Counselling for entrance to various B Tech programmes of VIT University, Vellore commenced at the same time at the Vellore and Chennai campuses of VIT on Monday.
Counselling was held for the candidates who obtained ranks 1 to 8000 in the VIT Engineering Entrance Examination (VITEEE) held in 145 centres in 115 cities across India, Dubai, Kuwait and Muscat from 6 to 17 April.
A total of 2,12,238 candidates appeared for the VITEEE-2016. Counselling begins at VITVIT vice-presidents Sekar Viswanathan and G V Selvam inaugurated the first phase counselling session at the Vellore campus by distributing the admission letters to the first few candidates who selected their programmes.