National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) was set up in 1986 under the aegis of the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. Currently, NIFT has 16 campuses in which NIFT Kolkata is also one of them and it was started functioning in 1995. In initial days NIFT Kolkata began at a hired accommodation on Manjusha Bhavan, Salt Lake with limited facilities but with a strong team empowering the center and its success came in the form its transit campus at Plot- Salt Lake City, Kolkata. NIFT was set up by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, in technical collaboration with FIT, New York.
Currently, NIFT Kolkata offers the four-year undergraduate programme in Bachelor of design( in Six disciplines) and Bachelor of Fashion Technology in Apparel Production, as well as a two-year post-graduate programme in the Management (Master of Fashion Management).
Vision: To emerge as a centre of excellence and innovation proactively catalyzing growth of fashion business through leadership in professional education with concern for social and human values.
Mission: “To establish NIFT as a centre of excellence in fashion business education, a nodal agency for benchmarking fashion education in India and apex body for training of trainees in fashion business education”. With the above mission we endeavor to:-
There is a common placement schedule for all the setup NIFT at the selected venues of NIFT, companies were registered for campus placements offering for job vacancies across various programs/campuses and students registered for placements during campus placements at these placement venues. Recently, NIFT Campus Placements 2016 was held at 07 Campuses of NIFT viz. New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad. It was started from 22nd April 2016 to 4th May 2016. A total of 401 companies were registered for campus placements offering 2011 job vacancies across various programs/campuses in which total of 1709 students registered for placements during campus placements at these placement venues, of which 1470 students got placed.
| Type | Autonomous College |
| Name | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kolkata |
| Founding Year | 1995 |
| Area Covered | NA |
| Website | http://www.nift.ac.in/Kolkata/index.html |
| Address | NIFT Campus, Plot-3B, Block-LA, Near 16 No. Water Tank, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata City- Kolkata , State- West Bengal, 700098 |
| Landline | 033 23358872 / |
| Mobile Number | NA |
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| Founding Year | 1995 |
| Space Covered | NA |
| Total Students | 900 |
| Total Faculty | 0 |
| Total Staff | 0 |
| Institute Fees | 178000 |
| Sr. No. | Placement Year | Total Placed | Total Eligible |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2014 | 1355 | 1720 |
| 2 | 2015 | 1310 | 1573 |
| 3 | 2016 | 1470 | 1709 |
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