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Total Fees

9.35 L

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Fees Details

General

₹ 9.35 L

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Course Details

MODE

Full time

DURATION

30 Months

Master of Design (M.Des) in Strategic Design Management is a full-time two and Half-year postgraduate course offered by the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar Campus

Important dates

Exams and Events	Dates

NID DAT Admit Card Date - Prelims BDes (Mode - Online)	23 Dec'24 - 23 Dec'24
NID DAT Exam Date - Prelims BDes (Mode - Offline)	4 Jan'25 - 4 Jan'25
NID DAT Result Date - Prelims BDes (Mode - Online)	31 Mar'25 - 31 Mar'25
NID DAT Others - Rechecking request for DAT Prelims BDes (Mode - Online)	31 Mar'25 - 1 Apr'25
NID DAT Admit Card Date - Mains BDes (Mode - Online)	13 Apr'25 - 13 Apr'25
NID DAT Exam Date - Mains BDes (Mode - Offline)	25 Apr'25 - 3 May'25
NID DAT Result Date - Mains BDes (Mode - Online)	15 May'25 - 15 May'25
NID DAT Others - Window for campus preference submission (Mode - Online)	15 May'25 - 17 May'25
NID DAT Others - Rechecking request for DAT Mains BDes (Mode - Online)	15 May'25 - 16 May'25
NID DAT Others - Seat allotment, Token fee payment & Documents uploading - BDes (Mode - Online)	26 May'25 - 29 May'25
NID DAT Others - Provisional offer letter - BDes (Mode - Online)	9 Jun'25 - 9 Jun'25
NID DAT Others - Remaining semester fee payment - BDes (Mode - Online)	10 Jun'25 - 15 Jun'25

Eligibility Criteria

Age Limit:

For Indian Nationals in General Category & General EWS Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1991 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Indian Nationals in Reserved Category (Other Backward Class-Non Creamy Layer (OBC- NCL), Scheduled Caste (SC) & Scheduled Tribe (ST): Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1988 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 1986 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Foreign Nationals in Overseas (Supernumerary) Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1991 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 12^th standard or equivalent to 12^th 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 July/August.

OR

Full-time Diploma of minimum 4-year duration in Design/Fine Arts/Applied Arts/ Architecture, after 12^th standard or equivalent to 12^th 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 July/August.

OR

Bachelor Degree of minimum 3-year duration in any specialization, after 12^th standard or equivalent to 12^th standard.

Condition: Candidates must have passed the 3 year Bachelor degree examinations by 2020. Those applicants who were in the final year of Academic Year 2019-20 and whose examinations have not been conducted by 2020, due to the pandemic situation prevailing in the country, can also apply.