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Opportunities
To Maximize the Impact of Industry and International Partnership
VIT has a strong partner base in industry and international institutions. The
university is working towards maximizing the impact of the partnership
through the following:
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Creating faculty exchange with international institutions
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Promoting collaborative research with international partners
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Providing faculty with extensive exposure to industry practice
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Undertaking industry sponsored projects
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Creating opportunities for international student exchange
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Creating industry supported lab facilities
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Enhancing industry involvement in curriculum development and
continuous quality improvement
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Creating global opportunities for graduates while providing similar
opportunities for students from international institutions
To Expand Research Output
VIT started moving towards becoming a research intensive university. In the
last four years, the research output has increased from 400 Scopus indexed
publications in 2010 to 1600 in 2013. Currently VIT’s focus is to increase the
collaborative research with major research universities around the world for
the following impact:
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To create joint international research labs
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To secure lab time for researchers in capital intensive global labs
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To support joint publications with international researchers
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To facilitate substantial increase of VIT’s citation index
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To create global presence for VIT through joint conferences
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To share research output in national and international forums
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To increase the funding, especially international funding, substantially
To Provide Mentoring for International Accreditation
Since 2003, VIT has focused its efforts to emerge as an internationally
recognized institution. As a first stage in the process, the university secured
accreditation for a select set of programs from the UK accrediting agencies.
However, as the process for international benchmarking expanded, it became
obvious that ABET (USA) accreditation was far more important to reach
global ranking. Currently, VIT is the only institution in India to have ABET
accreditation for programs in all its schools of engineering, Computer Science
and Information Technology. There are seven ABET accredited programs in
the university as of 2014. In 2015, VIT will have 14 ABET accredited
programs. The evaluation process to accomplish it is currently under way.