Counselling for admission to the various BTech programmes of VIT University, Vellore, commenced simultaneously at the Vellore and Chennai campuses of VIT. Counselling was held for the candidates who obtained ranks 1 to 8,000 in the VIT Engineering Entrance Examination (VITEEE) held in 145 centres in 115 cities across India, Dubai, Kuwait and Muscat from April 6 to 17, 2016.
VIT Vice-Presidents Dr Sekar Viswanathan and GV Selvam inaugurated the first phase counselling session at the Vellore campus by distributing the admission letters to the first few candidates who selected their programmes. They gave away the letters to Harshit Rawat (BTech Computer Science and Information Security) and Shreya Gajanan Namjoshi (BTech Biotechnology).
Dr Anand ASamuel, VIT vice-chancellor, Dr S Narayanan pro-vice-chancellor and director, Admissions (UG) Dr K Manivannan were also present.