S Sreedhar's Review On Vellore Institute Of Technology - [VIT University], Vellore

Standard admission. I have studied Masters of Science in Physics at Vellore Institute of technology passed out 2006.

I have given a brochure for that course at the inaugural of new admission students. The curriculum looks research-oriented in the paper. But, It is actually hyped up. The quality of research depends on the quality of people to be recruited. VIT needs to recruit more quality people for improving research and development.

In engineering, they provide internships who came top 10 or 20 in their entrance exam. but science there is no such fee waiver.

This is truly a game played by many institutes in India now. Mostly software and IT companies were coming to recruit jobs. Irrespective of their education they will provide IT/BPO job offer to the candidate. CTS, TCS, etc. company will recruit most of them on campus. I have seen some students who given an offer letter by some MNC and waited 10 -12 months for the appointment even after the course completion.

There are many college and inter-college events for engineering and a few for science. In my period they also conducted national level seminars like the National laser symposium, one material science symposium these are very useful at that time. It is a nice opportunity to get exposure to these fields with renowned scientists from premier labs of India.

At that time for science courses, the fee is feasible. I paid Rs. 30,000/- first year and 28,000/- second year. The private colleges charging 20,000 at the time (2004) so it is fine for paying 8,000/- more because of its infrastructure. But, for the engineering people they feel a bit costlier, 65,000/- (in the year 2004-06) and purchase laptop compulsory for IT and related courses (Rs.25,000/-).

Meritorious scholarships will be given who performed well in the exams. They are providing education loans in collaboration with an Indian bank.

Campus life is very nice. Infrastructure like labs, the library is good. VIT has good facilities for sports. I have seen several competitions were conducted year-round. At least one event per one/two weeks. Most of them are college-wide or inter-college competitions.

VIT has good maintained Alumni network. It is also conducted for yearly celebrations. It has one dedicated magazine for VIT alumni.

Exams and internals are frequent. But. I don't feel it is hectic. They conduct 3 internals out of that they choose best of two for evaluation for 50 marks. rest 50 marks from the final exam. I feel all the exams look like to test bookish knowledge, memory power, and writing running race (in exam) capabilities of the students.

I have mixed opinions in the case of faculty who thought of us. I will give the highest rank for who thought of mathematical physics to us (Prof. V. Somaraju). He actually thought of the science behind mathematics. I realized upon teachings how science can be written in mathematical language. Some faculties thought optical fibers, lasers, spectroscopy, and materials science were reasonably good.