VCET Is a co-educational Engineering College started in the year 2001, administered by
Vellalar Educational Trust. VET was formed in the year 1969 to provide quality and affordable
education - right from primary school to PhD level. The Trust manages 9 other institutions – a
State board school, a matriculation school, a CBSE School, an Arts and Science college for
Women, a coeducational Arts and Science college, a Pharmacy College, Nursing College and a
B.Ed college.
VCET was started with 3 UG programs in engineering with an intake of 180. VCET Is
approved by AICTE and affiliated to Anna University Chennai. Now the college offers 9 UG
programs, 5 PG programs in addition to three Research Centres approved by Anna University
for PhD. . More than 3100 students are pursuing their higher education in UG and PG levels.
Four UG programs , BE -Biomedical Engineering, BE- Computer Science and
Engineering, BE- Electrical and Electronics Engineering and BE- Electronics and
Communication Engineering got accredited by NBA under Tier 2 scheme in 2016 and
subsequently B.Tech - Information Technology program was accredited by NBA in 2018.
VCET was granted autonomous status by UGC from academic year 2016-17. From the
first year of autonomy, the college follows CBCS (Choice Based Credit System) offering wide
variety of courses to the students to acquire their required knowledge base for a successful
future – whether it is a job in Core or IT Company, or higher studies in India / abroad or be
entrepreneurship.
The OBE (Outcome Based Education) ensures that the system is student-centric and to
attain the requisite Graduate Attributes as per Washington Accord. Students are mentored by
teachers for both academic and personal growth.
Students are also motivated and encouraged to excel in co-curricular and extracurricular
activities so that they get 360 degree development.
The college has amodern digitallibrary which has 20,399 titles and 71,224 volumes in print
format, 11,183 e-books, 10,044 e- journals, 364 NPTEL web courses, 553 NPTEL courses in
video formats and 5,330 CDs. The college has separate hostels for boys and girls with modern
automated kitchen and dining facility. Transport facilitiesare available for day scholars for a
radius of 60 km.
Deserving students are financially supported by many scholarships from government, other
charity organizations and the College management.
The college also takes elaborate efforts to provide placements for the willing and eligible
students by inviting leading corporates / companies and conducting campus interviews.
Entrepreneur Development Cell arranges motivational and guidance programs for the
interested students by inviting successful and leading entrepreneurs and financial personnel.