How is the course curriculum of Bachelor of Fashion Technology [B.F.Tech] (Apparel Production) in NIFT Hyderabad?

The best part about the curriculum is multiple internships. Starting out after the second year, we have our textile internship. It spans over two weeks and we are supposed to submit a report and presentation regarding its working and the process flow. After our third year, an apparel internship of 2 months is to be carried out. This is a great experience to truly understand where and how to work in the industry. The last semester is entirely one internship for which different companies such as aditya birla, landmark, decathlon offers and comes to campus for placements. This might be one of the most important parts of the syllabus as it can help shape our entire career. Juries are taken for all these internships which again helps us in remembering everything important regarding the working of the fashion industry. Since our syllabus is regarding apparel production, it is majorly focused on this. This provides us great insight of the working of a textile and apparel factory and about the brands that we shop from. Another part of our syllabus is the inter disciplinary minor where we can learn subjects from other departments from semester 3. Then we have Deepening Specialisation from 3 different options, Production, Technology and Management. This allows us deeper analysis about the core of our subject.

The course curriculum was relevant which has further improved manifold recently adding a range of subjects like those related to physical and mental fitness, AI, machine learning etc and during internships we are supposed to do projects which integrates the knowledge of these subjects to solve industrial problems. The curriculum is semester based with exams at an interval of every 6 months.

For me, textile industry is far most one of the important industry in the world. I don't really understand why people don't appreciate it enough. I was always eager to learn how a garment manufacturing unit works. My childlike mind used to think one person had to stitch so many garments. But lucky enough, I am studying this course and it has given me all the knowledge and idea about a textile industry. Here, industry exposure is also given to you. Regular visits to unit or cluster are arranged by our faculties. The frequency of exams are alright here. In between a sem, two midterms happen and at the end jury/endterm happens. If you are aware what is going on in your class, you will get through all of it very easily.

The course curriculum basically comprises apparel production and technology. Including Fashion retail management, production management, supply chain, import-export houses, entrepreneurship etc. There are usually 35-40 seats per campus in a batch of Fashion Technology. All the faculty members are old and have vast experience in their respective fields. Most of the faculties are PhD. in their fields. Faculty from IIT is also here. Plus the guest faculties are also called for some subjects. There are optional subjects introduced which also includes sports in them. The termly exams happen every 6 months. Though a bit of pressure is there during the exams but the BFTech. students are under much less academic pressure than the design students. Hence they get a lot of time for skill development and extracurricular activities.

I find it interesting. There are fewer students so it is easy for the faculty to focus on each and every student. We have a lot of practical based learning. Our exams are conducted in 2 different formats. The theory subjects have written exam while rhe practical ones have jury exams.