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• 70.59% of schools of the institution are recognised by funding agencies such as DST-

FIST, DBT, ICSSR, ICMR.
• VIT Technology Business Incubator (VIT-TBI) was established in March 2003 with

funding assistance from DST and supports Innovative Technology start-ups.

• The institution has been using Turnitin software for plagiarism check since 2009.
• VIT has 203 vibrant clubs and chapters to facilitate active co-curricular student life.

• The Centre for Sustainable Rural Development and Research Studies (CSRD&RS) takes
care of outreach activities of VIT.

• VIT played lead role in projects like Clean Vellore Project, Clean Palar River, Green

Vellore Project, Village Resource Centre, Village Knowledge Centre, Swachh Bharat and
Vellore smart city.

• Some of the tangible research and extension outputs in the last five years are

o Enrolment of 340 JRFs, SRFs and research fellows

o 16 research projects of sanctioned value Rs. 452.31 lakh from non-government

agencies
o 302 research projects of sanctioned value Rs. 7268.18 lakh from government funding

agencies
o Successful incubation of 25 start-ups

o 122 Patents published / awarded
o 1151 Ph.D degrees awarded

o Total number of Scopus Indexed journal publications is 13189

o Total number of Books, Book Chapters and Conference Publications is 8799
o The current Scopus ‘h’ index (2019) of the Institution is 102

o Average citation index and h-index in Scopus/ Web of Science during last five years
are 4.89 and 69.5 respectively

o Scopus i-10 index 4054
o Revenue generated from consultancy and corporate training is Rs. 291.78 lakh

o 411 extension and outreach programmes conducted with about 77.6% of students

participation
o 93 functional MoUs are signed with institutions, other universities and industries

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