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    Salary After NID: Check Past Years NID Highest and Lowest Salary, Job Roles, & Top Recruiters

    Salary After NID: Check Past Years NID Highest and Lowest Salary, Job Roles, & Top Recruiters

    Tekumalla AvinashramUpdated on 08 Aug 2026, 04:22 PM IST

    The salary after NID 2027 is expected to be attractive, as evidenced by past trends. Candidates appearing for NID DAT 2027 would want to know about the salary after NID to evaluate future opportunities. As per the latest available data, for NID campuses at Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, and Gandhinagar, the highest salary for NID was around Rs 40 LPA. The lowest salary for NID was Rs 4 LPA. The NID campuses are counted among the top design colleges in India. As per NID placement, the top companies recruiting from NID include Asian Paints, Titan, Havells, Samsung India Electronics, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, and more. The NID campuses conduct their admission through the NID DAT entrance exam - one of the top design entrance exams in the country.

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    1. Salary After NID: Past Years Analysis
    2. NID Courses and Job Roles
    3. Salary after NID: Top Recruiters
    Salary After NID: Check Past Years NID Highest and Lowest Salary, Job Roles, & Top Recruiters
    Salary After NID

    However, it also depends on the experience, location, and job role. There are various job opportunities after NID, such as Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer, Product Designer, Fashion Designer, Interior Designer, and more. Read the complete article to gain insights into salary after NID.

    Salary After NID: Past Years Analysis

    The National Institute of Design offers a centralised placement to its students. The salary after NID depends on multiple factors such as job role, company, experience, and portfolio of the student. The students can understand the salary of NID if we analyse the salary offered to the students in previous years.

    Highest & Lowest NID Salary

    Year

    Highest NID Salary

    Lowest NID Salary

    2025Rs. 40 LPA5 LPA
    2024Rs 36 LPARs 3 LPA

    2023

    Rs. 40 LPA

    Rs. 4 LPA

    2022

    Rs. 46 LPA

    Rs. 4.8 LPA

    2021

    Rs. 36 LPA

    Rs. 4 LPA

    2020

    Rs. 50 LPA

    -

    2019

    Rs. 38 LPA

    -

    NID Courses and Job Roles

    NID courses include undergraduate and postgraduate design programmes. NID courses are offered broadly in design specialisations such as communication design, industrial design, textile apparel, and lifestyle accessory design. The career opportunities after NID are available in a variety of industries such as animation and film, graphic design, glass & ceramics, furniture, textiles, electronics, and more.

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    Salary after NID: Top Recruiters

    There is no official information about the total number of recruiters hosted during the NID placements. As per the previous year's data, around 200 companies from the areas of electronics, home appliances, medical device/healthcare, FMCG, textile and craft sectors, apparel & lifestyle, lifestyle retail, IT Design, Experience Design, Virtual Reality, Research, E-commerce, transportation & automotive sector, furniture, interior & lifestyle accessory sectors, space & events, fintech, education sector, film & media sector, animation industry and several others have been part of the NID placements.

    Top Recruiters in NID Placement

    • Bajaj Finserv Health Ltd
    • CURA Home
    • Asian Paints
    • Havells India
    • Titan
    • Forbes Marshall Pvt Ltd
    • Space Matrix Design Consultants
    • Trident
    • Giga Fun Studios
    • Samsung Electronics
    • Adobe
    • Amazon
    • Zomato
    • Royal Enfield
    • IBM
    • SABIC
    • Hindustan Unilever Ltd
    • Focus Lighting & Fixture
    • Nalli Silk Sarees Pvt. Ltd.
    • Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals

    Activities by NID’s Placement Office

    • The department provides opportunities for students’ project-based learning, such as graduation projects, industrial training, classroom projects, live projects, and workshops.
    • NID organises industry interface bi-annually. This event also creates awareness among the industries/ firms/studios/NGOs/Govt. Sector/MSMEs about NID and its various modes of operation.
    • NID hosts more than 200 companies during the Industry Interface.
    • Encouraging start-up culture by guiding the students to be involved in incubator/start-up projects.
    • Managing the students' online portfolios for the graduating batch and the graduation project semester students, and guiding students to build their portfolios.
    • Coordinating industry visits and meetings with concerned HODs/coordinators and promoting Industry presence in NID through lectures/ presentations and interactions/crosstalks for the students throughout the year.
    • Facilitating the query of both students and industry.
    • Facilitating lateral placements.
    • Coordinating the announcement of competitions.
    • Scholarships/events /workshop announcements received by sponsors.
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    Hello Dear Student,

    Could you provide more information so that i could help you further

    No specific stream is required in Class 11 for BDes admissions. You can join B.Des (Bachelor of Design) with any stream in Class 11th (Science, Commerce, or Arts/Humanities). Top design institutes like NID ( NID DAT scores) and NIFT ( NIFT Entrance Exam ), as well as IITs (via UCEED),

    Hello,

    Yes, if you are in Class 12, you are eligible to sit for the NID DAT 2026 (BDes) exam. The National Institute of Design allows students who are in their final year of Class 12 or have already passed to apply.

    To know more access below mentioned link:

    https://design.careers360.com/articles/nid-admission-2026

    You can get the NIT DAT SYLLABUS, updated version from careers 360 in detail from careers 360 article. Follow the link given from The link of the syllabus article is given below from careers 360

    https://design.careers360.com/articles/nid-dat-syllabus-2026

    Yes you are eligible to appear for NID DAT for the M.Des programme. Since you are in final make sure you will have completed your BA by the required deadline. Also go through the specific specializations you want to apply for, some may require certain specific backgrounds to be eligible