Present day students like to make decisions on their own and plan their future by
themselves. Employers expect students to have multi-disciplinary competency
plus leadership skills and be ICT ready. Both student aspirations and demands
of the workplace have become highly diverse.
Realising the changing sceanrio and in its endeavour to provide quality
education, VIT University offers the Fully Flexible Credit System (FFCS)™ in its
academic curriculum. Under this, students can register for courses according
to their interests and academic abilities. FFCS allows students to decide their
academic plan and permits them to alter it if required as they progress in time.
Under FFCS, each programme will have baskets of courses classi?ed under
University Core, University Elective, Programme Core and Programme Elective.
At the end of the Programme, each B.Tech student is expected to have the
following credit distribution in various disciplines: Engineering (64%), Science
(20%), Humanities (8%), and Management (8%). Ample options are given
under the University Electives to choose interdisciplinary courses from other
Engineering Schools, which will help the student to develop additional skills.
The slot-based timetable, coupled with a campus-wide Course Registration
in each semester, helps individual students to choose the course they want
to study, time of attending a theory / lab class and even the teacher. Thus,
students can make their own timetable and each student in a class may have a
different timetable of his / her own.
Depending on the interest developed by students in their own discipline or
another during their study for a degree, they can choose either an ‘Honors’ or
‘Minor’ credential. University Electives will de?nitely be an attraction to students
to extend their knowledge beyond their areas of specialisation.
Students having high grades will also get a chance to complete the credit
requirements earlier and take up Teaching / Research Assistantships in their
?nal year of studies. They can pursue student / research projects in parallel too.
Other features of FFCS include: Add or Drop registered courses to balance
workload, Course Withdrawal to maximize grades, Course Auditing to gain
additional knowledge, Registering for M.Tech level courses for in-depth
experience, Course Substitution option, Grade Improvement, Credit Transfer for
course migration, etc.
Salient Features of FFCS
• Choice in the order of selection of courses for each semester
• Choice in the timings / time slots in the selection of courses
• Choice in the selection of number of courses per semester
• Choice of preparing his / her own Timetable and Academic Plan for each
semester suiting his / her academic ability and interest
• Balanced curriculum with engineering, science, humanities and management
courses
• Ample opportunities to do inter-disciplinary courses
• Soft on slow learners by offering important / common courses in all
semesters
• Provision for Registration / Re-registration during summer semester
• Opportunity of Research experience
• Value addition with Minor / Honours option
