New Delhi: The Department of Design at IIT Delhi will offer a new four-year undergraduate programme ‘B. Tech. in Design’ from the academic year 2025–26.

Admission to the B. Tech. in Design programme will be based on JEE (Advanced) rankings. However, aspirants will also have to qualify in the design aptitude test, UCEED (Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design).

This is a unique programme crafted especially for empathetic and creative minds intent on understanding socio-technical systems around them and designing solutions for the wicked problems in these systems.

Students pursuing B. Tech. in Design will learn about prevalent technologies, systematic design thinking processes, research methods for analyzing socio-technical systems, communication and presentation skills, and teamwork.

This is a transdisciplinary programme of combining the strengths of technology and design. It promotes a unique combination of learning processes namely systematic discovery and understanding as engineering education does and exploration of individualistic and creative leaps as design education does.

IIT Delhi has a large number of departments/centers/schools specializing in science, engineering, management, humanities, social sciences, and policy. Being a part of this larger ecosystem, this programme in Design and its curricula is expected to harness the existing strengths of the Institute as well.

The programme would offer courses, with about half of the courses belonging to the core discipline of design and the rest coming from other departments, centers, and schools (similar to the other B. Tech. programmes). The programme curricula will pave the way for easy collaboration and partnerships between the design department and other departments/centers/schools.

The B.Tech. in Design programme at IIT Delhi will have a strong focus on product design. The aim is to prepare the students in such a way that at the end of the programme they are confident in using design as a vehicle to address problems in industry and society.

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