EW India Private Higher Education Rankings 2019-20 Award
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) won the Grand Jury awards initiated by Education world, a pan India magazine. VIT was ranked 1st among the private institutions in India in Student diversity and Quality of Campus Life categories. The eminent panel of grand jury comprised of Mr. Anand Sudarshan, promoter-director, Sylvant Advisors Pvt. Ltd., Ashok Misra, former director of IIT-Bombay and Dr. R. Natarajan, former chairman of AICTE.
Education world India Higher Education Rankings (EW IHERA) awards, based on a national wide survey conducted on selected sample of academic staff, industrial representatives and the final year students, placed VIT on the top five universities and the top 3 Engineering institutions in India and 1st among Tamil Nadu.
Mr. Sankar Viswanathan, Vice President of VIT and Dr. C. Vijayakumar, Director, International Relations, received these awards in a glittering ceremony at Taj Bangalore on 22nd June 2019.