Well I joined VIT in 2003, was a part of AIEEE batch.

Frankly, I was hell bent on getting a degree in CSE, so had to let go of a lot of good colleges(read DCE,NSIT, NIT-R) where I was not getting branch of CSE and the gamble which I took blew up on my face.

Also the bad experience was not only for me rather with most of my friends even. The point is that we lost the motivation and will to study. At last year we were only concerned with the placements. And for our batch even placements were pathetic.

Again to aspirants, well a year back, the situation was bad, I wouldnt say worst. The dept CS/EEE/ECE was sucking big time. Teaching was very substandard(apart from a teacher or two), Lecturers were VIT pass-outs. Asst Profs/Associate Profs were  with Mtechs only and that too from VIT. I cant imagine how it improved in an year or so.

So the true picture is that VIT cant be at 10th rank. An honest rank would be 20-25 to say least (after IITS, BHU,BITS(P,Mesra), NITS(A,C,W,Surathkal,T,Jaipur, Rour, Nagpur), CEG, RVCE, IIITS(A,H), DCE, NSIT, UICT(chem)).



So only consider it after exhausting the previous options. I dont know about other pvt instis like TIET, DAIIT, MIT-Mnipal, VJTI, JNTU and other NITs you shld ask their students.

--Inquizdator @ NY---

@seifo90

I am amazed by your extreme fervour towards VIT which ranges from jingoism to fanaticism.

As for calling me a liar, I don't take it personally as I think I failed to provide you the facts - so here is the encore..

• They boast of a huge infrastructure but is it possible for any infrastructure to support 15,000+ students. The campus is barely 200 acres. And the campus , everytime feels like a fish market. A small dingy classroom with 120+ students imagine!! An year of a department with 300+ students!!!

 You did provide the wikipedia entry so care to check the right hand corner for number of students. It says 12,242 students. And also that figure is an yr and half old, thats when I passed out. If question the authenticity of wiki even, plz do go to the certificates department where no the left side of the wall they display the number of current students and in my time this was the same figure as it is provided in wiki. So it is safe to assume that the number of students might now be 15K in 1 1/2 yrs.

• Most of the student crowd is very dodgy, I mean nearly 50-60 % of the students are from management quota and rest are the students who score no so high in VITEEE entrance exam. Frankly, I know people there who say sqrt(-4) = -2! and (a-b)^2  = a^2 - b^2!!

Listen dude/dudette some 2 yrs back the situation was the similar as i mentioned above, I dont have the figures of number of such persons but i hv met many who clearly lack common sense, I guess shld be common in any case. I dont know abt the situation now, It might hv improved

• if students are bad, then faculty is even worse, the lecturer who teaches advanced programming doesnt even know what does strcmp() mean ( a very basic function in C). Plagiarizing student's ideas by the faculty for their own means is rampant there.

 As for the faculty, you seem to agree on the plight of CS department. Could you care to throw light on the matter, that how many Assistant Professors have a PHd which is recommended by AICTE. Also the ECE and EE dept share the same problem. But I agree with Mech, Biotech, Civil,  I would recommend them as better ones. Please care to note that I said that "faculty dont know stuff" rather than "they are not helpful" . But the problem is that unless you know something its impossible to help.

• Academics sucks.. there is no concept of research. You will hv to go for a lot of trouble if applying for higher studies. Still follow some syllabus copied from VTU Karnataka, BITS.

How many publications by students, faculty / yr. Please, I was discouraged to publish mine even as the Prof-in charge said it was not good (so much for encouragement). Copying syllabus is not a good indicator of a Insti, hell they dont copy rather they take the what they feel best from other Insti syllabus. We didnt have Theory of Computation, Analysis of Algos which is one of the most important course of CS, i think you might agree if you are in CS.( many students didnt qualify in GATE because of the lack of knowledge of above two courses).

• About the strict rules..

 They did 'almost' singlehandedly destroyed my career. Why, I was in top 10 students in first yr / 1100 students. I was in top 10% in my department for all yrs, still they didnt give me promised scholarship, denied me first class with disti, didnt gave me a dept rank, denied me a chance to be a part of National-level Programming contest. why because i didnt give a 'HISTORY exam' as I was ill and part of thier stupid rules says unless you are gravely ill/death of father or mother they wont reconsider. A  severe 'food poisoning'  doesnt qualify as gravely ill, so I was failed.

Now you think that I didnt have correct priorities, then you can reconsider.

Although I am happy by your attitude to support VIT, its good to know that Junis are optimistic, but I dont know how the stuation improved in a yr or so.

TO ASPIRANTS,

VIT is good but not good than NSIT/DCE, CEG, some NITS(surathkal,W,Rourkela,Trichy, Calicut,Allhabad, Jaipur ), IIIT-A/IIIT-H, RVCE.

Also for the Ban-AUS test match see this(they havent won a test match against Aus)

http://stats.cricinfo.com/statsguru/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;opposition=2;team=25;template=results;type=team

I think you have seen the one day match in cardiff, Aftab Ahmed biffing Six of Gillespie.

Peace

Well Seifo90.. Bangladesh never won a test against Australia. For your info, they only won a test against lowly Zim in 2005.

And see this post for a detailed view on VIT

http://www.goiit.com/posts/list/30/about-non-iits-hey-guys-another-disaster-vit-among-top-10-61990.htm

I will tell you WHY VIT SUCKS!!



* They boast of a huge infrastructure but is it possible for any infrastructure to support 15,000+ students. The campus is barely 200 acres. And the campus , everytime feels like a fish market. A small dingy classroom with 120+ students imagine!! An year of a department with 300+ students!!!



* Most of the student crowd is very dodgy, I mean nearly 50-60 % of the students are from management quota and rest are the students who score no so high in VITEEE entrance exam. Frankly, I know people there who say sqrt(-4) = -2! and (a-b)^2  = a^2 - b^2!!



* if students are bad, then faculty is even worse, the lecturer who teaches advanced programming doesnt even know what does strcmp() mean ( a very basic function in C). Plagiarizing student's ideas by the faculty for their own means is rampant there.



* Academics sucks.. there is no concept of research. You will hv to go for a lot of trouble if applying for higher studies. Still follow some syllabus copied from VTU Karnataka, BITS



* Now dont let me start abt the administration -

       Charge you 500 bucks for breaking a test tube,

       They abuse you, shove you, even manhandle you.

       No concept of student union ( a puppet student council does exist)

       Do all the ghapla in the accounting and eat up your money in one way or the             other.

       Rules such as

             -Gals hv a strict intime of 5 pm, no camera phones,

             -Create new irrelevant rules almost instantly to harrass you(as they are                 now a University) and force it upon students. (A rule like if you are unable to write an exam due to illness or some emergency then if you give it later, you are termed as an arrear student and are denied all  previleges from attending conferences, receiving scholarships).

             -They sometime deliberately fail you to extort more money from you.



I think these all points sums it up.. Any self respecting, career conscious kid will suffer gravely after going there. Consider VIT only as a last option.



(THIS)CLAIMER

All the above information is from a reliable source, i.e ME a Student of VIT.

Please feel free to spread the word around. Dont want to suffer as I and countless others suffered.