VIT Chennai - Vellore Institute of Technology

VIT University, Chennai was established in the year 1984. The College was started as a self financed Institute and was known as Vellore Engineering College. In the year 2001, the college gained the University status. The campus spreads over 177 acres of land. VIT University offers undergraduate (B.Tech/B.Sc Fashion Designing), Integrated (BA LLB/BBA LLB), postgraduate (PG Science/MBA/MCA/M.Tech/LLM) and research courses. VIT University is also approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC).

Location:

VIT University is located at Kelambakkam - Vandalur Road, Rajan Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Vengadamangalam Bus Stand is 5.2 km away from the University. Urappakkam Railway Station is 11.5 km away and Chennai International Airport is 27.5 km away from the University. Students can take a taxi or a bus to reach VIT University Chennai.

Accreditations and Collaborations:

• VIT University, Chennai is accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).

Collaborations:

• MAGES Institute of Excellence, Singapore
• Anyang Institute of Technology, China
• Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Ethiopia
• Asia University, Taiwan
• Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan
• Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
• Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
• Poznan University of Technology (OUT), Poland
• Universidad de La Salle , Colombia, USA
• Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
• The University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Dublin City University, Ireland
• École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de Caen, ENSICAEN, France
• Brunel University, London
• University of Missouri-Colombia, College of Engineering, USA
• The University of Northampton, UK
• TCS
• Wipro
• Cognizant

Club, Committees and Societies:

• Arts and Cultural Clubs:
  • Event Managers Club: This Clubs brings out the management skills of the students by organising various events and activities.
  • Dance Club VITCC: This club deals with dance art forms both regional and western. It also gives an opportunity for students to perform.
  • Debate Society: This Society organises debate competitions and also conducts various lectures and speeches in events.
  • Dramatics Club: VIT conducts stage plays, street plays, mono-acting and acting workshops in this club. This Club is for theatre lovers and nukkad enthusiasts. It also believes drama is fun.
  • English Literary Association: This Club helps students who are interested in English literature and want to gain insight on the history of this language. The club also provides a platform for students to showcase their literary skills and help other students who are interested in English.
  • Music Club: This Club imparts musical knowledge to the students who are interested in music. Guitarists, keyboard players, bassists, drummers, violinists, and vocalists are part of this club.
  • Photography Club: This Club provides a platform for all photographers and students who are keen to learn photography. Students can share their ideas, vision, photographs and technical knowledge with the interested.
  • Quiz Club: This Club helps to establish quizzing as a mind sport among university students.
  • Fine Arts Club: VIT organizes workshops on script-writing, cinematography, movie-making, movie-analysis and other activities related to the appreciation of films.
  • Arignar Anna Tamil Mandram
  • Designers Club
  • Yoga Club: This Club helps students to take up a healthy lifestyle by giving them yoga training. Yoga education helps in self-discipline and self-control, which leads to awareness, concentration and gives a higher level of consciousness. Yoga sessions are arranged regularly to give knowledge on how to have good health, practice mental hygiene, possess emotional stability, integrate moral values, and attain a higher level of consciousness.
  • Culinary Club: This Club is for the students who are interested in cooking and want to show their talent in culinary activities.
  • VITC Film Society
  • Telugu Literary Association: This Club helps students who are interested in Telugu literature and want to gain insight on the history of this language. The club also provides a platform for students to showcase their literary skills and help other students who are interested in Telugu.
  • Culture and Heritage Club: The main focus of this club is about important cultural and natural heritage.
• Sports and Fitness Clubs:
  • Trekking Club: This Club promotes hiking, trekking, camping, mountaineering, and allied open-air activities. This Club also conducts several substantial events on marathons, triathlons, environment awareness drive and conferences that inspire the students to take up a sport and outdoor activities. The Club also conducts regular treks, runs, cycling events, swimming events and camping on a regular basis.
  • Sports Club: This club helps students achieve a healthier lifestyle cope with a studious environment. VIT has various centres for physical education and sports activities to help students maintain physical fitness. It has numerous outdoor playgrounds and indoor courts are spread over a vast area.
• Social Clubs:
  
  • National Entrepreneurship Network (VIT NEN) Club: This Cell encourages and nurtures a culture of entrepreneurship in the society by inviting different entrepreneurs and speakers to share their experiences.
  • Uddeshya VIT Chennai: This is a social outreach organisation and its motto is "Empowering Youth- Fueling Change". It provided a platform for potential students to implement their ideas and work as community leaders to address various issues.
  • Women's Development Club: This Cell ensures that there is no gender discrimination at college premises.
  • Youth Red Cross: This Club aims at utilising the potential of the youth by giving them correct information on Mental Health, Substance abuse, Nutrition, and reproductive & Sexual health.
  • Health Club: This club ensures that the students are getting proper knowledge of good health and nutrition. Students also get support services that provide basic life skills for healthy living. This club promotes effective learning by supporting students to increase their knowledge and understanding of health issues and guide them to adopt positive behaviours to prevent poor health.
  • Viteach: This is a non-profit organization that works towards the welfare of underprivileged kids. Their basic aim is to reach out to the children of Chennai and to teach English as well as speaking and communication skills to the children in the orphanages.
  • Rotaract Club: This Club is a dedicated student community that shares a passion for community service and friendship whilst focussing on improving the lifestyle of the underprivileged. Rotaract Club develops leadership and professional skills.
  • National Service Scheme: It creates social awareness and imparts human values in students and creates a spirit of social service amongst them.
  • Energy and Environmental Protection Club: This Club aims to work at a ground level, to protect and conserve the environment and make students take up responsibility on matters related to "Blue Planet".
  • Enactus Club
• Technical Clubs:
  
  • Android Club: This Club is for the students who are interested in android developing. Students can use Android, Chrome, Drive, and Google Cloud platforms, to product APIs like the Cast API, Maps API, and YouTube API for developing applications.
  • Civitek: This is the Civil Engineering Club of the College. It deals with the concepts and principles related to building environment as well as technological process.
  • Code Y-Gen: This Club was created to help programmers cherish themselves in the world of algorithms, computer programming, and programming contests. This Club helps in learning to host a programming contest and face challenges related to programming. It also aims in training sessions and discussions related to algorithms, binary search, technicalities like array size and the likes.
  • Linux Club: The aim of this club is to spread awareness about free/open source software among the students. This Club also conducts installation fests.
  • Robotics Club: This Club provides a base for students who are into robotics to progress and contribute to this field. This Club helps to facilitate students to understand, design and learn robotics and also provides efficiency in the field of robotics, control, and automation; and to expand the scope beyond VIT.  
  • Eureka-Physics Club: This Club is for the students who are interested in learning new concepts and phenomena of physics.
  • Aerospace Club
  • Open Source Programming Club
  • Data Analytics Club: This is an analytics club that promotes the learning and application of data analytics in strategic decisions.
  • Open Foam CFD Club:
  • Aerodynamics Club: This Club is for the aero enthusiasts and gives training to them on various models of flight, training in RC simulator and real flight mechanisms. Students are trained to become skilled flyers.
  • VITCC Network and Communication Club:
  • Game Development Club: This Club aims at inculcating a gaming environment for the students who are interested in gaming. This Club helps facilitate the development of skills related to game development and other important domains of modern computing to give the students a competitive edge in the modern computing industry.
  • Microsoft Innovation Club