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NIFT Placements

A question that many candidates for NIFT ask me is - Where do NIFT students finally work ?

Well here is a list of placements that NIFT arranges or students arrange on their own. Please understand that this info has been collected from NIFT students and alumni all over India. I am not accountable for its correctness, in case somebody decided to give me wrong info. But let me assure you, everyone I asked had a decent level of sanity and as far as I know, the information is authentic and true.

Thank you to everyone who contributed! All the stuff I have written further is quoted from others.

PG placements
Hey, I’m working in United Colors of Benetton as a retail merchandiser for South east asia, enjoying my job to the fullest.
All the others are either working with brand or are in retail… doing good i believe. Companies where PG students got placed are -

GI, Shahi Exports, NIKE, Tommy, GAP, Li and Fung, Carrefour.

In india, PG students are placed very well in production as well as merchandising. After 3 yrs of experience in production, some of them are working as factory managers.

UG Technology placements
Well, the average package is around 2.8 per anum.
Students are hired as merchandisers, production managers, quality, retail.

Fashion Communication placements
I think most placements were in Visual Merchandising for Rs 20,000 average per month.
Ad Agency - JWT
Malvika Jain says - “Here are the companies that FC students have done internships in. So, you can get an idea of the possible jobs.
Styling and Fashion Journalism at magazines Elle, Marie Claire, F&A, Femina, Cosmopolitan.
Art person or Copywriter or Client servicing in Ad agencies like JWT, Ogilvy.
Graphic design at Whitelight, K factor, Illum design.

Photography with Ashish Chawla.
Visual Merchandising at Madura garments.”

Fashion Design placements

Students have completed NIFT and joined Manish Malhotra and Puja Nayyar. FD students are placed all over India…mostly export houses.

Many joined as junior designers and many got straight as head designers, visual merchandisers, graphic designers. Some joined NIFT as faculty, some freelanced and a few started on their own!

The students joined the following companies -

Color plus
Pantaloons
Madura
Arvind
Spykar
Jealous
Fabindia
Bandhej
London fog
W
Allen solly
Anokhi
Impulse
Richa exports
Triburg
Shahi exports
Much design studio
Landmark - Dubai
ITC wills
Reliance
Raymonds
Gini and Jony
Kimaya
Prateek apparel

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Leather Design Placements
Many LD seniors have been placed in export houses as designers. Students het jobs as leather apparel / accessory / product designers in the following companies -

-Alpine
-Crew BOS
-Century
-Bhartiya International
-Apolo
-Impulse

Textile Design placements
All are placed n doing gr8 with an avg. sal of 25k.
Students join not as junior designers, but as full fledged designers. They join the design team in the design studio and work there.
Madura, raymonds, ashima, arvind mills, portico, reliance, welspun,bharat vijay mills, bombay dyeing etc. along with numerous export houses

Knitwear Design Placements
You can eventually become a brand and a designer like Samant Chauhan.

I don’t have an idea about all of them. But yes, I can give the names of a few of them. One person is working with Gokal Das exports. Other companies are Impulse, Monte Carlo and ITC Wills. For internship students are gong to Orient Craft, United Colors of Benetton, Madura Garments, India Terrain, Peter England and Raymonds.

Accessory Design Placements
Mostly jewellery like gili, geetangili, unidesign
Then lifestyle products like elvy, magppie, jindals .. and i think one in adidas.