NIFT 2025 registration deadline today for UG, PG, PhD admission; apply at exams.nta.ac.in/NIFT

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) will close the regular registration window for the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Entrance Examination 2025 today, January 6, 2025. The NIFT 2025 entrance exam is scheduled to be held on February 9, 2025.

Eligible candidates can fill out the NIFT 2025 application form through the official website, exams.nta.ac.in/NIFT. The NIFT Entrance Exam 2025 is conducted for admission into Undergraduate (UG), Postgraduate (PG) programmes (regular, NLEA, artisans) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) offered by 18 NIFT campuses across the country.

As per the schedule on admission guidelines PDF, the last date to register for the Bachelor of Design (BDes) under the artisan category and for PhD programme is February 28, 2025. The last date to register for the UG, PG programmes for NRI, foreign students is April 30, 2025.

NIFT Entrance Exam 2025: Registration fee

Candidates belonging to the open, other backward classes (OBC), and economically weaker section (EWS) categories will have to pay an application fee of Rs 3,000 to register for the NIFT 2025 exam. Candidates from the scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST), and persons with disability (PwD) categories are required to pay Rs 1,500.

Candidates who missed registering for the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) 2025 entrance exam by the deadline will have another opportunity to complete the registration. They can fill out the NIFT 2025 application form by paying a late fee of Rs 5,000, in addition to the applicable application fee, from January 7, 2025, to January 9, 2025. The registered candidates will be able to make changes to their application through the correction facility from January 10 to January 12, 2025.

Also read UCEED 2025 admit card out at uceed.iitb.ac.in; make changes in hall ticket by January 9

NIFT 2025: Mode, medium of exam

As per the official notification, the General Ability Test (GAT) will be conducted in computer-based test (CBT) mode, while the Creative Ability Test (CAT) will be held in pen-and-paper-based test (PBT) mode.

The GAT paper will be conducted in bilingual format i.e. Hindi and English. Candidates will have to answer in the medium as per the option exercised in the application form. “In case of any ambiguity between Hindi and English versions due to translation, the English version would be treated as final,” the official notice read.