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The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay will release the number of students who appeared for UCEED 2026 on its official website - uceed.iitb.ac.in. Along with the data about the number of candidates appearing for UCEED 2026, IIT Bombay will also release data about the registered and qualified candidates in UCEED 2026. In this article, get details about the number of candidates in UCEED 2026, including past year trends.
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Candidates will be offered admission into the B.Des programmes of participating IITs and other institutions through the Undergraduate Common Entrance Exam for Design. As per last year's data, a total of 15408 candidates appeared for UCEED 2025, out of which 5703 candidates qualified.
Candidates will be able to check the number of students who will appear for the UCEED exam 2026 on this page soon after the official announcement. As per previous year trends, more than 15000+ students appear for the entrance exam, out of which around 5000 qualify it.
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay has declared the UCEED result on March 6, 2026. Candidates have to visit uceed.iitb.ac.in to download the result of UCEED. The login credentials used to download the UCEED result are application number and password. The UCEED 2026 scorecard will be available from March 10, 2026.
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The tables below provide details about the number of candidates appeared and qualified in the previous years.
A total number of 15408 candidates appeared for UCEED 2025, out of which 5703 candidates have qualified. 3420 are females out of the qualified candidates. In the table below we have added the number of candidates that have appeared for the exam, qualified based on the category.
Category | PwD Status | Registered | Appeared | Qualified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
OPEN | No | 10626 | 9772 | 3215 |
Yes | 56 | 53 | 31 | |
OBC-NCL | No | 3955 | 3743 | 1295 |
Yes | 27 | 26 | 17 | |
EWS | No | 597 | 575 | 235 |
Yes | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
SC | No | 1086 | 1007 | 750 |
Yes | 6 | 6 | 1 | |
ST | No | 246 | 224 | 157 |
Yes | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 16601 | 15408 | 5703 | |
In 2023, the total number of UCEED students who appeared for the entrance exam were 13,549, out of which only 4,836 qualified. Aspirants can below check details on the number of students registered, appeared and qualified for the UCEED entrance exam.
Gender | Registered | Appeared | Qualified |
Male | 5691 | 4970 | 2290 |
Female | 9797 | 8578 | 2546 |
Transgender | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Total | 15, 491 | 13, 549 | 4, 836 |
Category | Registered | Appeared | Qualified |
PwD | 53 | 49 | 31 |
Nationality | Registered | Appeared | Qualified |
Foreign | 46 | 44 | 30 |
As per the UCEED result statistics, the number of aspirants who took and qualified the Undergraduate Common Entrance Exam for Design in 2020 can be checked in the table below.
Particular | Details | |
Number of UCEED test takers | 12,084 | |
Number of students qualified | 2,885 |
The table below provides details about the number of students who appeared in UCEED 2019.
Particular | Details |
Number of UCEED appeared candidates | 12,414 |
Number of students qualified | 2930 |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
As per last year, a total number of 15408 candidates appeared for UCEED 2025, out of which 5703 candidates have qualified.
Yes, candidates have to qualify UCEED exam to get admission to BDes courses at IITs.
UCEED 2026 was held on January 18, 2026.
The difficulty level of UCEED exam is generally moderate.
The UCEED result 2026 has been declared on March 6, 2026.
On Question asked by student community
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With an SC category rank of 92 in UCEED, you may be eligible for admission to some IITs, depending on the cutoff and seat availability during the counselling process. The cutoff varies each year, so you can check the details for the previous year's cutoff here: UCEED Previous Years
Hi! To check the UCEED 2025 opening and closing rank, click on the link provided below.
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UCEED 2025 cutoff
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