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Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design in Pune (UCEED)
The Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) is a national-level entrance exam conducted by IIT Bombay for admission to Bachelor of Design (B.Des) programs. It assesses a candidate’s aptitude for design, including visual perception, logical reasoning, creativity, and communication skills.

Career Path
- Product designers
- UI/UX designers
- Graphic designers
- Interior designers
- Fashion designers
- Animation designers
- Design researchers
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U-CEED 2025 Eligibility
Criterion 1 – Age limit:The 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.
Criterion 2 – Number of attempts: A candidate can attempt UCEED a maximum of two times, and that too in consecutive years. Note that the UCEED score is valid for one year and only for admissions in the same corresponding academic year.
Criterion 3 – Qualifying examination: A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2024 OR 2025 to be eligible for attempting UCEED 2025. Students from ALL STREAMS (Science, Commerce, and Arts & Humanities) are eligible.
Those who appeared for the first time in their qualifying examination (Class XII) in 2023 or earlier are NOT eligible to appear in UCEED 2025.

U-CEED Syllabus
UCEED 2025 will have two parts.
Part-A will have questions on the following topics:
• Visualization and spatial reasoning: Ability to visualise and transform 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships.
•Practical and scientific knowledge: Know-how of scientific principles and everyday objects.
•Observation and design sensitivity: The capacity to detect concealed properties in daily life and think critically about them. Attention to detail, classification, analysis, inference and prediction.
•Environment and society: General awareness of environmental, social and cultural
connections with design. •Analytical and logical reasoning: Ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative information.
•Language: Proficiency in reading and comprehending Standard English.
•Creativity: Grasp of verbal and non-verbal analogies, metaphors, signs and symbols.
Part-B will have questions on the following topics:
•Drawing: Ability to draw products, people or scenes in proportion with good line quality, composition, proportion, perspective and shading.
•Design aptitude: Capability to practically and appropriately respond to problems/situations with ingenuity and empathy.
•Note: The topics listed above are exhaustive and indicative of the nature of the questions. However, the UCEED 2025 may not cover all the topics.
U-CEED Colleges In India
IIT Bombay
IIT Guwahati
IIT Delhi
IIT Roorkee
IIT Hyderabad
IIT Indore
IIITDM: IIITDM Jabalpur.
Modules available at CCDS Institute
Type of Courses | Duration |
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2 Years Course | 3 hrs / once a week |
1 Year Course | 3 hrs / once a week |
3 Months Course | 2 hrs / thrice a week |
1 Month Course | 2 hrs / day |
2 Weeks Course | 4 hrs / day |
Drawing Material List to be bought by Students:
1. A4 Size Sketch book- 2 numbers ; 1 for Class-work, 1 For Home-work
2. Pencils:F,HB,H,2H,B,2B,3B,4B,6B,8B/9B
3. Colour Pencils- preferably DOMS
4. Rough quality paper.
Material provided by CCDS
1. Book
2. Practice sketches for references
3. Question bank for each topic separately
4. Test Series after completion of course with proper guidance and comments
5. Previous year question papers.
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