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    UCEED 2027 Eligibility Criteria: What's New This Year?

    UCEED 2027 Eligibility Criteria: What's New This Year?

    Sumeet SudarshanUpdated on 15 Oct 2026, 02:16 PM IST

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has notified the UCEED 2027 eligibility criteria in its information brochure. Aspirants who want to submit the UCEED application form must make sure they fulfil the eligibility norms to appear for the exam and also to secure BDes admission at various IITs. The eligibility criteria for UCEED include requirements about the minimum educational qualifications, number of attempts and age limit. In this article, let’s find out what’s new in UCEED 2027 eligibility criteria this year.

    UCEED 2027 Eligibility Criteria: What's New This Year?
    UCEED 2027 Eligibility Criteria

    IIT Bombay will conduct UCEED 2027 on January 17, 2027. The UCEED entrance exam is one of the top entrance exams in India and the gateway to admission into the BDes programme at participating IITs.

    UCEED 2027 Eligibility Criteria - What’s New?

    The years in which the aspirants must have passed the qualifying exam (Class 12 or equivalent) have changed. Similarly, the year by which the aspirants must have been born has changed from last year. The details about what’s new in the UCEED eligibility criteria this year are given below.

    • Minimum Educational Qualification

    Indian Institute of Art and Design, New Delhi

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    The candidate should have passed the qualifying examination (Class XII or equivalent) in

    2026 or 2027. Those who appeared for the first time in their qualifying examination in 2025

    or earlier are NOT eligible.

    The year of passing last as per the UCEED eligibility criteria last year, was 2025 or 2026

    • Age Limit

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    The candidate, if belonging to the Open/EWS/OBC-NCL category, should have been born on or after October 1, 2002, and on or after October 1, 1997, if belonging to the SC,

    ST or PwD category.

    The cutoff year for the birth date of candidates has increased by one year when compared to the UCEED eligibility criteria last year.

    • Number of Attempts

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    The number of attempts as per the UCEED 2027 eligibility criteria is restricted to two attempts in two consecutive years. This means candidates who appeared in UCEED 2026 for the first time are eligible to appear for UCEED 2027 again, which would be their second attempt.

    Candidates who appeared in UCEED 2025 are not eligible to appear for UCEED 2027. This is a change from the UCEED 2026 eligibility criteria last year, in which candidates who appeared in UCEED 2025 were eligible to appear for the exam.

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