Vellore Institute of Technology's video: VIT Business School VITBS

VIT Business School (VITBS) endeavours to develop thought-leaders and business solution providers, who are innovative, socially sensitive, ethically strong and globally competent. Some of the finest skills like critical thinking, data crunching and pattern understanding, crisis management, intelligent data-driven decision making, cross-culture management and many more iterative and adoptive processes are imparted to suit the current corporate requirements. The academic thrust areas include Business Analytics, Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Operations and Systems. Fully Flexible Credit systems (FFCS) allows complete flexibility for a student to select the course, slot and faculty member. The programmes are designed to infuse strong industry-relevant business principles with deep insights, influencing practice and actively collaborating with Foreign Universities and Industry. The Business School collaborates with 73 plus Foreign Universities and many industries to bring in the best of class educational experience to the students. The MoU with well renowned - QS ranked, AACSB-ACBSP accredited Universities helps students gain overseas experiential learning, international placements and a global exposure. The Industrial collaboration extends for research, consultancy, internships, projects and placements. VITBS offers following programmes: • UG: Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) • PG: Master of Business Administration (MBA) • PhD Programmes VITBS offers a 1+1 Programme (MBA) in collaboration with University of Michigan, Dearborn Campus, USA where students take up one year of study at VIT to complete core courses and proceed for MS Programme at The University of Michigan. The School has undertaken several research projects funded by ICSSR and consultancy projects for various industries. The School has an active research blog where faculty members, research scholars and students share their thoughts on various economic, financial and management topics. Research in inter-disciplinary areas are also encouraged, where the students and faculty members from the school collaborate with persons from other disciplines. The students from VITBS have got placed across industries like FMCG, Banking, Manufacturing and Consulting. Major employers include Microsoft, Amazon, Flipkart, Deloitte etc. The VITBS edge is its ability to bring the industry intelligence to the classrooms and translate the future industrial requirements into curricular activities. The state-of-the-art business labs that prepare students for placements include FinTech Research Centre, Psychometric Lab, Business Analytics Lab, Communications Lab and Ideation Centre. VITBS launched the “FinTech Research Centre” in collaboration with TopXight Labs, a New York-based research lab and techno business incubator. The activities of this lab mainly focus on the real-time problems to get optimum solutions. The school is a fully digitized B-School that facilitates research and learning with relevant e-learning resources from Harvard Business School Publishing, exhaustive access of journals, databases such as EBSCO - Business Source Complete (Management Research Database), ABI/INFORM COMPLETE (ProQuest), CMIE Prowess, CMIE – Economic Outlook [earlier Business Beacon], IMF(International Monetary Fund – Statistical data and full text), SAGE Online Journals (Selected), ScienceDirect (Elsevier), Springerlink Journals, CAPEX and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (ETD) and, many software and tools. These facilities nurture the students to be globally competitive and innovative leaders. Course information: https://vit.ac.in/schools/vitbs