Toppers List
The institute’s innovation ecosystem also expanded, with 100 student teams registering for prototype funding, around 50 pitching their ideas and 26 being selected for funding. VNIT Ventures Vault Foundation (V3F), its dedicated incubation centre, was inaugurated, while the institute secured ₹5 crore under the DST-NIDHI TBI scheme for healthcare product development and technology transfer. Research remained a major focus, with 34 patents granted to VNIT faculty and 94 ongoing R&D projects worth around ₹60 crore in areas including electric mobility, wireless charging, 6G, AI, renewable energy, quantum technology and healthcare. Eight faculty members featured in Stanford University-Elsevier’s World’s Top 2% Scientists list for 2025.
Chairperson, Board of Governors, Madabhushi Madan Gopal, urged the graduates to become creators of technology and active contributors to India’s development. He stressed that technological capabilities must be backed by ethics, accountability, sustainability and empathy, while asking students to remain connected to the country’s cultural and intellectual heritage.