Shiv Nadar University (Delhi NCR)

Bachelor of Design is a 4-year, future-oriented, trans-disciplinary program that uniquely curates knowledge and skills from Social Sciences, Arts, Engineering, and Management into Design. It was conceived after a year-long extensive and intensive consultation with prominent design experts & visionaries from academia and industry. It intends to equip students with core competencies for the 21st century and offers a choice-based streaming system, allowing students to specialize in the following domains:

1. Experience Design (UI-UX)
2. Product – System Design
3. Visual Communication Design

The program also offers students the option of pursuing a 5-year (4.1) Integrated B. Des.-M. Des. Degree with speciLizations in Experience Design (UX/UI), and Social Innovation for Sustainability.

B.Des. program is structured into 21 core courses, four choice-based streaming courses, four design projects, two summer internship, and a semester-long industry project.

The first year of the program covers foundational courses in design along with courses from social sciences covering applied fundamentals of society, culture, and psychology.

The second year of the program furthers foundational courses in design with technology-related courses, including applied electronics, software, coding, and a design project.

The third year of the program is focused on integrated courses like design research, design management, choice-based streaming courses, and two design projects.

The fourth year is for choice-based streaming courses in the 7th semester and industry projects in the final semester

• Product Modeling and Fabrication Studio
• Digital Design Studio
• Applied Electronics and IoT Lab
• Visual Design Studio
• 3D Printing Studio
• Virtual Reality Lab

• Focus on Human-Centered Design (HCD): Human-Centered approach to Design elucidates that the program is focused on designing for people and society. This approach allows designers to co-create better solutions by considering people’s needs not as individuals but as societies with complex, systemic problems.
• Future-Oriented Curriculum: Designers in the 21st Century are entrusted with increasingly complex and impactful challenges. These challenges require future-oriented courses (like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Virtual and Augmented Reality, etc.) and a set of future core competencies (like co-creation).
• Integration of 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes: Shiv Nadar IoE is home to an advanced and futuristic software platform from Dassault System that is integrated into design courses and projects of the B. Des. program. This is particularly very useful for students of the Product-System design stream.
• Choice-based Streaming and Specialisation Options: The program allows students to pursue their desired streams (for B. Des. Degree), and specialisations (for Integrated B.Des. – M. Des. Degree) by selecting from a range of elective courses.
• Vibrant and Multidisciplinary Ecosystem: Design programs relevant to the 21st Century must be centred on human well-being and quality-of-life issues, which must draw on the entire range of human knowledge and wisdom. The vibrant and multidisciplinary ecosystem of CCC (Common Core Curriculum) and UWE (University Wide Electives) courses links students with sciences, arts, and technologies available on its campus and through SNIoE networks.
• Low Faculty-Student Ratio: We offer an exemplary learning environment built on a close interaction between those who teach and those who learn. Our approach respects the understanding of design education as mutual learning and of the apprentice-mentor relationship and proximity to the real world of service that once gave Indian design education the strength to emerge as a global model.

B. Des. program prepares students for design practice in Industry where they are required to take multiple roles but excel in any one domain. To support this requirement, choice-based streaming options are available where a student may choose elective courses from the following domains of Design:

• Experience Design (UX/UI): The stream offers courses for the 21st Century that consist of a variety of courses like user experience design, IoT, interface design, information design, intangible interfaces, 3D modelling for virtual reality and augmented reality. The stream aims to train the students with a skill set of industry and future-oriented careers.
• Product – System Design: A product is not only an artefact in isolation but emerges as part of a system, culture, or environment. Product – System Design stream offers courses that enable students to take the system thinking approach to design and develop products which always appear as a part of the system or environment. Few of the courses in this stream are Smart Product Design, tangible interfaces, Mobility Design and system approach to product development.
• Visual Communication Design: The courses of the stream enable students to equip themselves with a set of skills to emerge as a communication designer with the understanding of visuals – their meaning and role in various communication mediums. This practice-oriented stream offers courses like interface design, campaign design, packaging design and animation.

The program is open for all 10+2 (or its equivalent) qualified candidates from any stream with a minimum of 65% aggregate marks in the best four academic subjects and English as a compulsory subject. Students appearing/awaiting their results can also apply, provided the required documents fulfilling minimum eligibility criteria are submitted at the time of admission. Candidates can apply through any one of the following admission routes. Last date to apply 31 March 2025.

Admission Routes	Eligibility for Application	Qualifying Exam	Shortlisting for Admission
Route 1	10+2 (with 65% aggregate marks in the best four academic subjects including English	UCEED 2025 score	Portfolio Review + Interview
Route 2		JEE with paper 2A	Portfolio Review + Interview
Route 3		SNUSAT	Portfolio Review + Interview
Route 4		Valid SAT Score	Portfolio Review + Interview

• Tution : 5,00,000/-
• Hostel : 2,14,000/-
• Total : 7,64,000/-