Campus life, Indian student community, food options, and day-to-day living at Vellore Institute of Technology in Vellore.
The Vellore campus is VIT's original site and the largest of its four campuses. Its NIRF 2025 engineering submission records 35,957 students on four-year undergraduate programmes, 2,600 on two-year postgraduate programmes and 6,308 on five-year integrated programmes, including 1,408 students from outside India. Facilities include the Periyar E.V.R. Central Library, an air-conditioned gymnasium, indoor and outdoor sports grounds, a swimming pool, campus-wide Wi-Fi, general stores and a pharmacy. Teaching runs on VIT's Fully Flexible Credit System, which lets students choose electives, faculty and slots rather than following a fixed timetable.
The Vellore campus has 32 hostel blocks - 21 for men and the remainder for women - housing over 30,000 residents a year. NRI and foreign students pay in USD on a separate published tariff. For 2026-27 the men's regular blocks range from USD 2,170 for a six-bed non-air-conditioned room with vegetarian mess to USD 3,240 for a two-bed air-conditioned room with special mess, and the women's blocks from USD 2,680 for a four-bed air-conditioned bunker-cot room to USD 3,950 for a three-bed apartment room. Each figure covers room, mess, a non-refundable USD 250 admission fee and a refundable USD 400 caution deposit, and includes laundry up to 44 washes. Rooms are allotted first come, first served and the hostel fee is paid separately from tuition.
Hostel fees are quoted as room-plus-mess packages, so meals are prepaid rather than pay-as-you-go. Students choose between vegetarian, non-vegetarian and special mess tiers at the Vellore campus, and VIT states its catering serves vegetarian, non-vegetarian and international palates. Mess selection can be changed monthly, but upgrading in the fall semester requires paying the full differential and there is no refund for downgrading a mess or room.
Hostel premises have round-the-clock security personnel, and each block is staffed by supervisors, student counsellors and maintenance staff. A hostel review committee meets once a fortnight to take resident queries. VIT runs a primary health centre in the Dr. A.L. Mudaliar Block on campus with a pharmacy, two consultation rooms, an emergency room and 24-hour doctor and nursing cover.
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The International Relations Office in Dr. M.G.R. Block handles NRI and foreign admissions and every international student registers there on the day of admission. VIT also operates an Equal Opportunity Cell, a Student Grievance Redressal Committee, an Internal Complaints Committee, a disability support service and the Centre for VIT Happiness and Well Being.
