VELS University Chennai: Fees, Admission 2026, Courses, Placements, Ranking

VELS University admissions are open to all courses for the academic year 2026-27. The university extends a wide range of programmes to students at the UG, PG, PhD, and diploma levels. VELS University Pallavaram Chennai offers various programmes such as BTech, BSc, MTech, MBA, etc.

VELS University admission 2026 is purely merit-based, determined by Class 12 standard marks. The university conducts its own VELS Scholarship Admission Test (V-SAT) to provide scholarship admission to 60+ UG courses. Additionally, VISTAS Chennai also accepts national-level entrance exams such as CAT, MAT, XAT, etc. and GATE for admission to MBA and MTech courses, respectively. The institute also conducts its own VELS Entrance Examination for courses such as BTech

The mode of VELS University Pallavaram Chennai admissions is online. Candidates willing to get admission must take part in the VISTAS admission process before the last date of application and complete the course eligibility which requires:

• Students to pass Class 12 in relevant subjects with at least 45% aggregate based on specialisation for admission to the BTech programme at Vistas Pallavaram
• In addition to this, a relaxation of 5% in the aggregate score is applicable for some of the specialisations.

For more on the different course eligibility interested students can check the Shiskha VELS University admission page. Candidates can also learn more about the VELS University Pallavaram Chennai admission dates for 2026 below:

Over the past few years, VELS University has been ranked under a number of streams by notable ranking organisations such as NIRF, India Today, Times, The Week, etc. Interested students can view a few of the important VELS Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies rankings below:

As per the latest report, the participating recruiters offered various job offers to batch 2025 of courses such as BTech, MBA, and MCA. The highest package offered during VELS University placements 2025 stood at INR 33 LPA. Further, the average package stood at INR 4.5 LPA with a placement rate of 80%.

Earlier, VELS University recorded 79.5% placements in the academic year 2023-2024. A total of 3,477 students of the batch 2024 were placed out of the 3,941 students eligible for the placements. The top recruiters of VELS University included Deloitte, IBM, Accenture, Amazon, HCL, Cognizant, Hexaware, Newgen, Indigo, Kotak Mahindra Bank, etc. Candidates can check the VELS University placement 2025 key highlights in the table below:

Check out more on VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies Placements in the below video:

VELS University campus is located in Pallavaram Chennai and offers a safe environment to students. The college offers all essential facilities for students including academic blocks a library collaboration spaces, café, convenience store etc. VISTAS Campus has a sprawling built-up area of 29 lakh sq ft. with 207 laboratories 352 classrooms and 7 auditoriums. The university provides hostel facilities with 10 boys’ hostels and 5 girls’ hostels. It is equipped with 110 smart classrooms 12 seminar halls 14 lecture capturing systems 228 LCDs 125 printers and 2800 computers & laptops for student use. VELS also offers high-speed internet facilities and a Wi-Fi-enabled campus. In addition there are 4 health centres and many other student support facilities across campus.

The college campus provides great environment for students. The college encourages students to participate in extra-curricular activities including sports cultural events etc. The college has an up-to-date infrastructure dedicated members of faculty disciplined campus opportunities for co-curricular and extracurricular activities and systematically developed procedures highlighting personality development of every student.

VELS University Chennai, through various schools of study and various departments, offers UG, PG, PhD, and other courses to students across Engineering, Law, and various other streams. The table below reflects the schools of study under the VELS Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies: