Visvesvaraya Technological University

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Gulbarga and Mysore oer M.Tech, MBA, MCA and

PhD programs.[16][17][18]
The university has signed MoUs with multinational corporations like IBM, Intel Asia Electronics Inc., IngersollRand (India) Ltd., Bangalore, Nokia, Bosch Rexroth and
Microsoft to improve the industry interactions for students and the teachers.[3][19]

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) is a

collegiate public state university in Karnataka State, VTU is one of the member universities of the Association
India. It was established by the Government of Kar- of Indian Universities and Association of Commonwealth
nataka.[8] Apart from a few notable exceptions, VTU has Universities.[20][21]
education authority in the state of Karnataka. It is a statutory requirement for colleges oering any program in engineering or technology in the state to be aliated with
the university.[9]

1 History

The university is named after Sir M Visvesvaraya from

Karnataka, the only engineer to be awarded a Bharat
Ratna, the highest civilian award in India. Jnana
Sangama, Belagavi is the headquarters of VTU. Additionally, the university has three regional centers in
Bangalore, Gulbarga and Mysore.

In India, the state governments are responsible for education in their states. Development and monitoring of
universities is in the mandate of a state government. In
view of improving the quality of technical education in
Karnataka, the state government passed the VTU Act in
VTU is one of the largest universities in India with 1994 which led to formation of VTU and its dedication
212 colleges aliated to it with an intake capacity to technical education. VTUs mandate is dened as:[22]
of over 467,100 undergraduate students and 12,666
postgraduate students. The university encompasses technical and management elds which oers a total of 30
Promote planned and sustainable development of
undergraduate[10] and 71 postgraduate courses.[11] The
technical education consistent with state and nauniversity has around 1800 PhD candidates.[12]
tional policies
VTU has 13 QIP centers and 17 extension centers[13] in
its aliated colleges oering postgraduate courses. It has
around 2,305 departments recognized as research centers
which are spread across its aliated institutions in cities
of Karnataka.[3][14]

Design need based programs that ensure adequate

human resource of the right kind
Establish objective evaluation and certication systems for students programs and institutions

It is one of the few universities of India to have 16 of its

aliated colleges recognised by the World Bank for getting assistance in setting up state-of-the-art laboratories,
campus facilities and research centers under the TEQIP
(Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme,
a government of India initiative) program.[3]

Collaborate with national and international institutions, R&D establishments, organizations like
AICTE, MHRD, UGC, industry and user agencies

VTU is administered by its Executive Council and Academic Senate whose members are selected from the
academic community and government ocials.[15] The
present chancellor is Sri Vajubhai Vala, governor of Karnataka state and the vice-chancellor is Dr. H. Maheshappa.Vice Chancellor Dr H Maheshappa Gets Suspended on march 15 2016[2][15]

The VTU Act vested authority to VTU as the sole afliating university for technical education in the state.
All the colleges in the state that oered technical programs, mostly aliated to regional state universities,
were obligated to shift aliation to VTU. Notable exceptions to the VTU Act include, but are not limited to
The Jnana Sangama, Belgaum campus and the regional University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (aliand extension centers of VTU at Bangalore, Davangere, ated to Bangalore University), National Institute of Technology Surathkal, and Manipal Institute of Technology.
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4 CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE

3 Research and development (R &

D)

A fountain at VTU campus entrance

Academic prole
A Boulevard at VTU Campus

2.1

Boards and courses

VTU oers undergraduate engineering programs that

award a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) or Bachelor of
Technology (B.Tech) degree. The university oers
postgraduate programs that lead to Master of Technology
(M.Tech), Master of Science (MSc) by research, Master
of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Computer
Applications (MCA) and doctorate (Ph.D). The MSc and
PhD are research degrees while the rest are taught degrees.
2.1.1

Undergraduate courses

The university has 12 undergraduate boards which offer Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) programs and 1 undergraduate board which oers Bachelor of Architecture
(B.Arch) course:

The Architecture board oers B.Arch course.

2.1.2

Postgraduate courses

3.1 Research centers

VTU has over 2305 research centers in 75 aliated
colleges.[25]
The university provides research scopes in the following
elds:[26]
Bio-Technology
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electronics & Communications Engineering
General Science
Master of Business Administration
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering

The university has 11 postgraduate boards which oer

Master of Technology (M.Tech) programs:

Physics
Textile Engineering

2.2

Syllabus

Visvesvaraya Technological University accomplished its

primary task of setting a common syllabus across the state
in 1998. The university revises the syllabus every four
years keeping in view the technology upgrades around
the world. The syllabus was revised in 2002, 2006 and
2010.[23] In 2012, VTU announced that it would launch
a 'rst-of-its-kind' elective targeting railways and metro
technology as part of the civil, electrical and mechanical
engineering courses.[24]

aeronautical engineering

4 Centers of excellence
The university has signed MoUs with international
organisations such as (CANEUS International) and
multinational corporations (like IBM, Intel Asia Electronics Inc., Ingersoll-Rand (India) Ltd., Bangalore, Nokia,
Bosch Rexroth and Microsoft) and has set up centres of
excellence.[27][28][29][30]

6.2

VTU Fest

Autonomy cell

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winning teams then represent the university in national
level competitions.

6.2 VTU Fest

The university annually organises an inter-collegiate
culfest which sees participants from all its aliated
colleges.[32]

7 Visvesvaraya Institute of Advanced Technology

Visvesvaraya Institute of Advanced Technology (VIAT)
is a research institute being constructed in Muddenahalli,
A Road in VTU campus
Karnataka. The institute is on 200 acres (0.81 km2 )
of land near Nandi Hills and is expected to cost 600
crores.[33][34] In the initial years, VIAT will focus on research in embedded technology, software quality, agri5.1 Autonomous colleges
cultural engineering and bioengineering. Each department will function as a 'discovery-innovation center.' The
In 2007, the university granted academic and adminisinstitute will oer graduate and PhD programs in the scitrative autonomy to 14 colleges in the state. 'Autonomy'
ences.
implies that the college has the freedom to set its own
syllabus, evaluation system, and grading system, but the
degree awarded will be by the university. This degree
diers from the degree awarded by non-autonomous col- 8 Aliated colleges
leges, with the dierence being that the college name is
boldly marked as 'Autonomous.[31]
There are 208 colleges aliated to the university. The
colleges are categorised as 'government', 'private-aided'
and 'private-unaided' based on the type of funding. A few
5.1.1 Marks and grading system
colleges may be classied as 'minority linguistic' and 'minority religious based on the minority status of languages
Non-autonomous colleges All the aliated 'non au- and religions.[35][36] Further, these colleges are placed untonomous colleges assess the students by a mark system. der 'autonomous and 'non-autonomous category of instiAn aggregate score is calculated out of 100 as a percent- tutions granted by UGC.[31]
age. All the subjects get equal weight. The nal score
is not calculated as a GPA but are instead awarded with
classes according to the marks obtained.
8.1 Examination
The classes awarded to the students of non-autonomous
Exams are conducted twice a year for all aliated colcolleges are:
leges. Odd semester exam are conducted during December and January. Results usually published in February.
Autonomous colleges All the 'autonomous colleges Even semester exams are conducted in the May/June; refollow a system of absolute grading or relative grading. sults are published in July.[37]
The nal score is calculated as a GPA.
See List of colleges aliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University

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6.1

Student activities
Sports

The university organizes competitions for most sports

played in India. Most competitions are held in its aliated colleges except for tennis hockey, tennis and tabletennis which are held in the campus at Belgaum. The

9 Rankings
9.1 Ranking list

The rank among all the Indian universities

The rank among all the world universities

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List of vice chancellors

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See also

List of colleges aliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University

Visvesvaraya Institute of Advanced Technology

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References

[1] Academic Dept

[2] Governing Bodies
[3] About VTU
[4] Honour for VTU Vice-Chancellor. The Hindu (Chennai, India). 2006-08-25.
[5] Archived October 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
[6] Visveswaraiah Technological University | Ranking & Review

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[26] Research Portal

[27] Makeover for VTU engg curriculum.
ald.com. Retrieved 2011-10-29.

Deccanher-

[28] Centres of Excellence. Vtu.ac.in. 2011-02-18. Retrieved 2011-10-29.

[29] Uday (2009-05-21). All muddled over Microsoft- VTU
MoU. All About Belgaum. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
[30] VTU signs technology deal - Times Of India. Articles.timesondia.indiatimes.com. 2002-12-17. Retrieved
2011-10-29.
[31] Autonomy Cell. Vtu.ac.in. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
[32] Education Plus: VTU fest from Feb. 15. Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
[33] Foundation stone for VIAT to be laid soon. The Hindu
(Chennai, India). 2008-12-12.
[34] An emerging educational hub. The Hindu (Chennai, India). 2009-09-07.
[35] http://cet.kar.nic.in/cet2011/Brochure_files/CET_
Manual_Book_61-68.pdf

[7] http://vtu.ac.in/pdf/sports/calender2011.pdf

[36] CET - Manual Book 69-83 Pages (PDF). Retrieved

2011-10-29.

[8] http://www.vtu.ac.in/newspaper/
ConvocationPressNote2011.pdf

[37] VTU results.

[9] http://vtu.ac.in/pdf/academic/publicnotice.pdf

[38] Top Colleges & Universities in India | University Web

Rankings. 4icu.org. Retrieved 2011-10-29.

[10] ug scheme & syllabus 2010-11

[11] Scheme & Syllabus of PG Programmes - 2010-11
[12] About VTU
[13] VTU Extension Centre. Vtu.ac.in. 2011-02-18. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
[14] http://vtu.ac.in/pdf/Circulars/list2011.pdf
[15] Governing Bodies
[16] ANNq (PDF). Retrieved 2011-10-29.
[17] http://www.kar.nic.in/kea/pgcet/MCA_Matrix.pdf
[18] Degree Awarded
[19] http://vtu.ac.in/pdf/Circulars/brco.pdf
[20] Minds - Visvesvaraya Technological University
[21] Handbook of universities - Ameeta Gupta, Ashish Kumar
- Google Books
[22] Vision - Mission - Mandate
[23] Scheme and Syllabus
[24] Vivan, Sridhar (2012-04-30). VTU to get on track with
railway elective. Bangalore: Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
[25] Research Portal

[39] Visveswaraiah Technological University | Ranking & Review. 4icu.org. 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
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Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2001-04-01. Retrieved
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[41] NATIONAL / KARNATAKA : Maheshappa takes over
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[42] VTU VC will complete term: Minister - Deccan Herald Internet Edition. Archive.deccanherald.com. Retrieved
2011-10-29.
[43] Handbook of universities - Ameeta Gupta, Ashish Kumar
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[47] http://www.vtu.ac.in/newspaper/VTU%20in%
20News%201.pdf

[48] V. Sridhar is in-charge VC of VTU. Bangalore, India:

The Hindu. 2016-05-05. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
[49] http://www.pescemandya.org/about_principal.php

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VTU Results Website

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