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Visvesaraya National Institute of Technology - [VNIT]

South Ambazari Road, Nagpur, Maharashtra   |   ESTD : 1960   |   Approved By: UGC   |  AICTE   |   Type: Public
0 Reviews   |   9422802995,0712-2224123, 2231636   |   registrar@vnit.ac.in, dr_acd@vnit.ac.in
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About College

VNIT is one of the best technology universities in the Vidharba region today. The institute was given deemed university status by the government on 26th June 2002 under the University Grants Commission Act, 1956.

In 2007, the Govt. declared VNIT as an institute of National importance along with the National Institutes of Technology.

  • Initially the university was known as Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering
  • The deemed university has been named after the famous personality of Sir M. Visvesvaraya
  • The university has been named as an institute of National pride by the government of India
  • The motto of the university is ‘Excellence in action is yoga’
  • The university has been ranked as one of the best in the top 15 technology universities of the country
  • Spread over 200 acres of land

Alumni

  • Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar, Scientist, Founding Director of C-DAC
  • Ramesh Jain, Bren Professor of Information & Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine
  • Pradeep Kar, Chairman and Founder of Microland
  • Samir Barua, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Research

On-Going Projects:

  • Multi user real time shared access platform for remote
  • Experimentation
  • Software Defined Radio (SDR)-Architecture, System for 3G Creation of machine translation tools and resources for English to Dravidian languages

Placement Description

Placement Records

Reputed companies visit the campus every year & recruit eligible students from the campus.

  • Around 82 companies visited the campus
  • 354 jobs were offered to UG & PG students

Some of the visited Recruiters:

  • Mahindra
  • Pepsico
  • Barclays
  • Deloitte
  • Bharat Petroleum

 

Extra-Curricular

 

The university has always believed that extracurricular activities are required for the complete growth of a student & to relive the student of the mental stress from a large amount of studies.

These activities include:

  • Prayaas
  • V-Live
  • E-Cell
  • Aarohi

Festivals

 

The largest festival which the university hosts is by SPIC MACAY, which promotes classical Indian music, dance, and culture.

 

Facilities

Hostel
  • The hostel is divided among boys hostels and girls hostels.
  • There are 12 boys and 2 girls hostels
  • Ragging is strictly not tolerated either on the university campus or on the hostel premises

Library

The library at the university is equipped with some of the best books on technology that can be found at any technical university in India.

  • General Collection of 68182 books
  • CDs – 971
  • International (Society Publications) – 59
  • National - 49

Rankings

Ranked among the top 30 Engineering institutes by outlook magazine.

Scholarships

The university offers 51 scholarships to its students

  • Loreal India For Young Women In Science Scholarship Programme up to Rs. 2,50,000 per year.
  • Fair & Lovely Foundation For Women scholarship up to Rs. 1 lac.
  • OP Jindal Engineering Scholarships up to Rs. 80,000 Yearly.

College Infrastructure and Facility


Entrance Exam

Student Discussion

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    DEBOSMITA BAIDYA 2016-09-02 23:28:46

    If I haven

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      SHIVANG VERMA 2016-09-10 22:38:12

      No. This Centralized Counselling for M.Tech./M.Arch./M.Plan./M.Des. Admissions is exclusively for GATE qualified candidates, possessing valid GATE score (in year 2015 or 2016)

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