IIT Delhi BTech in Design Programme for 2025

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is going to introduce a new four-year undergraduate programme, BTech in Design, from the 2025-26 academic year. It will be administered by the Department of Design and would provide students with technical skills and design thinking as well as training for socio-technical challenges.

To become eligible for pursuing the BTech in Design course at IIT Delhi, the candidates will need to appear and pass the JEE (Advanced) exam as well as the Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED). The students would be shortlisted on both the above national-level entrance exams. Passing either of the two exams is not enough for admission into the course.

Eligibility criteria

Applicants prepared to be a part of the program should have passed Class 12 or a similar entry test in 2024 or 2025. The eligibility also involves securing marks in minimum Physics, Chemistry, and Math. UCEED eligibility requires birth after 1st October 2000. Five years age relaxation in the case of Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Persons with Disabilities (PwD) candidates is admissible. Eligibility according to regulations of current standards of respective entrance tests. Procedure of application

Application through the official website of IIT Delhi admissions will be made. The candidates should ensure they have present valid scores in JEE Advanced and in UCEED prior to starting the procedure of application.

The moment application dates are made public, the students would register, fill in their information, and report about taking up the course BTech in Design. Submission of applications, counselling dates, and seat allotment dates would be made available on the website of the institute, and the candidates would continue to visit the site at regular intervals so that they are aware of each step of progress.

Programme structure

The program of BTech in Design shall be a four-year program with 155 credit requirement. The program will have an intake of 20 students in the first phase.

The first half of the program shall be from the core discipline of design, and the second half from interdisciplinary programs of other departments, centres, and schools of the institute.

The course offers design paradigms research, design prototyping, solid and fluid mechanics, environmental study, research methods, communication and team working, design entrepreneurship, and exhibition design. The course is centered on building a systematic method and problem-solving technique in design and professional and teamwork skills.

Implementation of this scheme is simultaneous with overall curriculum changes that are going to be introduced at IIT Delhi from the academic session 2025–26 for courses of B.Tech, M.Tech, M.Sc, and Ph.D.

The students under this scheme will enjoy greater freedom to select electives in every stream such as science, engineering, humanities, and management.

There will also be a Honours stream for BTech students, and if they wish to continue on postgraduate level, then there will be a combined BTech and MTech study in the third year, in which they will be awarded both degrees after five years.

In addition, the first-year students will now be experiencing direct contact with their parent departments, and the size of the first-year class will be smaller to facilitate more contact among staff and students. Moral, environmental, and creative aspects of learning and experiential learning will be given more prominence.