IIT Delhi to launch BTech in Design; admission through JEE Advanced 2025

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi’s (IIT Delhi) Department of Design will launch a four-year BTech course in Design for the academic year 2025-26. To get admission in the undergraduate (UG) programme, candidates must qualify the UCEED and have a valid JEE Advanced 2025 score.

The aim to launch the new BTech programme in Design is to prepare the students to be confident in using design as a vehicle to address problems in industry and society, according to the official statement by IIT Delhi.

As per the admission criteria, students will have to qualify the Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) and submit their Joint Entrance Examination Advanced (JEE) 2025 score to be selected for the BTech in Design at IIT Delhi.

“This is a unique programme crafted especially for empathetic and creative minds intent on understanding socio-technical systems around them and designing solutions for the wicked problems in these systems. Students pursuing B. Tech. in Design will learn about prevalent technologies, systematic design thinking processes, research methods for analyzing socio-technical systems, communication and presentation skills, and teamwork,” the institute said.

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UCEED must for BTech in Design

IIT Delhi’s BTech in Design will offer courses with core discipline of design and from other departments, centres, and schools (like the other BTech programmes).

The curriculum will include easy collaboration and partnerships between the design department and other departments or centres or schools at IIT Delhi.

Combining the strengths of technology and design, the UG programme will boost a unique combination of learning processes, namely systematic discovery and understanding, as engineering education, and “exploration of individualistic and creative leaps, as design education,” the institute added.