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.
Next comes the extra curricular. There are so many groups and clubs are there, providing unique opportunities and platform to grow and unleash your potential. On an average every day, there will be some group/chapter activity which will provide you new insights just than engineering. I learnt how to make a make a wireless robot in the first sem itself just from attending these clubs events. we have dance club, music, Make a Diff, ………the list is endless..
When it comes to rules, they follows them strictly.Look there are more than 25k people are in the campus and its not easy to control them without following rules.. Back in 2011, the in time was 11:30 pm for everyday..Then, oen day few students were caught in malicious activities, and they shift it to 10:30 now it’s 9:30..They changed it as a precaution..and for people who are crying about PDA, Look thsi is not a place where you kiss your gf/bf openly… It looks awkward when other people pass through.. way back there was no restriction about kissing and all things in campus, when every one start kissing, hugging, smoothing openly they have to take actions. There are lots of people in VIT than just you, the faculties, parents who visits the campus, and other single people. NO one is stopping you to do anything outside the campus..Take proper permission, go out and do what you wanted to do ..who’s stopping. Rules are meant for your safety.. There is a set procedure of everything. If you want to go out of campus for 1/2 days you need to take permission from a proper medium this is only to ensure your safety. Every year, some one will do some nonsense and VIT has to enforce new rule.. Latest example, suspension of elections, it happened because 2 rival group start fighting among themselves. To prevent this happening in future, they just suspended the election and elect the representatives directly.. There is no harm in the rules, as long as you are following them effectively and there are not much of them..I am surprised people are making a hue and cry about them. Guys abandon your typical indian attitude of “chalta hai ” and start act like a professional.. What you can do in your life when you can’t even follow few rules.
lastly, for me its been a great pleasure to study here, I got to know people with different ethnicity, race, countries. Its really fun to taste all these mixtures at one single place. One thing I can vouch I have no regret in joining this place. I learnt a lot of things here, did great projects, won a national award, found a love, published my work in international venues, got admitted to a to US univ and and a great placement offer as well 🙂
Look in 4 years you are going to learn how to live and enjoy a life just don’t become a coach bag engineer, VIT offers a wide ranges of opportunities ranging from entrepreneurship, research, sports and all and all. Every year they are improving and improvising something. IT depends on you how to utilize these resources and get ahead in life otherwise there are people who will always want to point out the flaws from everything.