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Hi, I am Ishika. I have completed my 10th class. And my aim is to become a fashion designer from my childhood. I am now a little bit worried for which stream. Should I choose for fashion designing. Basically, my main goal is NIFT. Can you tell me. Can I do my 11th and 12th class in arts? I have keen interest in it.

As you have pass your 10th standard and your future aim is to become Fashion Designer then a candidate who has completed 10 + 2 with any stream from a recognised board with minimum 50% marks is eligible to appear in the NIFT entrance examination. So, as per your choice you can choose any stream in your 11th standard.

In order to become a fashion designer, you must complete your 12th standard at first. It can be in any stream like science/commerce/arts. You must secure at least 55% to 60% marks from a recognized board.

With this eligibility you can apply for admission in NIFT. The institute conducts an entrance examination to select the eligible candidates. Therefore, after qualifying the examination you will be eligilble to study fashion designing course from NIFT.

Let me inform you that you can choose any stream you like the most as because candidates from any stream can join NIFT for Fashion Designing course. Yes, definitely you can do your class 11th and 12th standard with Arts discipline and after completion of 12th standard with Arts discipline, you can join NIFT for Fashion Designer course without having any problem.

Aspirants who are interested to join National Institute of Fashion Designing can choose any stream in 11th standard as per their choice and interest because to appear in NIFT entrance exam there is no such criteria of a particular stream.
So you are eligible to opt for any stream.

Take art stream in 12th standard , then you are eligible to fashion designing course.

Fashion designing course details:-

Duration : 6 month

Fee: Rs 60,000

Some of the fashion designing colleges in India:-

National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kerala

National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

Pearl Academy of Fashion, New Delhi

Satyam Fashion Institute of Noida.

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Hi, I am Ishika. I have completed my 10th class. And my aim is to become a fashion designer from my childhood. I am now a little bit worried for which stream. Should I choose for fashion designing. Basically, my main goal is NIFT. Can you tell me. Can I do my 11th and 12th class in arts? I have keen interest in it.

NIFT offers Bachelor of Design (B.Des) and Bachelor of Fashion Technology (B.F.Tech) courses. Eligibility for a B.Des course is a pass in 10+2 in any stream from a recognized board and for B.F.Tech is a pass in 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics subjects from a recognized board. Therefore, it is better to choose the PCM stream after 10th to become a Fashion Designer from NIFT. Admission to the courses in NIFT is done through an entrance examination conducted by the NIFT. Duration of the both the above mentioned courses is 4 years. The NIFT website link is given Click Here

First you should complete your 12th standard examination. After completion of your 12th examination you will become eligible to study fashion designing course from NIFT.

You have two options either you can study Bachelor of Design(B.DES.) or Bachelor of Fashion Technology(B.F.TECH).

> If you complete your 12th with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics then you will be
eligible for Bachelor of Design and Bachelor of Fashion Technology both courses.
> If you complete your 12th with Arts then you will be eligible only for Bachelor of
Design course.

NIFT is National Institute of Fashion Technology and it is a premier institute for fashion course.

The institute conduct entrance test for admission in the various courses.

The candidates can select the stream in 12th std according to the course they want to pursue in bachelor degree.

For B.Des - Candidates passed 12th in any stream are eligible.

For B.F.Tech - It is mandatory that candidate must have passed 12th with PCM.

For detail information about examination pattern visit at http://www.nift.ac.in.

NIFT refers to National Institute of Fashion Technology and for admission in NIFT for pursuing degree course in designing one is required to qualify NIFT entrance examination.

Further for appearing in NIFT entrance examination for admission in bachelor degree course in designing i.e; B.Des you need to have completed your Class 12th with 50% marks in any discipline from a recognized board of education.

So as far as you are concerned about your eligibility to join NIFT after pursuing higher secondary school degree in Arts stream then I would like to let you know that you just not have to worry regarding the same as for admission in NIFT there is no requirement of a particular stream at any level of academics.

For more details regarding courses offered by NIFT and their respective admission criteria you can refer to the link www.nift.ac.in .