OK. Let me me share my experience of last 4 years here. It’s my last day (or say few hours before I leave this amazing place..
I joined VIT back in 2011, soon after when I was miserably failed in JEE and AIEEE, fortunately I secured a good rank in VIT.
In past 4 years I have seen a tremendous progress in nearly every field in VIT and rules are one of them.
Lets start from Infrastructure. Trust me there are very few places you will find in India or even in US univs. having such a world class infrastructure and when it comes to studies, which are pretty easy, you can easily manage to get good grade. Exams are not that tough, Only things that are taught in the class is asked so it’s easy to score marks..
On coming to placements which I think most important, I don’t remember anyone who is still unplaced, every one has a job here or I would say the avg. salary is 4 – 4.5 lpa for non CS/IT guys and for CS/IT people it’s around 6 lpa. If you are joining CS/IT, grabbing a high paying job is just a piece of cake for you. Except foe few allmost every companies visit for recruitment. This year a lot of new companies, including Hedge fund, investment banking come for recruitment. As years progresses, the placement will go better and better.
Next thing is Sex ratio which is really great. Getting a bf/gf is not that difficult just grow some guts.. In general you will have a group having lot of people from opposite sex. so don’t worry, VIT is not dry :). You will find people from all part of the India, NRI’s, people from different countries, you can enjoy all sort of cultural, language and other stuffs.
When it comes to higher studies, you can find our alumni in all most all topnotch universities, Stanford, MIT, UC -berkely, Hopkins, I, myself is going to join a well reputed US univ for my Masters. In academic research VIT always stands in top 5 across India, according to SCOPUS, leading several IITs and other academic institution. The labs are well equipped and each year they are starting new labs in collaboration with industrial companies. For example Microsoft, danfoss, honeywell, schneider, cisco etc etc has their labs here. The BIO dept. of VIT is outstanding in terms of research. the quality of research they are doing is paramount.
A lot of people every year get foreign internships, MITACS, DAAD, SURGE etc even for final year projects, VIT has strong colloboration and MOU( memorandum of understanding) from a lot of foreign Univs. So, if you want to do your final sem abroad , you can easy go for it plus it also helps you for your MS too.. You can easily get admission in lot of univ without writing GRE and in some univ your applications will be given preferences from other univ if you r from VIT.