NIFT Kannur has a modern 10-acre campus designed to support fashion education, creativity, and practical learning. Its distinctive eight-storey academic block houses spacious classrooms, computer labs, pattern-making and garment-construction labs, and a photography studio. A dedicated workshop block provides weaving, textile processing, printing, and material laboratories. The campus also includes a resource centre, hostels, canteen, auditorium, gymnasium, sports courts, and other essential facilities.

The two-year Master of Design (M.Des) programme, offered by the Department of Design Space, is specifically structured to address the complex, multidisciplinary nature of contemporary design. Rooted deeply in design thinking, rigorous research, and systematic innovation, the programme builds critical capabilities in sustainability, strategic design, and emerging technologies. It successfully prepares a new generation of designers, researchers, and strategists to navigate and innovate across diverse spatial, experiential, and systemic contexts.

The two-year Master of Fashion Management programme, offered by the Department of Fashion Management Studies, develops professionals for the business, management and strategic dimensions of the fashion industry. The curriculum integrates fashion marketing, merchandising, buying, retailing, sourcing, supply chain management, business analytics, brand and strategic management, global marketing, luxury fashion and entrepreneurship.