National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Courses & Fee Structure

NIFT Mumbai fees: what the 2027-28 schedule covers

NIFT Mumbai's current campus page lists five Bachelor of Design specialisations, Apparel Production in the Bachelor of Fashion Technology, and two postgraduate courses: Master of Design and Master of Fashion Management. The campus is in Navi Mumbai. The fee tables in the NIFT Prospectus 2027 are published by applicant route and year. The domestic schedule is headed for regular, artisan and ward-of-artisan candidates in the non-NRI category; it is not a separate Mumbai-only domestic rate card. The NRI schedule, by contrast, expressly places Mumbai in a higher-fee campus group. Check the route and category before using any total below.

The prospectus shows fees across academic years 2027-28 to 2030-31 and says NIFT may revise them. Treat these as the published schedule for planning, not a locked invoice. The current Mumbai admissions page and the NIFT admission portal should be checked for the fee demand and payment deadline attached to an actual seat allotment. The 2026-27 circular is useful for existing students' current semester charges, but it does not replace the 2027-28 entrant schedule.

Regular non-NRI schedule by semester

The table below transcribes the prospectus's regular, artisan and ward-of-artisan non-NRI schedule. “Academic fee” is the semester total before one-time payments. The total due column adds any one-time item printed for that semester; it does not add hostel, mess or personal study costs.

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Academic year	Semester	Academic fee	One-time payment in that semester	Scheduled total
2027-28	1	₹1,69,800	₹21,900	₹1,91,700
2027-28	2	₹1,50,000	-	₹1,50,000
2028-29	3	₹1,78,700	-	₹1,78,700
2028-29	4	₹1,58,000	-	₹1,58,000
2029-30	5	₹1,87,800	-	₹1,87,800
2029-30	6	₹1,66,000	-	₹1,66,000
2030-31	7	₹1,97,000	₹6,200	₹2,03,200
2030-31	8	₹1,74,000	-	₹1,74,000

For a student billed across all eight semesters on this schedule, adding the listed semester totals gives ₹14,09,400. That is a calculated schedule total, not a separately printed programme quote. The 2027-28 first-year pair totals ₹3,41,700, including the initial one-time items.

Tuition is ₹1,50,000 in each 2027-28 semester, then ₹1,58,000, ₹1,66,000 and ₹1,74,000 per semester in the following academic years. The table also lists annual library charges of ₹10,000, ₹10,500, ₹11,000 and ₹11,600; annual Mediclaim and student-development charges of ₹4,900, ₹5,100, ₹5,400 and ₹5,700; and an exam fee at those same yearly amounts. These annual items appear in the first semester of each academic year, with zero in the paired second-semester column, so do not add them twice.

Semester 1 includes a ₹12,600 refundable security deposit and a ₹9,300 one-time registration fee. The prospectus marks the alumni association membership fee as non-refundable: ₹6,200 is shown in semester 7 for the regular undergraduate schedule. Its footnote says the charge moves to semester 3 for a regular student in a two-year master's course. The table's one-time registration row does not state its refund treatment, so confirm the current payment rules rather than assuming.

Postgraduate, lateral-entry and NRI routes

For the Mumbai campus's M.Des and M.F.M, the prospectus footnote limits a two-year master's course to two academic years, 2027-28 and 2028-29, and places the alumni fee in semester 3. Applying those four semester rows and that footnote gives a calculated schedule total of ₹6,84,600: ₹1,91,700 in semester 1, ₹1,50,000 in semester 2, ₹1,84,900 in semester 3 after adding the ₹6,200 membership fee, and ₹1,58,000 in semester 4. Confirm the amount on the individual admission demand before paying.

The NIFT Mumbai admissions page describes lateral entry to B.Des in the second year for eligible diploma holders. That route should be costed from the separate NLEA table, which begins at semester 3, not from semester 1. Its 2027-28 semester 3 total is ₹1,91,700 including the ₹21,900 initial one-time payments; semester 4 is ₹1,50,000. The later semester totals are ₹1,78,700 and ₹1,58,000 in 2028-29, then ₹1,94,000 and ₹1,66,000 in 2029-30. Adding those six NLEA semester totals gives ₹10,38,400. The ₹1,94,000 semester 7 total includes the ₹6,200 alumni fee; the separate NLEA table does not mean every applicant is eligible for lateral entry.

For NRI candidates, the 2027 prospectus lists NIFT Mumbai with Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad and Kolkata. The 2027-28 annual academic fee, covering two semesters, is ₹9,98,000: tuition ₹9,07,000, library ₹52,500, Mediclaim and student development ₹33,600, and exam fee ₹4,900. First-year one-time payments add ₹21,900, comprising the ₹12,600 refundable deposit and ₹9,300 registration fee, for a printed first-year grand total of ₹10,19,900. This is a distinct NRI schedule, not the domestic rate plus a small surcharge.

Keep the NIFTEE application charge separate from tuition. The 2027 bulletin lists ₹2,000 for one programme in the Open, Open-EWS or OBC-NCL categories and ₹500 for SC, ST, PwD or PwBD; selecting both M.F.M and M.Des costs ₹3,000 or ₹750 respectively. It lists ₹11,100 for NRI, foreign-national, OCI, PIO and SAARC applicants. Payment-gateway charges and applicable GST are extra, and late applications have a further charge under the bulletin's calendar.

Aid, hostel and the costs still to confirm

NIFT's 2027 prospectus describes the SARTHAK financial-assistance scheme for regular students who meet its criteria and submit the required documents. It says assistance is subject to eligibility and NIFT approval, and is not an entitlement. The prospectus also points students to National Scholarship Portal awards, subject to each scheme's rules. Do not subtract a scholarship from the fee table until NIFT confirms an award for the student's category and year. The prospectus excludes NRI-sponsored candidates from NIFT financial assistance; read the category conditions if applying through that route.

NIFT Mumbai's campus page advertises hostel accommodation, but the cited 2027 academic-fee tables do not price hostel or mess. The page does not give a current 2027-28 hostel tariff or confirm room availability for an individual allotment. Ask the campus for the current hostel, mess, deposit and eligibility schedule before comparing the cost of living in Navi Mumbai. The academic tables also do not estimate personal project materials, commuting or other day-to-day expenses.

Before accepting a seat, keep three figures separate: academic charges for the programme and semester, any one-time deposit or registration payment, and costs that the available official sources do not price. Recheck the latest NIFT circular and the candidate's category on the payment portal. The prospectus explicitly reserves NIFT's right to revise its schedule, so the final demand notice controls what is payable.