Soumita Mukherjee's Review On National Institute Of Fashion Technology - [NIFT], Navi Mumbai

Nift has taught me the put in the extra effort and hard work to fulfill my dreams. Its a course which give an all around development of a person and make him,her a successful human being.

I took NIFT entrance exam i ranked 100th around 800 seats were available in Design at that time. I liked creative fields therefore opted to go to NIFT.

The first year is common for all design courses where we are taught the various skills in art like sketch,illustrations how to handle various materials like wood,plastic,plaster of paris. The fundamentals of design are taught. Second year onwards the specialization for the respective courses start with internship at the end of 3rd year design collection project in final year which ends with a show.

My internship was under designer Deepika Gehani who has her own label. It was an amazing experience to work under practicing Designer and learn about the basics of design world,interact with clients make customised designs. This helps a lot to build the confidence in armature design aspirants.

The placements start in last semester its the best in Mumbai and Delhi campuses. We had companies like Raymond,Madura Garments,Pantaloons Shopper Stop,Remanika, Sheetal etc come for it. The packages started at 2.5 lacs to 4.5 lacs at that time highest by Raymond.

There are a lot of cultural events like college fests like "spectrum" which happened annually. It gives an opportunity to showcase your skills also interact with students of other colleges and other campuses as well.

The fees is paid for every semester on the expensive side only as NIFT is the best of its kind in Design Colleges in India. Also there is good expenditure to buy course material every semester.

Haven't availed the loan facility but participated on scholarship test for final year organised by Raymond.

Campus life has a good balance of extra curricular and academics where there are celebrations during festivals. There are a lot of committees for the students to participate and build on their talents. The GC & IT labs and library are updated with latest technology for students to get the best of Infra support.

The hostel facilities are only for first year female students in campus. It was 3 sharing at that time with common bathroom area. The Mess food is decent with good hygiene standards. After first year students move out for PG options or flat sharing plenty available near the campus.

Alumni network is decently okay with FB groups and in batch connections are good enough. But inter batch connections can be improved with some more activities conducted by the College.

The exams happen twice every semester total 8 semesters. There are both practical as well as theoretical exams where the marking system is comparative to maintain healthy competition in the batch. There are around 8-10 subjects each semester.

the faculties are all industry experts with in depth knowledge about their subjects which helps us get practical knowledge about various things , also they give individual attention to each student which helps a lot to bring out the unique talent in him.