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Understanding the client A. National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) The Institute is a pioneer in envisioning and evolving fashion business education in the country through a network of fifteen professionally managed domestic centres at Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Jodhpur, Kangra, Kannur, Kolkata, Mumbai, New
Delhi, Patna, Raebareli and Shillong. NIFT has set academic standards and excelled in thought leadership by providing a pool of creative genius and technically competent professionals. The Institute provides a common platform for fashion education, research and training.
B. NIFT Mumbai NIFT Mumbai was established in 1995 to cater the garment industry in the commercial capital of India. With the objective of proactively catalyzing the growth of Fashion Business. NIFT- Mumbai has always remained true to its vision, growth and fashion business. With a multi-disciplinary approach for a more agile industry response. NIFT- Mumbai has included its professional education industry inputs in Design, Management and Technology in varying proportions. A common platform for interaction with industry and craft sector has been created as an intense and dynamic part of Curriculum at NIFT-Mumbai. NIFT students have successfully completed their various ‘study abroad’ programs at foreign fashion schools of acclaimed repute. This initiative by NIFT has given wider perspectives to our students who have then gone a step further and returned to the respective foreign universities for advanced studies. Craft Cluster initiative at NIFT Mumbai has built in collaborative partnerships in a mutually learning mode with various handloom and handicraft clusters in Maharashtra. NIFT has also integrated cluster activity with student curriculum and exposure to rural crafts for all programs in a project mode as a model of rural development has given a holistic approach to combing crafts and design in India. This activity has integrated the value Indian Crafts across design, management and technology programs.
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NIFT Faculty members are highly trained professionals from leading reputed fashion and design institutes, who bring to the classrooms wide exposure and years of hands on industry experience. During the course at NIFT Mumbai, the students undertake areas of research which are in tandem with the industry through which newer ideas and solutions for the modern fashion world are created. NIFT Mumbai has always enjoyed a close association with the apparel industry and through time has enhanced its responsiveness with collaborations like internships, projects, placements, etc. Continuing Education at NIFT Mumbai has further increased technical support to industries, trade bodies and educational institutes.
Degree courses offered at NIFT Mumbai cover all aspects of Fashion BusinessB.Des. (4 years undergraduate program) Departments of Fashion Design (FD), Knitwear Design (KD), Textile Design (TD), Fashion Communication (FC) B.F.Tech. (4 years undergraduate program) Fashion Technology (Apparel Production) M.Des. (2 years postgraduate program in Design Space) M.F.M. (2 years postgraduate program in Fashion Management)