Keeping in view of the advancement in the digital era, the Vellore Institute of Technology—Andhra Pradesh, University has announced to launch new courses to ensure successful employment of its students with relevant skills. The VIT chancellor, Dr G Viswanathan said, “The way we conduct exams traditionally, only assesses students based on their ability to reproduce knowledge. We aim to reform the way we assess our students. We are aiming to match the assessment system with the outcome-based framework which our education and industry has adopted based on performance indicators.” The VIT-AP has ranked at the 13th position, consecutively for the last three years in the NIRF Ranking by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. VIT’s innovations in the field of education and research have set a benchmark for higher education in India.
The vice president of the university, Sankar Viswanathan announced that digital skills would be provided to the students through new courses like the BTech in Artificial Intelligence, BBA in Business Analytics, Animation and Media from the upcoming academic year. The university has collaborated with Toonz to offer the courses on animation, visual effects and gaming.
The university vice chancellor, Dr D Subhakar, explained that the three courses to be introduced are Animation and Film Making-Advanced (AFMA), Visual Effects-Advanced (VFXA) and the 3D Finishing Programme (3D-FP).
The VIT-AP School of Business will introduce a BBA in Business Analytics and the VSB is exploring an international credit transfer program with the WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU), USA for a 2+2 program. Under this programme, the students can study two years in India and two years in USA and get their Undergraduate degree from ASU. Twelve universities from USA, UK, Australia and Spain will offer international transfership programs.
The registrar of the university, Dr CLV Sivakumar, further informed that to ensure practical training to the BTech students, the university is offering engineering clinics and 6-month and 9-month internship program even from the completion of their first year.