disclaimer: This article has been published as a collaboration between Careers360 and Anant National University.
On Question asked by student community
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anant national university has established on 2016, It was established in 2016 by the Laxman Gyanpith Trust through The Gujarat Private Universities Act, 2016. however based on location wise placement statistics anant national university gujrat branch has highest placement record. based on placement statistics of sector wise, design area
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Ranked #45 amongst Universities in India by NIRF | Ranked #1 in Academic Reputation in India by QS World University Rankings
Outstanding Track Record in Placements.
Ranked 2nd in the IIRF 2023 Design School Ranking | Approved by AICTE | Highest CTC 13 LPA | Application Deadline: 20th Jan'26