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• The project based learning methodology enables application orientation and enhances the

employability
• Laboratory components of the courses and mandatory six courses on soft skills contribute

directly for skill development

• About 97.84% of courses have direct focus on employability/entrepreneurship/skill
development

• The Fully Flexible Credit System (FFCS) adopted by VIT for all programmes provides
flexibility in terms of choosing the pace, courses, faculty member and time slot

• Students can register for courses across programmes to facilitate cross disciplinary

learning
• About one third of the credits are chosen by students as electives

• Students have option to earn additional minor and honour credentials
• Students can enroll for courses under SWAYAM for credit transfer

• New courses are introduced every year & about 35.92% of the courses offered in last 5
years are new courses.

• Courses on Ethics & Values and Environmental Studies are part of core courses.

• In the last 5 years, 265 value added courses were offered and 87% of students had
benefitted.

• Mandatory 4 weeks of industrial internship for all B.Tech students.
• In the AY 2018-19, 94% of students undertook field visit / research project / internship.

• Feedback from different stake holders are collected, analysed and appropriately

implemented while revising the curriculum and the course content.

Teaching-Learning and Evaluation

Highly qualified faculty members remain as the backbone for all the developmental trajectory of

VIT. The diversity of faculty members and their unrelenting focus on teaching and research
enabled to VIT realise the high requirements of modern day teaching-learning process.

• The strong feature of VIT is its ability to attract quality students in large numbers from all
over India and select parts of the world

• The average demand ratio in last five years for admission is 20.17

• The Fully Flexible Credit System (FFCS) permits slow learners to register for less credits
and advanced learners to register for more credits

• With 40% of courses following Project Based Learning pedagogy, the emphasis of the
teaching-learning process is on enhancing the learning experience

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