Hidden Costs in Government Fashion Designing Programs: Hostel, Exam, and Miscellaneous Fees

Published by Shikha Kumari on Jun 05, 2025

Even the best fashion designing colleges in India have additional fees apart from their tuition fee. This difference is often not known by students, and they tend to set their budget in the wrong way. The top fashion designing colleges like NIFT, AIFD, etc. have a lot of extra charges attached to their fee structure. This article talks about all the extra changes like hostel fee, admission fee, exam fee, etc. 

Army Institute of Fashion and Design

AIFD Bangalore has a different fee structure for students who have an army background. The detailed breakdown is provided in the table given below. Apart from this, students who enrol for hostel facilities have to pay Rs. 3500 to avail hostel facilities, also, a cost of Rs. 6500 is charged for a uniform that is needed by all students. These additions increase the fee for fashion designing courses in India, even in top fashion designing colleges.

NIFT

NIFT is India’s topmost fashion design institute and ranks in the 9th position in the world. NIFT fee structure varies for NRI and Non-NRI candidates. The table given lists down the fee structure for Non-NRI students. The additions in the fee include library fee, exam fee, hostel charges, etc.

Allahabad university

The fee structure of Allahabad University is comparatively lighter than other colleges. The hostel fee of other colleges ranges between 80,000 – 1 lakh, whereas Allahabad University charges less than 80,000 for double and triple seater rooms, including mess and other charges. Let’s have a look at the detailed breakdown of the fashion design course college’s fee for 1st year.