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IIT Delhi to Begin Bachelor of Design Program from Academic Session 2022

IIT Delhi to offer the Bachelor of Design Program through its Department of Design that came into existence in the year 2017

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IIT Delhi Board of Governors has approved starting of ‘Bachelor of Design (BDes)’ from the session 2022-23 keeping in mind the impact the Design has on human lives and the subject is a vehicle for social and economic progress of any country. The Bachelor of Design Program will be offered through the Institute’s Department of Design, which came into existence in 2017. The four-year program will have 20 seats to start with and will be open to students of all specializations such as science, arts, and commerce among others.

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Throwing light on the new academic program, Prof PV Madhusudhan Rao, head, Department of Design, IIT Delhi said: “The program is designed for imparting high quality education to produce industry-ready and socially conscious design professionals for addressing some of the grand challenges facing our society or country.”

Students who wish to pursue the Bachelor of Design program will have to register for and attempt Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED). Registrations for the exam have begun on the IIT Bombay website, and candidates will be selected for the course based on the UCEED ranks. IIT Delhi has been running a Master of Design (MDes) program . and the Department of Design at IIT Delhi also has a strong PhD program in place with more than 35 research scholars presently enrolled in the program.

Prof V Ramgopal Rao, director, IIT Delhi said: “We are delighted about starting of this new Bachelor’s program in design as this is the first time IIT Delhi would be admitting undergraduate students (B.Des) from other than Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. We expect that the students who graduate with a B. Des. degree from IIT Delhi would take up leadership positions in industry, academia, government, consulting, and entrepreneurship over a period of time. Bachelor of Design (BDes) program and other programs in design, which are in pipeline at IIT Delhi will bridge the huge demand-supply gap of quality design professionals, which our country needs to excel as a creative economy.”

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