VIT acquires American Accreditation

Vellore Institute of Technology University (VIT), Vellore, has been granted American Accreditation said G. Viswanathan, its Founder and Chancellor, here on Monday.

He told press persons that after getting national accreditation from the National Board of Accreditation and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), the University thought of getting world accreditation to assess its own standard and quality of education. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology of USA has now given its accreditation. An expert committee from USA visited the VIT campus and have given the accreditation following their assessment, Mr. Viswanathan said.

He said the University is celebrating its silver jubilee this year and offers bachelor and masters degrees equivalent to that in Britain. It has collaborations with 82 universities in the world and Research and Development is the thrust area.

The University has introduced a Fully Flexible Credit System (FFCS) which is a pro-student method of giving credits to students. “In this system, an improvement over the Choice Based Credit System followed earlier, students can choose their subjects, their professors and earn as many credits as possible for the subjects they have chosen. We also teach Humanities and Science to engineering students in our University as we consider that they should have knowledge in these subjects also. One of the unique courses offered is that of Energy and Environment. This is done in collaboration with four universities, two of which are collaborative universities are from Europe," Mr. Viswanathan said.

Describing the cosmopolitan characteristic of the University, Mr. Viswanathan said there are 1,000 foreign and Non Resident Indian students studying in the campus apart from students from 45 countries and various north Indian states.

G.V. Selvam, Pro-Chancellor of the University said that students are also taught foreign languages such as German, French, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese languages. A Chinese Language Centre is also functioning at the University. Admission is through an all India entrance examination conducted by the University. About 1.48 lakh students appeared for the entrance examination in 2009.