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About Vel Tech

Vel Tech was established in 1997 by the Founder President & Chancellor Col.Prof.Vel.Dr.R.Rangarajan and Foundress President Dr.Sagunthala Rangarajan with the vision of creating model citizens who would contribute professionally and socially to the Nation. Vel Tech provides good opportunities to the students of all strata of the society with high quality education. Well-equipped infrastructure, competent faculty and a range of co-curricular & extracurricular activities at Vel Tech ensure a holistic development of students.

Our University offers 21 Under Graduate(UG) & 17 Post Graduate(PG) degree programs and Ph.D. in Engineering & Technology, Management Studies, Arts & Science and Law with around 14,000 students, 753 Ph.D. scholars and 805 dedicated faculty. Every student is given the opportunity to study courses offered by Industry experts and renowned professors from international universities. Every year 15% of our graduands are getting admissions in foreign Universities to pursue their higher studies and all other eligible students are provided with placements opportunities in the reputed core and IT industries. Many of our graduands completed their internship in the reputed industries and research organizations in India and abroad.

The institution has been accredited by NAAC with ‘A⁺⁺’ grade in the Second Cycle and a CGPA of 3.53 out of 4.00 for a period of 5 years from February 2023. Vel Tech has been recognized as Category-1 Deemed to be University by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and also received the status of 12B from UGC which provides the opportunity to receive more research grants. Six undergraduate engineering programs and one PG programme have been accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) under the Tier-I category.

In the NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Frame work) India Rankings 2024, Vel Tech secured 86^th rank in the Engineering Category and 96^th in the University Category. Vel Tech is also ranked in the band 11-50 under the Innovation category and in the top 100 in a row of 8 years since 2017 under engineering category. In addition, the institution is also ranked in the Times Higher Education (THE) world university rankings and QS Asia university rankings.

Global Alliances of Vel Tech has International relations with more than 600 Institutions across 42 countries and has entered in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with more than 196 Institutions.

Vel Tech Technology Business Incubator was established in the year 2010 to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. Vel Tech TBI has supported 340 startups so far and has provided seed funds of Rs.18.81 Cr to 171 entrepreneurs. Vel Tech TBI was recognised as one of the five Centres of Excellence under NIDHI Centre of Excellence scheme by the Department of Science and Technology. NIDHI PRAYAS scheme supported 67 innovators with a grant of up to Rs.10 Lakh each to develop their innovative ideas into products. It has been recently recognised by startup India Seed Fund worth Rs. 9.8 Crore to support early-stage startups.

Vel Tech has got a proactive research ambience and was granted 100 R&D projects worth Rs. 70 Crore from DST, DBT, DAE and DRDO and collaborative funding like Indo-Korea, Indo-France, Indo-Canada and Indo-Taiwan.

Vel Tech University was awarded “ISTE National Award for Best Technical University for 2023” in the 53^rd ISTE national annual convention held at Bhubaneswar, in recognition of encouraging Technical Universities to enhance the performance and to serve the community and stakeholders by improving the quality and maintaining standards of the programs offered.

Vel Tech places a strong emphasis on extra-curricular and co-curricular activities with more than 30 Technical clubs, Dance club, Music club , Arts & Drama Clubs and two units of the NSS, NCC Air Wing, NCC Naval Wing, and NCC Army Wing (Girls).