VET First Grade College, Bangalore

First Grade College for VET was set up in 1996 and is situated in Bangalore, Karnataka. This affiliated college is co-educational and it provides several undergraduate as well as post graduate courses in various faculties. Certified by NAAC first-graders VET First Grade College has all the conditions to offer students quality education in the past 2. 5 years.

As a campus college, the institution occupies a small piece of land measuring 2. 5 acres of land and at the moment the college admits 722 students and it has 18 faculty members. The institute teaches 8 courses across 7 degrees offering Commerce, Computer Applications, Business Administration, Fashion Design courses.

The college has recorded the provision of various productive infrastructure to foster academic activities. The updated library is the power house which provides knowledge in the form of words and books to the students. There are always new arrivals on the shelves; excellent, students and faculty use an online public access catalog for book searching.

The college boasts of having fully equipped laboratory facility for computer, science and commerce stream. Some of these labs use the modern equipment making the learning experiences close to the modern real world. It includes specially identified and valued IT infrastructure which include a computer lab comprised of 54 desk tops, advanced Wi-Fi Intenet connectivity, projectors, and printers.

This arrangement enhances general activities such as Computer-Aided Designing, Three Dimensional modeling, and coding. VET First Grade College is well equipped to provide its patrons with a conducive learning environment as well as a wide choice of courses to suit the patrons’ individual preferences.

The institute offers fifteen full time programmes out of which eight are undergraduate as well as postgraduate study options. For the under graduate, studies there are opportunities for a B. Com , BCA, BBA , BA, as well as B. Sc in Fashion and Apparel Design . For postgraduate courses it provides M. Com along with Postgraduate Diploma in Business administration and E-commerce.

The college total student intake at courses level is 606 and this as a policy ensures that class sizes are kept small in order to enhance effective learning. The number of students that the college admitted in this past academic year was 722 across all programs showing adequate market for the college’s products.

The process of admission at VET First Grade College, an affiliated college of Bengaluru City University , is sleek and fairly easy for the students to follow. From the current study, the college does not give specific date for the exams though it follows academic calendar set down by the affiliating university.

As for the admission procedure and deadlines, the applicants are welcome to visit the college’s website or call the admission office to get latest information.

Scholarship is available to needy and worthy students with 271 first-year, second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students being awarded scholarships for the 2022 academic year while 20 scholar students for postgraduate studies were also awarded scholarships in the same year. Such commitment to financial aid shows how the college is endeavouring to broaden access to educational quality to other students.

As for the individual information about the alumni the college still actively develops the alumni relations and keeps in touch with the graduates that may share the information about their work or study experience with the present students.

VET First Grade College has the objective of helping the meritorious as well as economically weak students by various scholarship schemes. In the year 2023, thousands of students have been benefited with financial aid. For VET First Grade College undergraduate programmes, among the 749 total students, 649 have been rewarded with scholarship and fee reimbursement, which is almost around 86.

6% of the total undergraduate students undergoing financial assistance. At the PG level, an impressive 12 out of the 15 meritorious scholars were provided with scholarships, almost 80 per cent of the postgraduate cohorts. The percentages show the zeal of the colleges in providing such opportunities to their students from any background.

One can guess various criteria such as merit, family income, as well as such categories as SC/ST, minority status under which these schemes are based. Scholarships for a student to join the college require the student's academic record and income certificate from the previous academic year as mandated by the respective college.

All application procedures along with deadlines of different scholarships are made public before every academic session starts.