IIFT Design Admissions 2026
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Indian Institute of Technology Bombay will open the UCEED 2027 application form on October 1, 2026, on its official website: uceed.iitb.ac.in. Candidates must complete the registration process and submit their application form by October 31, 2026 to avoid a late fee, or by November 6, 2026, with a late fee. All the registered candidates will be able to download the UCEED 2027 admit card on January 1, 2027. IIT Bombay will conduct the UCEED 2027 exam on January 17, 2027. IIT Bombay conducts the Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design for admission into the B.Des programmes of participating IITs. Shortlisted candidates in the exam will be offered IIT B.Des admission through the UCEED counselling process. Read the complete article to get complete details of UCEED 2027, including dates, eligibility, syllabus, and more.
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The UCEED participating institutes include 6 IITs, namely IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee, and IIT Indore, and also IIITDM Jabalpur. The IIT B.Des admission will be conducted through the UCEED counselling process. Other than IITs, there are also UCEED result-sharing institutes that conduct their admission based on UCEED scores.
Particulars | Details |
Exam name | Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design |
Short name | UCEED |
Conducting body | IIT Bombay |
Frequency | Once a year |
Mode | Online (Part A) and Offline (Part B) |
Programmes offered | B.Des |
Participating Institutes | 7 |
The UCEED 2027 dates has been notified on the official website: iitb.ac.in. Candidates can check all the UCEED dates in the table below.
| Events | Dates |
|---|---|
UCEED notification release date | October 1, 2026 |
UCEED 2027 application form release date | October 1, 2026 (5:00 PM Onwards) |
Last date to apply | October 31, 2026 (Without late fee) |
| November 6, 2026 (With late fee) | |
| UCEED 2027 admit card date | January 1, 2027 |
| Last date to rectify discrepancies in the admit card | January 8, 2027 |
UCEED 2027 Exam Date | January 17, 2027 (09:00 am to 12:00 noon) |
| UCEED 2027 draft answer key date | January 19, 2027 |
| Last date to submit comments on draft answer key | January 21, 2027 |
| UCEED 2027 final answer key | January 26, 2027 |
| Announcement of shortlisting based on Part A | February 04, 2027 |
| UCEED 2027 result date | March 06, 2027 |
| Scorecard download starts | March 10, 2027 |
| Last date to download scorecard | July 31, 2027 |
| Submission of application for the B.Des programme | March 15 to April 12, 2027 |
| Round 1 seat allotment | April 21, 2027 |
| Payment of seat acceptance fee | |
| Withdrawal of seat | |
| Round 2 seat allotment | May 19, 2027 |
| Payment of seat acceptance fee | |
| Withdrawal of seat | |
| Round 3 seat allotment | June 14, 2027 |
| Payment of the seat acceptance fee | |
| Withdrawal of seat | |
| Round 4 seat allotment | June 25, 2027 |
| Payment of the seat acceptance fee | |
| Withdrawal of seat | |
| Round 5 seat allotment | July 09, 2027 |
| Payment of the seat acceptance fee |
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The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, notifies the eligibility criteria for UCEED on its official website. Interested applicants must ensure they fulfill the UCEED 2027 eligibility criteria before completing registration. UCEED eligibility criteria include requirements about the educational qualification, age limit, attempts, and more.
Particulars | Details |
Year of passing the qualifying exam | Candidates who will be appearing in the UCEED exam, they should have either passed class XII or any other relevant qualifying exam exam either during the year of application or the next year. |
Age limit | Candidates must not be more than 24 years of age at the time of application. Candidates from SC/ST and PwD have an age relaxation of 5 years |
Number of attempts | Candidates who would be appearing for UCEED, they have the option to appear in the exam two consecutive times. The score for UCEED will be valid for a year, and candidates will be entitled to admission to the corresponding academic year. |
Subjects | IIITDM Jabalpur requires students to have physics, chemistry, and biology/mathematics in class 12. IIT Guwahati and IIT Roorkee require students to have physics, chemistry, and mathematics as compulsory subjects in class 12th. However, candidates from all streams can apply for IIT Bombay, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Indore. |
IIT Bombay will release the UCEED application form tentatively in October 2026. Candidates will be able to complete UCEED registration from the official website - uceed.iitb.ac.in
Category | Fee |
Female candidates (all categories) | Rs. 2000 |
SC/ST/PwD candidates | Rs. 2000 |
All other candidates | Rs. 4000 |
IIT Bombay notifies the UCEED 2027 syllabus in the admission brochure. The UCEED syllabus provides the important topics and sections to be covered in the exam. The UCEED 2027 syllabus for Parts A and B is given below.
Topics | Description |
Visualization and Spatial Reasoning | Ability to visualize and transform 2D shapes, 3D objects, and their spatial relationships. |
Practical and Scientific Knowledge | Know-how of scientific principles and everyday objects. |
Observation and Design Sensitivity | The capacity to detect concealed properties in day-to-day life and think critically about them. Attention to detail, classification, analysis, inference, and prediction. |
Environment and Society | General awareness of environmental, social, and cultural connections with design. |
Analytical and Logical Reasoning | Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative information. |
Language | Proficiency in reading and comprehending Standard English. |
Creativity | Grasp verbal and non-verbal analogies, metaphors, signs, and symbols. |
Topics | Description |
Drawing | Ability to draw products, people, or scenes in proportion with good line quality, composition, proportion, perspective, and shading. |
Design Aptitude | Capability to practically and appropriately respond to problems/situations with ingenuity and empathy. |
The UCEED 2027 exam pattern lays out the structure and modalities of the exam. The UCEED exam pattern informs the candidates on the exam duration, the number of questions asked, and the total number of marks, and also acts as a guide for focused preparation. Given below is an overview of the exam pattern.
Particulars | Exam Details |
Duration | 3 Hours |
Medium | English |
Sections | Part A and Part B |
Mode | Part A - Online Part B - To be answered offline |
UCEED total marks | 300 |
Division of marks and time | Part A: 2 hours and 200 marks Part B: 1 hour and 100 marks |
Given below are a few preparation tips for UCEED 2027 that candidates can follow to improve their performance in the exam.
The UCEED previous year question papers are an important learning resource for candidates. The table below provides the UCEED question papers for earlier years.
IIT Bombay will issue the UCEED admit card 2027 tentatively two weeks before the exam. Candidates who have completed UCEED 2027 registration will be able to download the UCEED admit card through their login. The UCEED admit card 2027 is a mandatory document for the exam as it consists of details such as the candidate's name, exam date and time, exam venue, and instructions to the candidates. The candidates will be required to carry a printout of the admit card on the exam day.
IIT Bombay will release the UCEED 2027 draft answer key on January 19, 2027, on its official website. Candidates will be able to raise objections and comments against the UCEED answer key till January 21, 2027, through the candidates portal. After considering the valid objections, the UCEED 2027 final answer key will be released on January 26, 2027.
IIT Bombay will declare the UCEED 2027 entrance exam results on March 06, 2027. Candidates will be able to download the UCEED result through their login. Authorities will release the scorecards for downloading from March 10, 2027. Candidates must note that the authorities will evaluate Part B of the question paper for only those candidates who have scored the minimum cut-off marks required for Part A. The UCEED 2027 result will be prepared based on the consolidated score in Part A and Part B of the exam.
Given below are the steps to download the result of UCEED 2027:
IIT Bombay will conduct the UCEED 2027 counselling registrations from March 15 to April 12, 2027, on its official website. Candidates who have been shortlisted in the results will be able to register for UCEED counselling. The UCEED counselling session will be held in five rounds of the seat allotment process. Candidates will be offered seat allotment based on their ranks and college preferences given at the time of counselling.
The UCEED cut-off 2027 will be published on the official website. The UCEED cut-off indicates the rank of the last candidate admitted into a particular course from a particular category. Only those candidates who clear the cut-off will be offered IIT B.Des admission.
On Question asked by student community
Hello Student,
To start your NID DAT and UCEED preparation, begin with the syllabus, exam pattern, and previous years' question papers. You can also refer to the Careers360 preparation resources and sample papers for regular practice using the links provided below.
Hi Student,
You can practise previous-year UCEED, NIFT and NID questions and check the correct answers or solutions after attempting them. For UCEED, Careers360 provides previous-year papers with answer keys, while NIFT papers are available with solutions. NID previous-year papers with solutions are also available for practice.
You can start
Hello Dear Student,
With UCEED AIR 130 (Open category) and currently allotted IIITDM Jabalpur under the FLOAT option, your chances after Rounds 4 and 5 depend on how many higher-ranked candidates withdraw or move to their preferred institutes.
Based on recent Round 5 Open-category closing ranks:
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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
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