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UCEED Exam Date:18 Jan' 26 - 18 Jan' 26
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay offers design admission into UG programmes through UCEED. IIT Bombay conducts the UCEED entrance exam for the candidates who are planning to join IITs. The UCEED 2026 registrations will begin in October 2025. Candidates to fill and submit the UCEED application form 2026 online before the due date. The UCEED 2026 eligibility criteria should be met by the candidates before applying. Also, the application fee payment has to be made online during the UCEED 2026 application process.
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IIT Bombay announced the UCEED 2026 exam date as January 18. Candidates who wish to get BDesign admission in IITs have to qualify the UCEED 2026 and appear for the counselling. BDes admission at IITs are offered under the courses like product design, interaction design, communication design, furniture design, visual communication etc. Read the complete article to know more about UCEED admission 2025 dates, criteria, form filling process and more.
The students who qualify in the UCEED exam, and obtain a good rank above the cut off will be eligible for admission into the following Indian Institute of Technology campuses - IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIITDM Jabalpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT Indore and IIT Roorkee. However, apart from IITs, there are many other design colleges in India accepting UCEED score. Aspirants must also fulfil the eligibility criteria to get admissions into these colleges. The students have to qualify the UCEED 2026 exam and fulfil the minimum educational qualification of 10 + 2 level or equivalent.
The UCEED admission dates 2026 will be released along with the notification in October 2025. The students must not miss out on any of the important UCEED dates. Here are some important dates regarding the UCEED admission.
UCEED Admission Process Events | UCEED Admission Dates |
Start date for Online Registration | October 2025 |
Last date for Online Registration with regular fee | October 2025 |
Last date for Online Registration with late fee | November 2025 |
Start date for Admit Card downloading | January 2026 |
UCEED Exam date | January 18, 2026 |
Declaration of results | March 2026 |
Start date for Score Card downloading | March 2026 |
Last date for Score Card downloading | June 2026 |
The students have to visit the portal using their login credentials and check the current updates on UCEED 2026 after its release. The students can find the admit card details, results and other subsequent details on the dashboard of the admission portal.
Students who want to take admissions into the IIT must fulfil certain UCEED 2026 eligibility criteria. The UCEED admission criteria will be released along with the notification for the UCEED application 2026. The UCEED admission eligibility criteria include the student's minimum educational qualification and age limit. The UCEED Admission Criteria are listed below:
The UCEED 2026 application process includes registration of the students for the exam, appearing the exam, and qualifying it followed by a counselling process. The students must follow the steps given below in order to complete their UCEED 2026 admission form.
After the UCEED admission form is completely filled out the students must submit it and download it for further reference.
The UCEED entrance exam or IITs BDes entrance test will be conducted for 3 hours to test the students' design aptitude and drawing skills. IIT Bombay conducts the UCEED entrance exam every year to select the 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:
IIT Bombay
IIT Delhi
IIT Guwahati
IIT Hyderabad
IIITDM Jabalpur
IIT Roorkee
IIT Indore
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 as per the previous year.
VIT School of Design (V-SIGN), Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
Department of Design, Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT), New Delhi
Somaiya School of Design, Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai
Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru
The UCEED counselling process comprises of submission of the online application for BDes programme. The UCEED counselling process will take place in an online mode. The students need to take the following steps for the UCEED counselling process:
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. The 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.
The students should know about the UCEED 2026 admission fee structure for various colleges which is yet to be released. Hence, as per the previous year trends candidates can check the table below showing the fee structure of the different colleges.
UCEED participating institution | Fee Structure |
---|---|
Rs. 1,23,350 | |
Rs. 1,22,400 | |
Rs. 1,54,150 | |
Rs. 1,61,965 | |
IIT Roorkee BDes Fees | Rs. 1,53,300 |
IIITDM Jabalpur BDes Fees | Rs. 82,750 |
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.
Check Institute-Wise UCEED Admission Process
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The students who have completed the 10 + 2 level of exam and are under the age of 25 in the year of admission can appear for the UCEED exam 2026.
The students need to qualify the 10 + 2 level of examination however there are no restrictions on how much the score is.
The UCEED entrance exam is conducted once a year.
No, the UCEED exam does not consist of interviews.
IIT Bombay is known to be the best for design studies.
On Question asked by student community
Hello,
NIFT 2026 admission - Applications release around November–December 2025.
UCEED 2026- Registrations open around September–October 2025.
Pearl Academy - They have multiple admission cycles (Jan, April, June). Applications usually open by October 2025 for Jan cycle.
Keep checking official sites regularly since dates shift slightly every year.
Thank you!
Hello!
UCEED is a competitive exam for design aspirants, testing design aptitude, logical thinking, creativity, and visualisation skills. To improve your score out of 300, start by understanding the exam pattern—Part A (objective) and Part B (subjective). For Part A, practice reasoning, numerical aptitude, and environmental & social awareness questions. For Part B, focus on drawing, sketching, and presenting your ideas clearly. Solve past year UCEED papers and join online mock test series. Spend at least 2–3 hours daily practising creative problem-solving and sketching. Also, work on time management because the exam requires quick thinking.
Thank you for reading, and I wish you the best
Hello Akanksha,
For NID DAT 2026, your eligibility is established based on your born date as you are born on or after July 1st 2005. For UCEED 2026, your eligibility is dependent on your born date by category. You are eligible if you are OPEN/EWS/OBC-NCL category and born on or after October 1, 2001. If you are SC/ST/PwD category you must be born on or after October 1, 1996 in order to be eligible. Based on your born date of December 20th, 2006 for both NID DAT 2026 and UCEED 2026; you will be eligible.
The UCEED exam is conducted by IIT Bombay, and the previous year’s question papers you can download the papers along with answer keys directly from the link given below :
https://design.careers360.com/articles/uceed-previous-year-question-papers
Thank you and all the best!
Currently, NSUT does not offer a B.Des. program. However, other institutes like IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, and IIITDM Jabalpur offer B.Des. through UCEED.
Expected UCEED Cutoffs (General Category):
IIT Bombay: Around Rank 14
IIT Delhi: Around Rank 35
IIITDM Jabalpur: Around Rank 165
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