The Institute trains and provides full placement support to the students. The placement model at Institute is a four-stage process, involving pre-placement activities, career guidance, and executing placement and post-placement reviews.
In addition to providing placement support to the students, the institute also facilitates training of students in the organisations during summer and winter vacations, project work for the students in the final year, continuous institute-industry interactions, alumni activities, participation in exhibitions, fairs, seminars and conferences, counselling of the students on job opportunities, facilitating industry visits and inviting distinguished speakers.
After completing graduation, many students intend to pursue Master’s degrees in India or abroad. In the batch of 2018?2022, 46% of the students have gone for higher education, and among those, some have gone abroad to universities like Bow Valley College, George Brown College, OCAD University, Brunel University, Conestoga College, The Glasgow School of Art, Arizona State University and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Learning through internships and apprenticeships happens during the ten-week summer vacation period each year and it is a mandatory activity for all the students of each year. They do the internships in the Design Studios, Publication House, Retails Industry, Social Organisations, Advertising and Media Services, Computer Software, Manufacturing Industry etc. At the end of the foundation year, the students apprentice for four weeks. At the end of the second year, they intern for six weeks, After completion of the third year, they intern for eight weeks with an organisation in their chosen competency area. The eighth semester is Degree Major Research Project, in which students have to work with an organisation for 18 weeks. This project is pre approved by the Faculty mentor.
Organisations to name a few of this year internships are Wolffkraft Design Studio, Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation (LAMO), Sparrow Design Firm, Mad Umbrella Productions Limited, White Grape Communications Pvt. Ltd., Fingerprint Collective, Divya Bhaskar, Morphed Studios, Cranberry Design Studios, Navkar Events Pvt. Ltd, Godrej and Boyce, Auroville, Peacock Design.