VIT-AP Inks MoU with Alphabeta Inc. and Topxight Research Labs
March 3, 2021: VIT-AP University recently entered into an agreement with Alphabeta and Topxight Research Labs with an aim to combine academic rigour with hands-on training.
Alphabeta is a US-based firm providing goods and services to banks and financial services organisations. When addressing the crowd, Vice-Chancellor of VIT AP University Dr SV Kota said, "FinTech is transforming business structures and financial models in a way that has never been seen before. There is a tremendous appetite around the globe for trained FinTech practitioners. VIT-AP University meets this demand with a BBA curriculum specialising in FinTech. Our emphasis is on balancing intellectual rigour with practical teaching. Students will collaborate on real-life projects using the new technology on the Alphabeta tool. At the conclusion of the programme, students will also be able to study current topics, construct innovative business/financial models and create patents. Students completing BBA Fintech will work in banks and financial services such as Blockchain Expert, Blockchain App Developer, Financial Analyst, Data Scientist-Finance, Business Analyst, Process Analyst, Compliance Manager, Product Manager and Business Development Manager.”
VIT AP Announces Merit Scholarships for Non-Engineering Undergraduate Course Students
February 17, 2021: Vice President, VIT University Dr Sekar Viswanathan has recently declared a GV Merit Scholarship and a Tmt Rajeswari Ammal Merit Scholarship to non-Engineering undergraduate students. The goal of the scholarship is to assist candidates participating in BBA, Law, BCom, BSc and BA programmes, in addition to the flagship USR activity and STARS programme.
The GV Merit Scholarship is for any board topper across the country. Under this scholarship, the recipient will earn a 100 per cent scholarship for all years of the undergraduate degree.
The eligibility criterion for the Tmt Rajeswari Ammal Merit Scholarship is that the candidate must be a district topper from any state across the country. The recipient is eligible for a 50 per cent tuition fee waiver for all years of the degree programme. If the district topper is a girl, she will earn an extra 25 per cent scholarship (making it a 75 per cent scholarship).
These two merit scholarships will be used for all the eligible students who have been accepted to undergraduate non-engineering programmes in the academic year 2021. The application process will commence on February 17 and the last date to apply for the admission is May 31.
VIT-AP School of Law Inks MoU with Centre for Human Security Studies (CHSS)
February 9, 2021: VIT University, AP School of Law recently entered into an agreement with the Centre for Human Security Studies (CHSS) with an aim to work committedly for the cause national security.
Chief Guest Ch Dwaraka Tirumala Rao said that both organisations must share principles and proposals to protect nations from different security threats. Threats ranging from cyber security, wellness, coastal security, and mainly internal security, to address specific policy and legal problems. Without consistent policies and legal guidance, it is impossible for the powers to communicate with and defend the citizens of this region. The VIT-AP University and the CHSS should bear in mind that these issues need to be discussed in a simple and centred manner.
In his speech, Dr SV Kota Reddy, Vice-Chancellor of VIT-AP University, highlighted the commitment of the university to the development and advancement of education and urged law students and faculty to work for the progress of society. He emphasised that the University is committed to the creation of the Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security and Law. This centre will operate holistically to offer better alternatives to society, and it has informed the value of the centre and its reach.
VIT Opens Admin Office at Hyderabad
February 5, 2021: VIT University, AP recently announced the launch of its new admin office in Hyderabad. The goal of the Center is to promote prospective applicants, parents as a knowledge centre and to cooperate, establish corporate ties with IT, tech and core companies. For the first class of BTech candidates, VIT-AP had stellar placements with several offers for many applicants. Also worth noting are more than 76 companies offered 440 placements this year, as reported by Dr Sekar Viswanathan, Vice President, VIT.
The University invited Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary to the Government Industries, Commerce and IT, Telangana State as the Chief Guest of the event. In his speech, the Chief Guest praised VIT's attempts to reach out to prospective students and parents and to cultivate close corporate ties with IT, tech and core state-owned firms.
Dr SV Kota Reddy, Vice-Chancellor at VIT-AP, outlined how the whole teaching-learning process at the university is focused around the seven schools delivering UG, PG, Five-Year Comprehensive Programmes and Study Programmes. The BTech Admissions are based on the VITEEE Ranking.
VIT-AP School of Business has international credit sharing agreements with the University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA (UMD) and Arizona State University, USA (ASU) leading BBA from UMD and BS Business Analytics from ASU. The school offers BBA (with option 2+2 to begin at the University of Michigan at Dearborn), BBA in Business Analytics (with option 2+2 to continue at Arizona State University).
VIT-AP School of Law (VSL) is a foray into contributing to the social innovative paradigm of VIT-AP. Students get an opportunity to provide legal services to entrepreneurs and start-ups, and supporting the developing of cutting edge technologies with the five-year integrated BBA, LLB (Hons) and BA, LLB (Hons) programme.
VIT- AP University Felicitates 11 Unsung Heroes
February 4, 2021: On Tuesday, VIT University, AP congratulated APSRTC drivers B Krishna Rao and D Hanumantha Rao on 72nd Republic Day Celebrations along with six fire services personnel and three police personnel for saving people's lives by faithfully discharging their duties. Vice-Chancellor Dr A Vishnu Vardhan Reddy of Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Government of Andhra Pradesh unfurled the 100ft national tricolour and awarded 47 academic excellence awards to students for the academic year 2019-20 and 15 awards to faculty and staff winners of cultural competitions.
Chief Guest commended the university authorities for preferring the Republic Day to congratulate Unsung Heroes for their selfless contribution to mankind under the responsibility of the University of Social Responsibility. Engineering and agriculture should work together to reach optimum output, thereby doubling farmers' incomes. He also shared his desire to work together in the agri-engineering field for the good of the farming community.
The Eleven Unsung Hero's have won these honours and a grant of Rs. 25.000 each.
Placements Update: University Reports 7,403 Job Offers in Total for all Four Campuses
December 22, 2020: Despite the difficult times due to the global pandemic situations, all four campuses of VIT University – Amravati, Vellore, Chennai and Bhopal together reported more than 7,403 job offers rolled out by 382 companies through virtual campus recruitments. Basis the reports released by the Founder and Chancellor of VIT University G Viswanathan, as many as 4,503 students have received multiple job offers.
VIT-AP University’s first batch will be graduating in May 2021. The placements season this year started in July 2020 and will last till May 2021. As on today, the campus has reported 419 job offers made by over 73 renowned companies. All of these, right at the beginning of the season, have secured Super Dream offers (CTC of Rs 10 lakh and above per annum). Harsh Vardhan Kushwaha, BTech CSE Student specialising in Networking and Security has got the highest offer of Rs 20 lakh per annum from CommVault.
Some of the top recruiters include Amazon, Philips, Volvo, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citi Bank, Barclays, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Honeywell, Robert Bosch, Shell, Tekion, Sabre, Akamai, Societe General, Nutanix, CommVault, Health Rx, ARM, Amadeus, Oyo, VMWare, Optum, Pharmeasy, Tata CliQ, Axis Bank, etc.
Dr SV Kota Reddy, the Vice-Chancellor, stressed that the final semester of VIT-AP is the Cooperative Education Programme (Co-op) aimed to benefit students from placements perspective. This Co-op brings students the opportunity to discover and refine their future career path. The student's experience of this long internship period narrows the gap with the industry, creates important industry contacts, broadens their viewpoints on the work front, and acquires the expertise and information needed to confront the real world. This prepares them for challenging positions in the industry.
VIT-AP University Conducts International Conference on Applications of Fluid Dynamics (ICAFD)
December 15, 2020: The Amaravati-based VIT University, AP recently held a three-day online International Conference on Applications of Fluid Dynamics. This ICAFD-2020 meeting was the fifth in a series of International Conferences that aimed to establish a leading international forum that brings together Scientist, Engineers and Industrial experts to present the latest advances and inventions in the fields of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and explore path-breaking advancements and problems in order to choose alternative paths.
ICAFD 2020 invited resource persons from countries such as USA, Australia, UAE, Singapore and South Africa and from reputed Universities such as IIT, NIT, VIT and Central University from India. The conference was the result of a long collaborative effort between the School of Mechanical Engineering, VIT-AP University and the Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Out of the total 175 participants, 100 presented their research papers among which 25 were from the USA, Canada, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaysia, UAE, Singapore, West Indies, Australia and the rest of the papers were from different states of India which included IIT’s, NIT’s, Central Universities, etc.
Founder VIT University Inaugurates the Academic Staff College
November 20, 2020: Early today, Dr G Viswanathan, Founder and Chancellor of VIT University, AP, virtually inaugurated the Academic Staff Campus. He said during his address that VIT-AP University had launched the Academic Staff College (ASC) to understand the connection between the commitment of teachers and the quality of education. Via comprehensive orientation of particular topics, strategies and methodologies, ASC would improve faculty motivating skills and expertise and thereby instil in them the principles that will, in turn, enable them to take ambitious and imaginative job initiatives.
GV Selvam, Vice President, VIT-AP University, said that ASC will provide continuing education through FDP/MDP and skills growth services for our faculty and staff members to Equip, Improve and Succeed in their professional careers.
VIT-AP University Appoints Dr SV Kota Reddy as Vice-Chancellor
November 16, 2020: VIT University, AP recently appointed Dr SV Kota Reddy as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University.
Dr D Subhakar handed over the charge to the new incumbent at a basic function. When speaking at the meeting of faculty and staff members of VIT-AP University, he encouraged faculty members to concentrate on research studies and demanded staff to provide full assistance to students in order to achieve better facilities.
Dr S V Kota Reddy holds a PhD from IIT Bombay in Mechanical Engineering. Before this, he was the President of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai Campus. He leads a variety of disciplines in the path of excellence to ensure continuous delivery of quality education with more than 30 years of teaching, study and managerial experience in India and abroad. He has been responsible for defining and developing student exchange programmes through partnerships with different universities across the globe.
On this occasion, he met with the heads of the university departments and provided instructions for the smooth provision of services to the students especially in the conduct of classes and examinations in the prevailing circumstances. He told the university to follow the government's instructions specifically from time to time.
VIT AP University Launches VIT-AP School of Law
September 10, 2020: VIT University, AP invited Chief Justice of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Justice Jitendra Kumar Maheswari over a virtual session to inaugurate the VIT-AP School of Law. The school would operate on the same campus as that of VIT AP.
During his speech, Chief Justice Maheswari expressed his views on the emerging need for new Law Schools to ensure the holistic development of the students and to ensure enough supply of global legal professionals.
University also invited Justice C Praveen Kumar and Justice T Rajani, Judges of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh to participate in the inaugural session of Legal Aid Clinic and Moot Court Hall. At the opening ceremony, the judges stressed the importance of clinical law training to law students. They also stressed that students should plan to take the legal profession seriously and begin litigating with the other possibilities for students today.
Vice President VIT University GV Selvam and Vice-Chancellor Dr D Subhakar in their welcome speech addressed the audience by assuring to stand up to the expectations of parents, students and all legal fraternity in India. The session was witnessed by students, parents, legal fraternity, lawyers from reputed legal firms, senior advocates of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Supreme Court, legal academia and university faculty and staff
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Vellore Institute of Technology-AP (VIT-AP) admissions are open for the academic year 2025. The application portal is open for VITEEE exam and tentative dates are released on the official website. Eligible candidates can apply on the official website for the respective courses.
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Yes, it is worth pursuing BTech at VIT Andhra Pradesh as it is one of the leading universities to deliver quality education to students and is approved by the UGC. The university offers a BTech programme to students at the UG level in various specialisations such as Computer Science Engineering, Mec
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VIT Andhra Pradesh BTech course admission is subject to VITEEE exam 2025. Candidates must apply for the VITEEE exam on the official website of the exam.
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The course fee of the BTech programme offered at VIT Amaravati ranges between INR 4.9 Lacs and INR 7.8 lakh. The university offers a wide range of courses to students at UG, PG, and PhD levels. The university is mainly concerned with streams such as Engineering, Business and Management, Law, Humani
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VIT-AP University accepts the in-house entrance exam VITEEE-Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering Entrance Examination. VITEEE exam syllubus is designed to test the aptitude of candidates in subjects like Mathematics/Biology, Physics, and Chemistry, similar to the JEE Main but slightly easier.
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The cutoff 2024 for BE/ BTech courses shows that the last round closing ranks for General category students ranged between 3413 and 30482.
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