Vishwakarma Institute of Technology
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1983 |
| Endowment | Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable Trust (BRACT) |
| Chairman | Shri. Rajkumar Bansilal Agarwal |
| Director | Prof. Dr. R. M. Jalnekar |
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Academic staff
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225 |
| Students | 2800 |
| Address | 666 Upper Indiranagar, Bibwewadi, Pune-411037, Maharashtra, India, Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| Campus | Academic area: 7 acres(0.028 km2 and hostel and ground: 10 acre(0.0404 km2) |
| Acronym | VIT,Pune |
| Website | www.vit.edu |
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (Marathi : विश्वकर्मा अभियांत्रिकी महाविद्यालय, पुणे ) is an Autonomous Institute of engineering in Pune, India. Established in 1983, it is affiliated to the Savitribai Phule Pune University. The school is academically and financially autonomous and is run by the Bansilal Ramanath Agarwal Charitable Trust. The director is Prof. Dr. R. M. Jalnekar.
The college has attained academic autonomy from the academic year 2008-09. It is the first private college in Maharashtra to do so. Academic autonomy has helped the college to introduce cross-departmental and industry oriented subjects in the curriculum. The college is the only college in Pune to provide Honors and Minors course in addition to normal undergraduate course.
The college is situated in the Bibwewadi area of Pune,Maharashtra.
All Bachelor of Engineering/Technology (B.E. or B.Tech) courses are for a duration of four years. The following courses are offered:
The following are the supporting departments for the above courses. These departments do not offer full-fledged courses of their own.
The following are the postgraduate programs:
A doctors degree is awarded in the following fields:
The college has a Department of Self Development (DoSD) that handles campus placements.
The college has about 2800 students, 225 faculty members, 67 laboratories, 1 central library and 150 administrative and supportive staff.
Spread over an area of 7 acres (28,000 m2), the academic area consists of four major buildings. The campus has a canteen, a nescafe coffee shop and a bakery that remains open during the college hours, and a fully air-conditioned auditorium with ceiling fans.
The students hostel is off-campus The hostel is state of the art and is equipped with a mess facility for students. It is located about 3.5 km from the academic area.
GEM and VIT have a Memorandum of Understanding allowing a Student Exchange Program, where students studying in seven GEM affiliated schools in France, send their students to VIT and students in the third year (T.E.) of their bachelor's degree at VIT, go to France for one semester. The first batch completed its studies abroad in Jan-May 2009. This association also encourages higher learning (postgraduate) in GEM schools across France.
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