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05 Aug, 2025 NIFT 2025 spot round counselling starts@nift.admissions.nic.in; allotment result out on August 8, 2025. Check Here
NIFT counselling 2025 is open on the official website – nift.admissions.nic.in. Candidates must register using their login credentials. NIFT Counselling Round 3 seat allotment result has been released on July 28, 2025. Shortlisted candidates must accept the seat and pay the admission fee by July 29 and report by July 30, 2025.
- Spot round registration is open from August 1 to 4, 2025. The seat allotment for spot round will be out on August 8, 2025.
The seat allotment is released based on the NIFT 2025 merit rank of the candidate and options selected at the time of counseling registration.
Candidates who will be shortlisted from Selection Test and Personal Interview will only be allowed for NIFT Counselling 2025. Candidates must keep this in mind Personal Interview is for PG Candidates and Situation Test is for UG Candidates. The institute advised candidates to be prepared for counselling registration by having all the necessary documents readily available. It Mentioned that all documents submitted should be clear and readable PDFs, and each file size must be between 50 KB and 250 KB.
NIFT Seat allotment process will be conducted in ther rounds, followed with the spot round. Candidates have to login with their user id and password for NIFT Counselling Registration.Check NIFT College Predictor 2025
Candidates are required to enter details like academic details, and choice preference at the time of registering for NIFT 2025 Counselling. Based on factors like the category of candidate, merit rank, order of preference and seat intake for NIFT 2025, candidates will be allotted seats in NIFT. Check NIFT 2025 Selection Process
NIFT Counselling 2025 Schedule
Aspirants can check the NIFT Counselling 2025 Schedule tabulated below:
Event | Dates |
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Round 1 | |
Registration and Document Uploading | 24 June 2025 – 01 July 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Document Verification | 24 June 2025 – 02 July 2025 (6:00 PM) |
Choice Filling and Locking | 24 June 2025 – |
Seat Allotment | 07 July 2025 |
Willingness Submission and Admission Fee Payment | 07 July 2025 – 10 July 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Round 2 | |
Correction in Application Form | 12 July 2025 (up to 5:00 PM) |
Document Verification (for corrected applications) | 12 July 2025 (up to 8:00 PM) |
Choice Filling/Modifications | 14 July 2025 – 16 July 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Seat Allotment | 18 July 2025 |
Willingness Submission and Admission Fee Payment | 18 July 2025 – 21 July 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Withdrawal | 18 July 2025 – 21 July 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Round 3 | |
Correction in Application Form | 23 July 2025 (up to 5:00 PM) |
Document Verification (for corrected applications) | 23 July 2025 (up to 8:00 PM) |
Choice Filling/Modifications | 24 July 2025 – 25 July 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Seat Allotment | 28 July 2025 |
Willingness Submission and Admission Fee Payment | 28 July 2025 – 29 July 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Withdrawal | 28 July 2025 – 29 July 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Physical Reporting of Candidates | 30 July 2025 |
Spot Round | |
Registration and Participation Fee Payment | 01 August 2025 – 04 August 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Document Verification of Newly Registered Candidates | 01 August 2025 – 05 August 2025 (6:00 PM) |
Choice Filling/Modifications and Locking | 01 August 2025 – 06 August 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Seat Allotment | 08 August 2025 |
Admission Fee Payment | 08 August 2025 – 10 August 2025 (12:00 Midnight) |
Physical Reporting at Allotted Institute | 11 August 2025 |
NIFT Counselling 2025 Process
Candidates have to follow the procedure given below to participate in the counselling.
- Registration
- First of all, candidates have to register themselves on the official website.
- Without registration, no candidate will be allowed to appear in the counselling rounds.
- Candidates can register for the counselling by using their credentials, such as form number, date of birth and password.
- Campus Choice
- At the time of registration, candidates have to fill the campus choice in which they want to appear in the counselling.
- Candidates can select one of the 16 campuses of NIFT.
- Download Call Letter
- After successful registration, a “system generated letter”, will be received by the candidate through SMS and e-mail on their registered mobile and email id.
- The letter will contain the details of the Nodal Officer and the documents required for Counselling and Admission.
- Counselling
- The counselling will take place on the campus, which is selected by the candidate through offline mode.
- Candidates have to report the counselling center in a given reporting time for the document verification and allocation of seats.
Documents Required for NIFT Counselling 2025
Candidates, who are called for the NIFT 2025 counselling, must carry the below-mentioned original documents along with their photocopies for the admission procedure. After verification, NIFT will return the original certificates to them apart from the medical certificate.
- Valid PWD certificate
- Photograph (2 passport & 4 stamp size)
- Certificate of clearing 10+2/equivalent examination
- System generated letter/e-mail received by the candidate
- Copy of 12th class school leaving certificate (for domicile seats only)
- Certificate from the Board from which he/she passed the High School/Higher Secondary Examination
- Semester fee – Demand draft of Rs. 1,10,450/- (Non-NRI) drawn in favour of the NIFT HO payable at the city of the counselling
- Certificate of clearing 10+2/equivalent examination, showing the subjects offered by him/her in the exam. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics for B.F.Tech.
- Certificate from the prescribed authority showing that he/she belongs to an SC/ST/OBC (Non-Creamy) category. (Applicable only to candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC (Non-Creamy) category
- Semester fee; Demand Draft of INR 1,45,950.
- Undertaking for the candidate seeking provisional admission-(Annexure-I)
- Undertaking from the students, as per provisions of anti-ragging (Annexure-II)
- Form for withdrawal of admission (Annexure-III)
- Undertaking about eligibility, fee and refund (Annexure-IV)
- Medical fitness certificate in the prescribed format (Annexure VI)
- Authorization letter from the candidates, who are not in a position to attend in person (Annexure-VII) (not applicable for PWD candidates)
Note- If any of the above-mentioned documents are in any other language than Hindi/English, then an authentic translation in English/Hindi should be produced duly verified by the issuing institution/gazetted officer/self-attested by the candidate at the time of NIFT Counselling 2025. A candidate failing to do so will not be considered for admission.
NIFT Admission 2025: Withdrawal of Seat and Money Refund
- A candidate, who has taken admission once and then withdraws, will not be considered for admission during subsequent rounds of seat allocation.
- The refund against withdrawal of seat will be governed as under:
Particular | Amount Refund |
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If admission is not taken after registration for the counselling | a full-seat acceptance fee |
Withdrawal request after confirmation of the seat request received online on the portal until or before the starting of the last round of counselling. No physical request will be entertained. | The registration fee for counselling for NIFT won’t be refunded. That is Rs. 9300 |
After starting of last round of NIFT Counselling | Only security deposit |
NIFT 2025 Seat Allotment
Programmes | Category | PWD Category Rank |
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Bachelor of Design (B.Des) | Gen- PWD | 1 to 37 |
OBC (NC)-PWD | 1 to 20 | |
SC- PWD | 1 to 4 | |
ST- PWD | 1 | |
Bachelor of Fashion Technology (B.F.Tech) | Gen-PWD | 1 to 5 |
OBC (NC)-PWD | 1 to 6 |
Bachelor of Fashion Technology (B.F. Tech.)
Category | No. of candidates | Common Merit Rank |
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This includes candidates from GEN, SC, OBC, ST, State Domicile / Children & Wards of NRI (subject to availability of seats) | 150 | 001-150 |
160 | 151-311 | |
170 | 312-482 | |
180 | 483-662 | |
200 | 663-862 | |
GEN, SC, OBC, ST, State Domicile/Children & Wards of NRI (subject to seat availability) | All candidates having common merit rank from 863 to 1574 | |
GEN, ST, SC, OBC, State Domicile / Children & Wards of NRI (subject to seat availability) | All candidates having common merit rank from 1575 to 2581 |
NIFT 2025 Reservation of Seats
Some seats will be reserved for the categories such as SC/ST/Differently Abled Candidates (PHP)/Foreign Nationals/SAARC/NRI in each programme which are given below:
Categories | Seats Reserved (%) |
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SC | 15% |
ST | 7.5% |
OBC (Non- Creamy) | 27% |
Differently Abled Candidates (PHP) | 3% |
Foreign Nationals/SAARC/NRI | 15% |
State Domicile | 20% |
NIFT Seat Intake 2025
Program | Discipline | Seats |
---|---|---|
Bachelors in Design | Accessory Design | 660 |
Fashion Design | 743 | |
Fashion Communication | 742 | |
Textile Design | 743 | |
Knitwear Design | 346 | |
Leather Design | 172 | |
B.F.Tech | 652 | |
M.F.Tech | 304 | |
M.Design | 74 | |
M.F.M | 786 | |
Combined Intake of all Program | 5215 |
Cancellation of NIFT Admission 2025
A candidate can face the cancellation of his/her candidature under the following circumstances:
- Qualifying NIFT Entrance Exam does not entitle a candidate with admission confirmation.
- If the organizing authorities are not satisfied with the character, past behaviour or antecedents of the candidate, then there admission can be cancelled.
- Director of the Campus can cancel the admission granted to any candidate at any stage if it is found that the candidate has got admission in any Campus /Program on the basis of false information, or by hiding relevant facts. Also, if it is found that admission given due to any mistake or oversight the admission granted will be cancelled without any prior notice and at any time during the course of his studies. Fee deposited by the candidate will be forfeited.
- During verification, before or after the Written Test, Situation Test, Group Discussion and Interview (as the case may be), if it is found that candidate doesn’t fulfil the eligibility criteria, their candidature admission stands cancelled without any notice or further reference.
- A candidate must report to allotted NIFT Campus within 7 days of commencement of the session. If a candidate fails to do so then the admission of the candidate gets cancelled without any intimation and the tuition fee paid will be forfeited.
- The Director-General can cancel the admission of any student for a specific reason or debar him for a certain period.
- Merit will be valid only for the programme for which the candidate has appeared. Admission to any other category/course will not be considered.
NIFT Counselling 2025 Centers
- Bhopal
- Patna
- Shillong
- Bangaluru
- Gandhinagar
- Chennai
- Jodhpur
- Kannur
- Mumbai
- New Delhi
- Hyderabad
- Kangra
- Bhubaneswar
- Kolkata
- Rae Bareli
Frequently Asked Question
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*The article might have information for the previous academic years, which will be updated soon subject to the notification issued by the University/College.
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