Ph.D. in Information Technology 

at VIT Vellore, Vellore

At VIT Business School, students can pursue the PhD degree across several specialisations. Eligible candidates can refer to the list below to know more about some of the popular doctoral courses offered by VIT Business School, Vellore:

• Finance
• Marketing
• Human Resources
• Operations and Systems

 VIT Business School offers an internal full-time Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Management course. The minimum period of study and research from the date of registration is 30 months for full-time research scholars. The selection of candidates for the PhD programme at VIT Business School is based on their scores in VITREE/ CSIR NET/ UGC NET/ GRE/ TOEFL along with the Research Proposal and Personal Interview. 

Candidates seeking admission to the VIT Business School PhD programme can apply for the VITREE exam. It is conducted by VIT Vellore. Moreover, the application fees to apply and appear for the exam is INR 1,200. This fee is nonrefundable. Moreover, students must note that the aforementioned fees is as per official sources. However, it is subject to change.

While applying for the VIT Business School PhD course, students are required to upload scanned copies of certain documents. The list of documents required at the time of submitting an application as well as admission at VIT Business School is given below:

• Copy of Class 10 and Class 12 marksheets
• Scorecard of valid entrance exam
• Bachelor's degree marksheet (original)
• Master's degree marksheet (original)
• Copy of Aadhaar Card
• Transfer certificate/School leaving certificate (original & photocopy)
• Migration certificate (original & photocopy)
• Physical fitness certificate
• Community certificate (for SC/ST only)
• Nativity certificate (for candidates from Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, and the North-Eastern states)
• Copy of provisional admission letter
• Undertaking form (signed by students & parent)
• Student profile document (signed by student & parent)
• Affidavit by the student (typed on non-judicial stamp paper of INR 20)
• Affidavit by parent (typed on non-judicial stamp paper of INR 20)
• Two passport-size coloured photos (recent)

The institute conducts VITEEE for BTech admission, VITMEE for M.Tech admissions and VITREE for PhD admission. The institute accepts national-level entrance exams like CAT, XAT, MAT, GMAT, CMAT, ATMA, etc., for MBA course. However, admission to a few other courses, including BSc, BSc (Hons), BCA, BCom, MSc, MCA, among others, is based on the aggregate obtained by the candidates in previous qualifying degree/ exam (merit-based). After passing the entrance exam, aspirants are called further rounds of selection. Shortlisted aspirants need to come for counselling and document verification round. 

The placements are going on for the Class of 2025. As of now, a total of 11140 students of batch 2025 of courses like BTech, MCA, MBA, etc., have been placed in reputed companies. The key highlights of VIT Vellore placements for the Class of 2025 are tabulated below:

Note: The above mentioned data are the combined data of all the 4 VIT Campuses.

IIT is a public/government university. Whereas, VIT is a private university. Therefore there is difference in the fee for various courses and the education structure as well. IIT is best in offering Engineering courses to students when talking about the government university. VIT is one of the best private university offering Engineering and various other courses to students. Both are best universities and are incomparable. To get admission to VIT, candidates must have valid scores in VITEEE,  VITMEE,  VITREE, and other entrance exams.

The VIT Vellore highest package offered during the 2025 placement drive stood at INR 1 Cr per annum LPA. Earlier, the highest packages offered to the batch 2024 was INR 88 LPA. Gong back to 2023 placements, it was NR 1.02 Cr per annum.