COMMON ENTRANCE EXAM FOR DESIGN 2026
CEED website & Candidate portal maintenance
CEED website & Candidate portal will not be available on Saturday, 22nd November 2025, between 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, due to a maintenance activity. Any inconvenience is highly regretted.
MIT ID Indore - Avantika University joins CEED 2026
as one of the Result Sharing Institutes. MIT ID Indore - Avantika University, will admit students through CEED score to its M.Des. programmes for 2026-2027. For Eligibility Criteria and more details please visit their website.
GLS University, Gujarat joins CEED 2026
as one of the Result Sharing Institutes. GLS University, will admit students through CEED score to its M.Des. programmes for 2026-2027. For Eligibility Criteria and more details please visit their website.
Online Registration Dates Extended
The last date for online registration with regular fee has been extended till Wednesday, 5th November 2025.
The last date for online registration with late fee is 5 PM on Monday, 10th November 2025.
No further extension will be made.
Jain (Deemed-to-be-University), Bengaluru joins CEED 2026
as one of the Result Sharing Institutes. Jain (Deemed-to-be-University), will admit students through CEED score to its M.Des. programmes for 2026-2027. For Eligibility Criteria and more details please visit their website.
Mahindra University, Hyderabad joins CEED 2026
as one of the Result Sharing Institutes. Mahindra University, will admit students through CEED score to its M.Des. programmes for 2026-2027. For Eligibility Criteria and more details please visit their website.
CEED Candidate portal maintenance
CEED Candidate portal will not be available on Tuesday, 21st October 2025, between 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, due to a maintenance activity. Any inconvenience is highly regretted.
CEED Candidate portal maintenance
CEED Candidate portal will not be available on Wednesday, 15th October 2025, between 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, due to a maintenance activity. Any inconvenience is highly regretted.
Section 1.4 of the Information Brochure has been revised.
Please refer to the updated brochure for the latest programme details and contact information of participating Institutes.
The online registration for CEED 2026 will begin from October 01, 2025.
The online registration with regular fees will start from 5 pm. The deadline for the same is 31 October, 2025.
Note: Any request for change in the examination date and time will not be considered.
CEED 2026 examination will consist of two parts, Part-A and Part-B. Candidates must attempt questions from both the parts.
Part-A contains objective questions of three types: Numerical Answer Type (NAT), Multiple Choice Question (MCQ), and Multiple Select Question (MSQ). Answers to Part-A have to be given on the computer. These will be design aptitude type questions that evaluate visual and spatial ability, environmental and social awareness, analytical and logical reasoning, language, observation and design sensitivity of the candidates.
Part-B consists of five questions that are aimed at testing design, drawing and writing skills. The questions in Part-B will be displayed on the computer screen and the answers are to be written in the answer book provided by the invigilator.
The final score is calculated as follows.
Final score = 0.25 × Marks scored in Part-A + 0.75 × Marks scored in Part-B
A summary of the question paper structure is given in Information Brochure.
CEED 2026 Registration Form must be submitted through the online application website. Registration portal will open on October 01, 2025.
Please read the information given in the Information Brochure before filling out the form. If you face any problem while filling the form, you can report it by clicking the "Report Problem" button on the right side of the form.
PwD candidates can avail services of a scribe (amanuensis) for Part-A of the examination, but not for Part-B. See the information brochure for requisite forms and details.
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 2026, or must have passed the GD Arts diploma programme (10+5 level) by July 2026.
Admit Cards will be available for downloading from January 02, 2026 till the date of the examination. Please take a clear printout of the Admit Card before coming to the examination centre.
Please download and read the CEED 2026 Information Brochure, which contains important information, including:
CEED 2026 will be held in the following cities :
Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh/Mohali, Coimbatore, Chennai, Dehradun, Delhi, Ernakulam, Guwahati, Hubballi (Hubli), Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Panaji, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, and Visakhapatnam.
CEED result will be declared on this website on March 04, 2026.
The CEED 2026 Score Card can be downloaded from March 10, 2026 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 2026 Score Card cannot be treated as a proof of date of birth, category or disability status.
CEED qualified students are eligible to apply for the MDes and PhD programmes in various institutes. The CEED 2026 score is valid for a period of one year from the date of declaration of the result.
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 procedures 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 the 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 2026 website.
CEED 2026 Participating Institutes:
Information on the programmes may also be obtained from websites of the respective institutes as listed here. Revisit these pages from time to time for updates.
Candidates are also encouraged to visit the respective institutes and meet the students and faculty of Design programmes to discuss the eligibility requirements and programme details.
CEED 2026 Result Sharing Institutes:
Click on the following links to download the required documents:
CEED inquiries may be addressed to:
Chairperson,
UCEED-CEED Office,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai 400076.
Phone:
+91 22 2576 4063 / 9093 / 9094
(Monday to Friday, 09:30 – 17:30 hrs)
E-mail:
ceed@iitb.ac.in
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