UCEED Full Form, What is UCEED Exam, UCEED Exam is for What Purpose

UCEED Exam - Overview

What is UCEED Full Form?

The full form of UCEED is Undergraduate Common Entrance Exam for Design. The entrance exam is conducted by IIT Bombay every year. The UCEED 2026 exam date will be announced on the institute's official website - uceed.iitb.ac.in.

UCEED Exam is for What Purpose?

Undergraduate Common Entrance Exam for Design, or UCEED, is one of the most popular design entrance exams in India. UCEED entrance exam is conducted for undergraduate design courses offered at 7 IITs - IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee, IIT Indore and IIITDM Jabalpur. Along with IITs, UCEED exam scores are also accepted by some of the best private design schools such as BITS Pilani, VIT Vellore, FDDI.

What is UCEED Entrance Exam Eligibility Criteria?

To be eligible for the UCEED exam, it is mandatory for candidates to meet the eligibility criteria laid down by the concerned authorities. As per UCEED eligibility criteria, candidates should have passed all subjects in the qualifying examination (Class XII or equivalent) or should be appearing for the qualifying examination for the first time in the exam appearing year to be eligible for attempting UCEED.

Moreover, there is UCEED age limit, according to which candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 2000, if belonging to the OPEN/EWS/OBC-NCL category and born on or after October 1, 1995, if belonging to the SC, ST or PwD category.

What is UCEED exam syllabus 2026?

As per the UCEED syllabus, the UCEED entrance exam comprises of two parts:

• Part A includes topics like Visualisation and spatial reasoning, Practical and scientific knowledge, Observation and design sensitivity, Environment and society, Analytical and logical reasoning, Language and Creativity.
• Part B includes topics like drawing and design aptitude.

Number of Attempts in UCEED 2026

As per the official brochure, a candidate can appear for the UCEED entrance exam a maximum of two times, and that too in consecutive years. Moreover, the UCEED scorecard is valid for one year and only for admissions in the same corresponding academic year. After the result is declared, candidates must download the scorecard within the prescribed deadline.

What is UCEED exam registration fee?

At the time of filling out the UCEED application form, candidates were also required to pay the registration fee. The registration fee for the UCEED entrance exam is as follows.

Colleges Accepting UCEED Scores

The tables given below provide a list of colleges accepting UCEED scores

UCEED Colleges in India

List of Other Colleges Accepting UCEED Score 2026

• Ratan Tata Maharashtra State Skills University
• ATLAS SkillTech University, Mumbai
• Tezpur University, Assam
• University School of Design & Innovation, GGSIPU, New Delhi
• Ajeenkya D Y Patil University School of Design, Pune
• D Y Patil University School of Design, Pune
• RV University, Bengaluru
• O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
• Dr Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune
• Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
• B.Des. Programme School of Innovation, IIT Indore
• U. P. Institute of Design, Noida
• Delhi Technological University, Delhi
• CMR University, Bengaluru
• MIT Vishwaprayag University, Solapur
• VIT School of Design (V-SIGN), Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
• Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata
• Anant National University, Ahmedabad
• Navrachana University, Gujarat
• Lovely Professional University, Phagwara
• Department of Design, Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT), New Delhi
• Nitte (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru
• Footwear Design and Development Institute - Govt. of India.
• Somaiya School of Design, Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai
• Dr D Y Patil School of Design, Pune
• JS Institute of Design, New Delhi
• GLS University, Gujarat
• JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur
• MIT ID Indore - Avantika University
• Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra
• MODY University of Science and Technology, Rajasthan
• Department of Design, Shiv Nadar IoE, Delhi NCR
• Jain (Deemed-to-be-University), Bangalore
• Alliance University, Bengaluru
• Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal
• Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru
• Mahindra University, Hyderabad
• CEPT University, Ahmedabad
• Institute of Design, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
• School of Creativity, Rishihood University
• FLAME University, Pune
• BITS Design School