(ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA) NID : National Institute of Design

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(ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA) NID : National Institute of Design

Bachelor of Design (B.Des.)

All candidates applying for the B.Des. must fulfill the eligibility criteria of both age and education qualification as under.

Age Limit:

For Indian Nationals in General Category and General EWS Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 2002 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Indian Nationals in Reserved Category (Other Backward Class-Non Creamy Layer (OBCNCL), Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST): Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1999 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Indian Nationals in PwD Reserved Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1997 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Foreign Nationals in Overseas (Supernumerary) Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 2002 are eligible to apply for admission.

Educational Qualification:

Applications for academic year 2022–23 are open to candidates who have passed or will appear for higher secondary (10+2) qualifying examinations in the academic year 2021–22 in any stream (Science, Arts, Commerce, Humanities etc.) from any recognized board of education such as CBSE, IB, ICSE or equivalent.

Examinations considered equivalent to these are as follows:

Final examination of the 10+2 system under a Central or State Board recognized by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU, Refer http://www.aiu.ac.in).
Intermediate or two-year pre-University examination under a Board or University recognized by the Association of Indian Universities.
Final examination of the two-year course of the Joint Services Wing of the National Defence Academy.
Senior Secondary School examination under the National Institute of Open Schooling, with a minimum of five subjects.
Any public school, Board or University examination completed in India or in any foreign country recognized as equivalent to the 10+2 system by the Association of Indian Universities.
H.S.C. vocational examination.
General Certificate Education (GCE) examination at the Advanced (A) level taken in London, Cambridge or Sri Lanka.
AICTE-approved three-year Full time Diploma after Class X offered by Board of Technical Education of any state in India or Union Territories as mentioned on http://www.aicteindia.org.
Candidates who have completed final examinations for class XII (or equivalent) outside India or from a Board not specified above should produce an equivalence certificate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) confirming that the examination they have passed is equivalent to the Class XII examination conducted in India. This certificate is required to be submitted at the time of document verification.

Overseas Category (Supernumerary) candidates:

Foreign citizens—candidates holding citizenship of a country other than the Republic of India—are eligible to apply only under the Overseas (supernumerary) category, provided they fulfill all the eligibility criteria mentioned in Sections 3.1 of B.Des Admissions Handbook 2022-23.
In addition to the seats available for the B.Des. Programme, an additional 15% supernumerary seats are available for Overseas candidates. The number of seats available in Overseas (supernumerary) category is as under:

Programme No. of supernumerary seats

Bachelor of Design, NID Ahmedabad 19
Bachelor of Design, NID Madhya Pradesh* 11

* Amendments to the change in the number of seats in Overseas (supernumerary) category for each NID, if any, will be updated on the official website https://admissions.nid.edu only in the Amendment Section of this Handbook.

Note:
● Candidates under Overseas (supernumerary) category fall outside the ambit of seats reserved for the GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PwD categories.
● Candidates under Overseas (supernumerary) category are required to pay the fees as per the Overseas fees structure.
● Candidates holding OCI and PIO card will have to apply only under the Overseas (supernumerary) category.
● Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) holding an Indian passport are not eligible to apply under the Overseas (supernumerary) category and will have to apply as Indian nationals.
● Candidates will be offered admission to NID based on the final merit list of the Overseas (supernumerary) category, which will be prepared after all the stages of the admission process have been completed. Candidates will be offered admission to NID based on the minimum qualifying criteria that will be announced later.
● To accept the offer of admission, overseas candidates are required to produce the following documents along with their self-attested photocopies:
- Self-attested copy of the relevant pages of their valid passport.
- Self-attested copies of their grade sheets/mark sheets of SSC (Grade X) and HSC (Grade XII). Candidates in the process of completing their Grade XII must submit a bonafide certificate from their school or college.
- An equivalence certificate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi,will have to be obtained in advance and required to be submitted at the time of the document scrutiny/in-person counselling, tentatively scheduled in May/June 2022.
● The candidate will be responsible for obtaining a student visa for the entire duration of the programme at NID, before the commencement of the programme.
● If the selected candidates do not pay their programme fees or fail to produce any of the required documents, or if they decline the offer of admission, their candidature will stand cancelled and their seat will be offered to the next candidate in the order of merit under Overseas category.
● Seats remaining vacant/unfilled in the Overseas (supernumerary) category will lapse and will not be transferred to candidates from any other categories.
● Overseas candidates will have to appear for DAT Prelims and DAT Mains as per the schedule mentioned in Section 2 of B.Des Admissions Handbook 2022-23.
● Overseas candidates may choose their test centre for DAT Prelims from any of the test centres mentioned in Section 6.3 of B.Des Admissions Handbook 2022-23.
● The medium of instruction at NID is English language.

Important Note:
● Candidates must have passed their Class XII examination (higher secondary (10+2)) or equivalent at the time of document scrutiny/in-person counseling tentatively scheduled in May/June 2022.
● Candidates who have not passed their final board exam or equivalent before the document scrutiny/in-person counseling will not be eligible for admission.

Master of Design (M.Des.)

All candidates applying for the M.Des. programme (any discipline) must fulfill eligibility criteria of both age and education qualification as under.
Age Limit:

For Indian Nationals in General Category & General EWS Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1992 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Indian Nationals in Reserved Category (Other Backward Class-Non Creamy Layer (OBCNCL), Scheduled Caste (SC) & Scheduled Tribe (ST): Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1989 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Indian Nationals in Person with Disabilities (PwD) Reserved Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1987 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Foreign Nationals in Overseas (Supernumerary) Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1992 are eligible to apply for admission.

Educational Qualification:

In addition to satisfying the above age criteria, the candidate must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications to be considered eligible for admissions:

Bachelor Degree of minimum 4-year duration in any specialization, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard from any university or institute recognised by law in India.
Condition: Candidate must have passed the Bachelor Degree examinations at the time of document verification tentatively scheduled in May/June 2022*.

Full-time Diploma of minimum 4-year duration in Design/Fine Arts/Applied Arts/Architecture, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard, from any university or institute recognised by law in India.
Condition: Candidates must have passed the Diploma examinations at the time of document verification tentatively scheduled in May/June 2022*.

Bachelor Degree of minimum 3-year duration in any specialization, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard.
Condition: Candidates must have passed the 3-year Bachelor degree examinations by August 2021.

* Candidates in the final year of their Bachelor degree/ Full-time Diploma programme whose universities may not have issued the final degree certificate before that last date of application to NID, are eligible to apply, subject to passing all subjects without any backlog. Such candidates will have to submit/produce Provisional Degree certificates at the time of document verification.

Note:
In case the degree/certificate has been obtained from a University/Board of any country other than India, an equivalence certificate must be submitted to Admissions Office by the candidate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi, at the time of document verification tentatively scheduled in May/June 2022. Visit http://www.aiu.ac.in for more details about how to obtain an equivalence certificate.

Overseas Category (Supernumerary candidates):

Foreign candidates—holding citizenship of a country other than the Republic of India—are eligible To apply only under the Overseas (supernumerary) category, provided they fulfill all the eligibility criteria mentioned in Sections 4.1 of M.Des Admissions Handbook 2022-23.

Of the seats available for the M.Des., 15% supernumerary seats are available for Overseas candidates. The actual number of seats available under Overseas (supernumerary) category is as under:

Programme No. of seats

Master of Design (discipline having 19 seats) 03
Master of Design (discipline having 12 seats) 02

Note:

Candidates under Overseas (supernumerary) category fall outside the ambit of seats reserved for the GEN- EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PwD categories and are required to pay the fees as per Overseas fee category.
Candidates holding OCI and PIO card will have to apply only under the Overseas (supernumerary) category.
Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) holding an Indian passport are not eligible to apply under the Overseas (supernumerary) category and will have to apply as Indian nationals only.
Candidates will be offered admission to NID based on the final merit list of the Overseas (supernumerary) category, which will be prepared after all the stages of the admission process have been completed. Candidates will be offered admission to NID based on the minimum qualifying criteria as mentioned in Section 8.5 of M.Des Admissions Handbook 2022-23.
To accept the offer of admission, overseas candidates are required to visit the NID campus in person, as per the schedule. At this time, candidates will be required to produce the following original documents along with their self-attested photocopies:

- Self-attested copy of the relevant pages of their valid passport.
- Self-attested copies of their grade sheets/mark sheets of all semesters equivalent to SSC (Grade X), HSC (Grade XII) and their degree certificate/provisional certificate/passing certificate.
- An equivalence certificate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi,will have to be obtained in advance and required to be submitted at the time of document verification tentatively scheduled in May/June 2022.

The candidate will be responsible for obtaining a student visa for the entire duration of the programme at NID, before the commencement of the programme.
If selected candidates do not pay their programme fees or fail to produce any of the required documents, or if they decline the offer of admission, their candidature will stand cancelled and their seat will be offered to the next candidate in order of merit under Overseas category.
Seats remaining vacant in the Overseas (supernumerary) category will lapse and will not be transferred to candidates from any other categories.
Overseas candidates will have to appear for DAT Prelims and DAT Mains as per the schedule mentioned in Section 2 of of M.Des Admissions Handbook 2022-23.
Overseas candidates may choose their test centre for DAT Prelims from any test centre mentioned in Section 7.3 of M.Des Admissions Handbook 2022-23.
The medium of instruction at NID is English language.

Important Note:

Candidates yet to appear for their qualifying exam (ONLY Full-time Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline under 10+2+4 system or more) are eligible to apply, provided they produce proof of having acquired the minimum required qualifications at the time of document verification. Candidates must produce a valid certificate (Provisional/Degree) at the time of document verification scheduled tentatively in May/June 2022. Failing to produce the provisional degree certificate, such candidate’s candidature will stand cancelled & will not be offered admission. Their seat will be offered to the next candidate in order of merit.
If the results of their final year of graduation (under 10+2+4 system or more only) have not been declared by the concerned Board or University at the time of submitting application, such candidate will have to submit provisional degree certificate at the time of document verification scheduled tentatively in May/June 2022.
Candidates who have not appeared for their final qualifying exam before the document verification of documents will not be eligible for admission.

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