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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Vellore Institute of Technology was founded in 1984 as Vellore Engineering College by
Dr. G. Viswanathan, a former Parliamentarian and Minister in the Tamil Nadu government. The
Deemed to be University status was conferred on 19th June, 2001 by MHRD Govt. of India
(No.F.9-2/99-U3. dt.19.6.2001). Currently, VIT has eco- friendly campuses in Vellore and
Chennai spread across 563.65 acres. From its humble beginning of 180 students, the institution
has grown exponentially to that of having 33,322 students and 1,744 faculty members in 2018-
2019. VIT attracts students from all the states and union territories of India and 60 different
countries owing to its academic excellence.
Soon after becoming the Deemed to be University the institution had gone for the first cycle of
NAAC accreditation in 2003 and second cycle in 2009. VIT underwent the third cycle of
accreditation in 2015 and was rated as A grade with CGPA of 3.42.
Some of the significant achievements of the institution in the last five years are:
• Received letter of intent for Institution of Eminence (IoE) status under private institution
category from MHRD.
• Ranked No.1 in Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA-2019)
among the private institutions.
• Consistently ranked in Top 20 in NIRF ranking under University and Engineering
categories since the inception of NIRF.
• Ranked by Times Higher Education World University Ranking, in the 801-1000 for the
last four years.
• Ranked by QS World University Ranking, 801-1000 for the years 2019 & 2020.
• In the Top 550 of the QS World University Ranking by Subject in 3 subjects: CS&IS,
EEE and Chemistry in the year 2019.
• ABET(USA) accreditation for 14 B.Tech Programs in Vellore and Chennai campuses
• MBA and BBA programs accredited by ACBSP (USA) and ACCA(UK).
• Web of Science (WoS) awarded the Research Excellence–Citation Award 2019 under the
Private University category, based on the number of most cited papers published during
the period 2012-2018.
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