+ Important Dates
Activity |
Dates |
Online registration with regular fee |
September 30, 2022 to November 04, 2022 |
Online registration with late fee |
November 05, 2022 to November 11, 2022 |
Start date for Admit Card downloading |
January 13, 2023 |
Last date for rectification of discrepancies in the Admit Card |
January 17, 2023 (till 05:00 P.M.) |
Date and time of CEED 2023 |
January 22, 2023 (Sunday) 09:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon |
Release of draft answer key for Part-A and release of candidate’s response for Part-A |
January 24, 2023 |
Last date for uploading comments (if any) on the draft answer key for Part-A in the candidate’s portal |
January 26, 2023 (till 05:00 P.M.) |
Release of final answer key for Part-A |
January 30, 2023 |
Announcement of cut-off marks for Part-A |
February 09, 2023 |
Declaration of results |
March 7, 2023 |
Score Cards available for downloading |
March 11, 2023 |
Last date for downloading Score Cards |
June 13, 2023 |
NOTE: Please refer to the official CEED 2023 website (
www.ceed.iitb.ac.in) for the updates in dates, if any.
+ Programmes
CEED qualified students are eligible to apply for the MDes and PhD programmes in various institutes with the specializations as mentioned in the table below. Details of these programmes may be obtained from the websites of these respective institutes:
Institute and Programme(s) |
Contact Information |
Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, IISc Bangalore: - M.Des. in Product Design and Engineering - Ph.D. in Design |
Institute website: https://www.iisc.ac.in
Department website: https://cpdm.iisc.ac.in/cpdm
Email: chairman@cpdm.iisc.ernet.in, office@cpdm.iisc.ernet.in
Phone: +91-80-2293 2359 |
IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay: - M.Des. in Industrial Design, Communication Design, Animation, Interaction Design, Mobility and Vehicle Design - Ph.D. in Design |
Institute website: https://www.iitb.ac.in Department website: https://www.idc.iitb.ac.in Email: head.idc@iitb.ac.in, office.idc@iitb.ac.in Phone: +91-22-2576 7801, 2576 7802 |
Department of Design, IIT Delhi: - M.Des. in Industrial Design - Ph.D. in Design |
Institute website: https://home.iitd.ac.in Department website: https://design.iitd.ac.in Email: hoddod@admin.iitd.ac.in Phone: +91-11-2659 1431, 2659 6729 |
Department of Design, IIT Guwahati: - M.Des. in Design - Ph.D. in Design |
Institute website: https://www.iitg.ac.in Department website: https://www.iitg.ac.in/design Email: dodoff@iitg.ernet.in Phone: +91-361-258 2500, 258 2451 |
Department of Design, IIT Hyderabad: - M.Des. in Visual Design - Ph.D. in Design |
Institute website: https://www.iith.ac.in Department website: https://www.design.iith.ac.in Email: head@des.iith.ac.in Phone: +91-40-2301 7120 |
Design Programme, IIT Kanpur: - M.Des. in Design - Ph.D. in Design |
Institute website: https://www.iitk.ac.in Programme website: https://www.iitk.ac.in/design Email: head_des@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-512-259 7509, 259 6617 |
Department of Design, IIT Roorkee: - M.Des. in Industrial Design |
Institute website: https://www.iitr.ac.in Programme website: https://dod.iitr.ac.in Email: head@design.iitr.ac.in Phone: +91-1332-284 872 |
Note that qualifying in CEED does NOT guarantee admission to any programme. After qualifying, candidates must apply to the respective institutes for admission and fulfil other requirements such as tests and/or interviews of the respective institutes to become eligible for admission. The announcement for admission to the postgraduate programmes in design will be notified separately by these institutes. Candidates are advised to visit the websites of the respective institutes for information and application procedure for their programmes.
The UCEED-CEED Office, IIT Bombay does not provide information about the criteria for postgraduate admission and award of scholarship/assistance at different institutes. This information may be obtained from the websites of the respective institutes. For any specific queries on admission and programmes, the candidate should contact the head/convener/coordinator of design programme at the concerned institute. Any queries in this matter to the UCEED-CEED Office, IIT Bombay will NOT be entertained. This office will be sharing the candidate information with the result sharing institutes. The updated list of result sharing institutes will be available on the official CEED 2023 website.
+ Eligibility
Candidates must have completed a degree/diploma/post graduate degree programme of minimum THREE years (after 10+2 level), or must be appearing for the final examination of such a program by July 2023, or must have passed the GD Arts diploma programme (10+5 level) by July 2023.
Note that the eligibility criteria for admission to various institutes may differ from the eligibility criteria for appearing for CEED. Before applying for CEED, candidates are advised to check whether they meet the required eligibility criteria for admission to various institutes.
There is no age limit to appear for CEED. Also, a candidate can appear for CEED any number of times.
+ Examination Cities
CEED 2023 examination will be conducted in the following cities:
Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Delhi, Ernakulam, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, and Visakhapatnam.
Candidates should compulsorily choose THREE cities in the order of preference at the time of online registration. Once the registration form is submitted, request for a change of city will NOT be entertained.
If sufficient number of candidates are not available in a city, then that city may be dropped from the final list and candidates will be allotted to a city of their second or third choice. The UCEED-CEED Implementation Committee (UCIC) reserves the right to add a new city or remove an existing one and allot a city that may not be among any of the choices of a candidate.
Any request for change of a centre will NOT be entertained.
+ Registration
CEED registration form must be submitted ONLINE ONLY through the official website,
www.ceed.iitb.ac.in.
Registration fee:
- Rs. 1800 for all women candidates
- Rs. 1800 for (SC/ST/PwD) candidates
- Rs. 3600 for all other candidates
Note that this registration fee is non-refundable and non-transferable. The registration fee has to be paid through the payment option provided on the website, while submitting the registration form. Detailed instructions related to the payment of registration fee are given on the online registration portal. Credit card, debit card and net-banking options are available. The registration fee shown above does NOT include service and other charges and the processing fees that the banks may levy.
The normal registration fee shown above is applicable till the regular closing date of registration.
A late fee of Rs. 500 is applicable to ALL candidates for registrations submitted after the regular closing date. Please refer to the dates in section 1.2 of this brochure.
+ Admit Card
Admit Card will be available for downloading from the official CEED website (www.ceed.iitb.ac.in) from January 13, 2023 till the date of the examination. Please take a clear printout of the Admit Card before coming to the examination centre.
In case of any discrepancies in the Admit Card, please write to ceed@iitb.ac.in latest by January 17, 2023, 05:00 P.M.
+ Results
CEED result will be declared on this website on March 7, 2023.
The CEED 2023 Score Card can be downloaded from March 11, 2023 from Candidate portal. It is valid for a period of one year from the date of declaration of the result. For more details, refer the Information Brochure. The CEED 2023 Score Card cannot be treated as a proof of date of birth, category or disability status.
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