IICD Jaipur: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Formerly called the National Institute of Design, the Indian Institute of Crafts and Design was set up in 1995 and is situated in Jaipur in Rajasthan. Since its establishment, IICD, affiliated to BPUT, has managed to create a unique identity in the field of craft & design. This institute teaches a total of 18 courses and included in the three programmes these are concentration on the soft material and hard material and fired material and fashion clothing and jewellery and crafts communication. IICD has a strong faculty base of 17 proficient educators, who offer one on one interaction with the students to give the best of their abilities.

Indian Institute of Crafts and Design has a number of active facilities and infrastructures to enable it achieve its educational function. Accommodations include standard classrooms, as well as well equipped laboratories and workshops which enhance the practical aspect in learning. KRC is the Knowledge Resource Centre of the institute, which boasts of a vast collection of books and related study material on Indian art, crafts, design science and the related disciplines. To accommodate female students, IICD has equipped a hostel with bare minimum facilities like air cooled rooms, drinking water facility through RO system and 100 % power backup. Student well-being is also valued here: the institute houses a physician, who comes in weekly, a yoga trainer and a psychologist too.

There is evidence that the academic profile of IICD is quite broad with a rich set of educational programmes offered. Currently the institute offers 18 programmes and among them there are both undergraduate and postgraduate ones. These are Bachelor of Design (B. Des) in the fields of Hard Material Design, Soft Material Design, Fired Material Design, Fashion Clothing Design, Jewellery Design and Crafts Communication, for which there are 180 seats each. The post graduate level of education in IICD is Master of Design (M.Des) or Master of Vocation (M.Voc.) offered in different specialisations and each course has a total seat of 90 students. Every course is offered full-time so the experience a student gets will be all-encompassing.

Similar to many other learning institutions, the admission of student in IICD bears the same objectives of admitting the most suitable students to its programmes. For the undergraduate course, students are given the sometime basis on the performance they have scored in their foundation semester as well as their potential of the students. It is arrived at by a committee formed by the Institute of International ceramic Digest or IICD. For the post graduate program including for the M.Voc.,intake for students from any stream other than Design/Architecture requires the students to first complete a one year Post Graduate Foundation Programme offered at IICD. This makes it easy for the students with different earlier backgrounds to join the design field with ease.