{"id":1039,"date":"2013-12-12T18:07:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T12:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2013-12-12T18:07:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T12:37:33","slug":"vit-ahead-iits-research-aspires-grow-big-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/vit-ahead-iits-research-aspires-grow-big-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"VIT ahead of most IITs in research, aspires to grow as big as MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1040\" title=\"VIT ahead of most IITs in research, aspires to grow as big as MIT\" alt=\"VIT ahead of most IITs in research, aspires to grow as big as MIT\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/vitlogo2_opt.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><b>New Delhi:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/top-engineering-colleges\/vellore-institute-of-technology\/\">Vellore Institute of Technology, VIT <\/a>for short, has been in news for several reasons this year \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 from announcing a science contest for school-level children next year to joining hands with biotech firms for research and development. It created a new record in September this year when over 2,000 B.Tech students at VIT got 3,934 placement offers &#8211; the largest number of offers made at a single institute in South India in the very first session of campus hiring. Now, it has yet another feather in its cap.<\/p>\n<p>VIT has overtaken most IITs (except IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur) in the publication or research papers, which is a vital factor taken into account by all major university rankings worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-politico VIT Chancellor Dr G Viswanathan however says, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cVIT is not competing with the IITs. We aspire to grow as big as the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Vishwanathan who has recently released his biography in English and Tamil on his 75<sup>th<\/sup> birthday also said that VIT has earned global recognition and has about 25,000 students hailing across different states of India and as many as 50 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The institute offers scholarships and free education to the underprivileged in the state of Tamil Nadu too.<\/p>\n<p>This post was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109449750854720186719?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aditya Singhal<\/a>, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\">askIITians.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Vellore Institute of Technology, VIT for short, has been in news for several reasons this year \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 from announcing a science contest for school-level children next year to joining hands with biotech firms for research and development. It created a new record in September this year when over 2,000 B.Tech students at VIT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}