Vellore Institute of Technology
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Vellore Institute of Technology seal
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Former names
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Vellore Engineering College |
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Motto in English
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A place to learn; a chance to grow. |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1984 |
| Founder | Dr. G. Viswanathan |
| Chancellor | G. Viswanathan |
| Vice-Chancellor | Dr. Anand A Samuel |
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Academic staff
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1,500 |
| Students | 29,000 (Vellore campus) |
| Undergraduates | 20,000 |
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Vellore (1984) Chennai (2010), Tamil Nadu, India |
| Campus | Urban, spread over 250 acres (1.0 km2) |
| Acronym | VIT |
| Colours | Blue and White |
| Nickname | VITians |
| Affiliations | University Grants Commission ; Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology |
| Website | www |
VIT University or VIT, formerly called Vellore Engineering College, is an Indian institute of higher education and a deemed university under Section 3 of the UGC Act. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, by G. Viswanathan, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore and Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. A new 200-acre campus called VIT-AP located at Amaravati (the new state capital of Andhra Pradesh state) is under construction. Classes will be started in July 2017. N. Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and M. Venkaiah Naidu, a Union Minister, participated in the foundation ceremony. Foundation stone for VIT Bhopal campus at Sehore, Madhya Pradesh was laid down by Mr. Shivraj Singh Chauhan (Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh) on 20 October 2016.
VIT was founded as Vellore Engineering College in July 1984 by Dr. G. Viswanathan, a former parliamentarian and minister in the government of Tamil Nadu, with three undergraduate engineering courses — Civil, Mechanical, and Electronics & Communication.
The college was affiliated with Madras University. In 1999 Vellore Engineering College was awarded the ISO 9002 certificate for three years by Det Norske Veritas (DNV) of the Netherlands, making VEC the first educational institute in India to achieve this recognition. In June 2001 the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development conferred VEC as a ‘deemed university’ and the college became VIT University.
VIT University claims to admit students on merit basis through an online entrance exam. VIT organizes its own entrance exam, called the Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering Entrance Examination (VITEEE). It is conducted every year in the month of April and May. In 2015 over two lakh students or two hundred thousand students appeared for the entrance examination. The exam has been conducted online since 2013. The VITEEE has consistently been easier than other engineering entrance exams like JEE Mains (formerly AIEEE) and JEE Advanced (formerly IIT-JEE).
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