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V I T 2010 ENTRANCE EXAMINATION OF APRIL 17.

Posted on: 04/May/2010 3:31:54 AM

G.Viswananthan , The Chancellor , VIT announced that  A total of 1,57,554 candidates - 1,23,928 boys and 33,626 girls - will be appearing for VIT Engineering Entrance Examination (VITEEE) -2010 in 231 centers in 94 cities, 91 of them in India and three abroad, on April 17.  Last year Dubai was an overseas center. This year Riyadh and Singapore have been added to the list of overseas centers.

D.P. Kothari, Vice-Chancellor, said the largest number of 28,181 candidates would be appearing for the examination in Andhra Pradesh, followed by 25,653 in Uttar Pradesh, 16,595 in Bihar, 13,874 in New Delhi, 13,248 in Rajasthan and 9,499 in Tamil Nadu.A total of 3,922 candidates would be taking the examination in Chennai and 2,027 in Vellore. In Tamil Nadu, the VITEEE would be held in seven cities — Vellore, Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruchi, Salem and Tirunelveli.There are only l 3000 seats in 13 Batch. programmes in the VIT University, which includes 1000 seats on the VIT Chennai campus to be opened in the forthcoming academic year. A new course, B.Tech. in Automotive Engineering, would be started on the main campus in Vellore in collaboration with the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), Pune from the forthcoming academic year, with an intake of 60 students. Students joining this course would study three years in Vellore and one year in Pune.

Foreign students and Non-Resident Indian (NRI) students would be admitted up to a maximum of 15% of the total number of seats. The NRI students have the option of joining undergraduate programmes in VIT either directly under the foreign students` quota or on the basis of merit by appearing for VITEEE, he said.

The Chancellor has announced various scholarships for the meritorious students like tuition fee waiver for the rank holders, hostel fee waiver for the district toppers and for the students from rural areas there are different schemes of scholarship under STARS[Support The  Advancement of Rural Students]

The results of VITEEE would be published on the following websites on or before May 8: www.vit.ac.in, www.schools9.com, www.globalinfowings.com, www.indiaresults.com and www.minglebox.com.

Counseling would be held for the candidates who obtained the first 13,000 ranks from June 2 to 14 as per the following schedule:

Ranks 1-3000: June 2; ranks 3001-5000: June 4; ranks 5001-7000: June 7; ranks 7001-9000: June 9; ranks 9001-11,000: June 11; ranks 11,001-13,000: June 14. Candidates appearing for the counseling could opt for joining the course of their choice either on the main campus in Vellore or on the Chennai campus, Mr. Viswanathan said.

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