The UCEED 2027 admissions will be for the BDes programme at participating IITs and other institutes. IIT Bombay has released the UCEED 2027 application form on October 1, 2026. Interested applicants have to submit the application form by October 31, 2026, to avoid a late fee, or by November 6, 2026, with a late fee. Authorities will conduct the UCEED 2027 exam on January 17, 2027. Candidates must first clear the UCEED Part A cut-off to be evaluated for Part B and be eligible for UCEED admissions. Candidates who wish to get B.Design admission in IITs have to qualify the UCEED entrance exam and appear for the counselling. BDes admission at IITs is offered under courses like product design, interaction design, communication design, furniture design, visual communication. etc. Read the complete article to know more about UCEED admission 2027 dates, criteria, form-filling process, and more.
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Students who qualify in the UCEED exam and clear the UCEED cut-off will be eligible for admission into the participating institutes, which include IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIITDM Jabalpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT Indore, and IIT Roorkee. There are many other design colleges in India accepting the UCEED score. Aspirants must also fulfil the eligibility criteria to get admission into these colleges. However, they are not part of the centralised counselling process, and aspirants have to apply separately to these colleges.
The UCEED admission process into various IITs and other colleges accepting UCEED marks can be checked below. Here is a detailed UCEED admission process given step-wise that the students can follow.
The UCEED dates 2027 will be notified published along with the UCEED exam notification. The table below provides the important dates regarding the UCEED admission.
| 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 | April 21 to 29, 2027 |
| Withdrawal of seat | April 30 to May 11, 2027 |
| Round 2 seat allotment | May 19, 2027 |
| Payment of seat acceptance fee | May 19 - 27, 2027 |
| Withdrawal of seat | May 28 - June 9, 2027 |
| Round 3 seat allotment | June 14, 2027 |
| Payment of the seat acceptance fee | June 14 to 18, 2027 |
| Withdrawal of seat | June 19 to 22, 2027 |
| Round 4 seat allotment | June 25, 2027 |
| Payment of the seat acceptance fee | June 25 to July 3, 2027 |
| Withdrawal of seat | July 4 to July 7, 2027 |
| Round 5 seat allotment | July 09, 2027 |
| Payment of the seat acceptance fee | July 9 to 13, 2027 |
Students who want to take admission into the IIT must fulfil certain UCEED 2027 eligibility criteria. The UCEED admission criteria were released along with the exam notification. The UCEED admission eligibility criteria include the student's minimum educational qualification and age limit. The UCEED Admission Criteria are listed below:
Authorities have opened the UCEED 2027 applications on October 1, 2026. The UCEED application process includes registration of the students for the exam, appearing for the exam, and qualifying for it, followed by a counselling process. Candidates can follow the steps given below to complete UCEED 2027 registration. Female and SC/ST/PwD candidates must pay an application fee of Rs 2000. Other candidates must pay an application fee of Rs 4000.
After the UCEED admission form is completely filled out the students must submit it and download it for further reference.
UCEED 2027 will be conducted on January 17, 2027. The UCEED entrance exam or IITs BDes entrance test is conducted for 3 hours to test the students' design aptitude and drawing skills. IIT Bombay conducts the UCEED entrance exam every year to select students for B.Des admission. Candidates who qualify in the entrance exam have to participate in the UCEED counselling process.
The IITs taking part in the UCEED exam admission include:
There are several colleges apart from IITs that offer admission to courses based on the marks obtained by the students in the UCEED exam. The list provided below gives the UCEED participating institutes.
The UCEED counselling process comprises the submission of the online admission for the BDes programme. The UCEED counselling process will take place online in multiple rounds. The UCEED counselling process includes the following steps-
The UCEED seat allotment of the candidates will be done on the basis of all India rank that they have obtained. The candidates will be sent provisional allotment letters to their email id and they will be directed to an online payment system in order for them to pay the seat acceptance fee which is Rs. 60,000 for General, EWS, OBC NCL and Rs 15,000 for SC, ST and PWD. Students who have not paid the seat acceptance fee will be declined of their admission.
In the first round of the UCEED seat allotment, the students can either accept (freeze) or decline it. If the students choose to decline it, they won't be able to participate in the subsequent rounds of counselling. In the second, third, fourth or fifth round of counselling, the candidates will be given a freeze/float option. If the candidates choose the freeze option, it means that they have accepted the offer, and if they choose the float option, it means that they are willing to accept the higher preference.
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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.
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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.
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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:
Hello Anvi, as you have to apply for design programs other than NIFT, NID and UCEED. There are various institutions which provides fashion design courses such as, Pearl University , MIT institute of Design , Symbiosis Institute of Design , FDDI , BITS Design School and many more. These colleges
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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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