Discipline · Design

Design Colleges in India

B.Des, industrial design, animation, and related design programmes confirmed from the institute catalogue — kept separate from unrelated engineering uses of “design”.

5

Institutes tracked

Focused

Design programmes

Official

Sources only

Government →Private →NIRF top 100 →JoSAA pathway →

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Design — key facts

Live data

Institutes with matching programmes	5
With NIRF Engineering rankNumeric rank from nirfindia.org — Engineering category (see Key figure below)	3
Canonical courses in this vertical	3
Avg Graduation Outcomes (GO)Independent NIRF sub-score — not a placement package	70.5
Top type on this list	PRIVATE (2)

Counts from Knwdle’s live directory (NIRF Engineering + programme canonical slugs). GO averages only include institutes with a stored Graduation Outcomes score.

Course branches

Canonical programmes in this discipline — each hub lists every institute that offers it. B.Des is the most-tracked branch here.

B.DesPrimaryBachelor of Design

Industrial DesignIndustrial Design

AnimationAnimation and VFX

Top Design colleges by NIRF

Up to 20 institutes with a numeric NIRF Engineering rank. Year-over-year movement appears only when prior-year ranks exist in our database.

3 of 3 ranked

Rank	Institute	Type	State	GO
#13	NIT Rourkela	NIT	Unknown	76.9
#16	VIT VelloreVellore	PRIVATE	Tamil Nadu	72.2
#48	LPUPhagwara	PRIVATE	Punjab	62.5

All institutes offering Design

NIRF · 2025

#13

NITUnknown

NIT Rourkela

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

NIRF 2025: #13
Type: NIT
Score: 66.62

Institute of National ImportanceJoSAAJEE Main

NIT Rourkela (formerly Regional Engineering College Rourkela) is a publicly funded Institute of National Importance in Rourkela, Odisha. It runs a diversified…

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NIRF · 2025

#16

PrivateVellore, Tamil Nadu

VIT Vellore

Vellore Institute of Technology

NIRF 2025: #16
Type: Private
Score: 65.25

Deemed universityNAAC A++AICTE-approved

Vellore Institute of Technology is a private deemed-to-be university established in 1984 at Katpadi, Vellore, with additional campuses at Chennai, Amaravati,…

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NIRF · 2025

#48

PrivatePhagwara, Punjab

LPU

Lovely Professional University

NIRF 2025: #48
Type: Private
Score: 55.99

State-act private universityUGC-recognizedUGC 12(B)

Lovely Professional University is a state private university in Phagwara, Punjab, recognised by the UGC under Sections 2(f) and 12(B). On its own accreditation…

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GFTIUnknown

School of Engineering, Tezpur University, Napaam, Tezpur

NIRF Engg: —
Type: GFTI
Location: Unknown

JoSAAJEE Main

School of Engineering, Tezpur University, Napaam, Tezpur is a Government Funded Technical Institute participating in JoSAA counselling. Undergraduate…

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GFTIUnknown

School of Studies of Engineering and Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur

NIRF Engg: —
Type: GFTI
Location: Unknown

JoSAAJEE Main

School of Studies of Engineering and Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur is a Government Funded Technical Institute participating in JoSAA…

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How to use this page

1Scan the ranked list — NIRF Engineering rank is the default sort when available.
2Open a course link in the sidebar to see every institute offering that canonical programme.
3On a profile, use Admissions / Fees tabs only when we have primary-source content for that institute.

Frequently asked questions

Answers use counts from this page's live institute list.

How many institutes appear for Design?: 5 institutes currently match this page’s filter. 3 of them have a numeric NIRF Engineering rank in our database.
Is “best” based on editorial opinion?: No. Where we sort or headline by rank, the order follows published NIRF Engineering ranks (nirfindia.org). Unranked institutes are not given a fabricated Knwdle rank.
What is Graduation Outcomes (GO)?: GO is an NIRF sub-score (independent of self-reported packages). On this page, 3 institutes have a GO value; the average among those is 70.5.
How do course pages relate to this discipline?: Each course in the sidebar links to a cross-institute programme hub built from JoSAA / official programme data — not a separate scraped directory.