Vidyashilp University

Offering service since 1982

Overview

Vidyashilp Education Group

The Vidyashilp Education Group (VSEG) was established with a belief that education must be molded for students, and not the other way around. Our faculty intentionally sculpt educational experiences that draw from students’ innate strengths and unique backgrounds. With a legacy of 4 decades, our institutions are globally renowned for thinking and teaching differently.

Vidyashilp Education Group has a heritage of nearly four decades in K-12 education. From a single room with 30 students in 1982, the group has grown to 3 schools and 2 preschools in various parts of Bangalore. The Vidyashilp institutions provide an educational experience of the highest quality and aim to advance the frontiers of knowledge and to prepare students for life, work, and leadership.

Vidyashilp University

Vidyashilp University is the culmination of an outstanding legacy of the Vidyashilp Education Group, committed to excellence in education. Vidyashilp University aims to foster an environment and culture of collaboration, responsiveness, high performance and service. We are people-centred and provide a unique Vidyashilp Experience to our students and staff, focused on nurturing students who will become self-aware, confident, empathetic and resourceful, and leaders who serve the society.

At Vidyashilp University, we facilitate your growth by building deep domain knowledge through an interdisciplinary approach. In the real world, no domain exists in isolation, and hence your learning should not either. Our curriculum ensures that you explore a wide range of the domain’s applications, across multiple contexts.

Our focus is on the emerging domains of the world, such as Digital Business, Communication Design, Data Science, Psychology, and Economics. Depending on the program you select, its corresponding domain will be covered end-to-end to ensure that you can create rapid connections in real-world scenarios and strengthen your expertise.

The campus located in the city of innovation, Bengaluru, with an infrastructure, aesthetically fit for a global era. We invite you to explore the vibrant university campus, the friendly faculty and the college community that make Vidyashilp University your ideal choice for higher education.

Why choose VU?
 

  • VU Experience

The VU Experience fosters a climate for intentional collaboration between individuals and groups from diverse cultures and backgrounds. VU creates a diverse, inclusive community and environment where VU faculty, staff, students and parents, and alumni feel connected to one another by a common sense of purpose, pride, and spirit, and develop a distinctive ability to work, learn, lead and serve in diverse contexts.

  • Domain Expertise

VU’s primary educational goal is the cultivation of deep domain knowledge within each student’s chosen field. We believe that investing in all domains of our differentiated focus areas is essential to create intellectual capital to drive progress and achieve excellence.

  • Experiential Learning

Education is a process of living life and not just a preparation for future living. Through innovative approaches to teaching and learning, Vidyashilp University unleashes a potential to make education personalized, interconnected and seamless.

  • An Interdisciplinary Vidyashilp

At VU, our schools don’t function in silos but rather with an interdisciplinary dependence to create deep domain knowledge. We focus on a problem-solving approach and provide program choices across all four schools with a curriculum established in Data Science, Digital Business, Design Studies, Legal Studies and Liberal Arts.

Courses Offered

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Admissions

Applicants are required to satisfy the University’s eligibility criteria with respect to:

  • Minimum Percentage of Marks in concerned optional subjects or an aggregate of all subjects, as required
  • Minimum Age completion at the time of admission as stipulated by the concerned University
  • Applicants are advised to verify and ensure the eligibility criteria as per the program specification.

Scholarship

Your University education is an investment for your future. We look forward to building a diverse and talented student community to create a rich learning experience.

  • Merit Scholarship : We offer merit-based scholarships to recognize and reward high academic achievers. We also offer scholarships for performance in State and All India Examinations (JEE / CET), and SAT.
  • Enabling Scholarship : We recognize meritorious students and believe that financial constraints should not prevent you from applying to our University.
  • Encouragement Scholarship : We constantly encourage you to strive for excellence in all aspects of life. To support this idea further, we offer scholarships to high-achieving all-rounders and differently-abled students.
  • Academic Performance Scholarship : We encourage you to persevere throughout your VU academic career. From the second year onwards, we award scholarships based on your performance

Accomodation

Your experience at VU will be like a home away from home. To ensure that your experience is enjoyable and convenient, we offer various accommodation options. The Student Residence facility is located 10 minutes away from our Founding Campus, off-Bellary Road, Bengaluru.

Some of the facilities available to our students include:

  • Shuttle service between the University and Student Residences
  • Fully furnished rooms
  • Housekeeping
  • Community kitchen
  • Gender-specific residential facilities
  • Common Recreation Area with TV
  • WiFi and power back-up
  • Security with CCTV systems

Career Opportunities

Career Development Centre

Chalk A Path For Yourself

Explore Interesting Career Opportunities

  • The Career Development Centre contributes significantly to the overall "VU Student Experience". It enables our students to apply their learning experiences and domain knowledge in Interdisciplinary contexts for professional growth.
  • The Career Development Centre and its resources will be available to you at various phases of your journey, from your first day at the University through your graduation and even as an Alumni.
  • The Centre's principal function is to assist you in exploring your interests and mapping them to a diverse range of opportunities. We believe that this will help you in developing your strengths and specific skill sets required for your professional goals. It also collaborates with Corporates and Community organizations (NGOs) to provide internships, learning, and employment opportunities.


For Learning Beyond The Classroom

Throughout your academic journey, the Centre focuses on both personal and professional growth. It assists you in planning your Program of Study through Academic Advising, collaborates with our Faculty, and develops a growth plan specific to your chosen track. It also helps you in developing skills such as communication, leadership, delivery, and presentation in order to be effective business leaders.

For Gaining A Competitive Edge

We believe that an opportunity to gain relevant experience and gain a realistic perspective of your chosen field will help in your professional growth. As part of your Program, the Centre collaborates with various organizations to provide relevant internships

For Real-World Readiness

The Centre also helps you develop the necessary skills required to stand out and be ready for the corporate world. This is done through Training & Development programs including aptitude tests, AMCAT, six-sigma, and so on.

For Personal And Professional Growth

The Centre helps you prepare for the next step in your career by opening avenues to help you gain significant work experience. It also provides guidance and training for higher studies. This includes preparation for competitive exams such as the CAT and GMAT, among others. The Centre also provides support for other tracks including research or starting your own start-up

Student Support

Festivals And Clubs

Literary and Cultural Festivals

The University is your stage. You can organize and participate in the Annual Cultural Event at VU. The event is a platform for new-age sports like choreographed formations and volleyball. You can also explore performing arts and a variety of activities like music, theater, group dances, stand-up comedy and fashion shows.

 

Associations And Tie-Ups:

  • Centre for Sports Excellence : CSE is a world-class integrated sports complex, located just 10 minutes away from Vidyashilp University. As a VU student, you get access to state-of-the-art sports facilities for Cricket, Badminton, Swimming, Football, Tennis, Squash, Athletics and more.
  • Embassy International Riding School : The Embassy International Riding School is India’s premier horse-riding school. You can explore structured riding lessons by experienced trainers, and master equestrian sports
  • Taaqademy (Bengaluru’s premier music school) : Whether you’re into composing, performing, or practicing for fun, your music needs the right platform. Vidyashilp University has partnered with Taaqademy,  founded by award-winning band Thermal And A Quarter (TAAQ). Taaqademy has trained 50,000+ students over the last decade

 

Vidyashilp Research Centre (VRC)

  • As a first step towards realizing the mission and research objectives, Vidyashilp University has established the 'Vidyashilp Research Centre' (VRC). This Centre, along with the Schools of the University and other Centres/Academies established for specific purposes, leads the way and evolves plans and projects to build the research capability and contribution of the University.

The key objectives of VRC are to:

  • 1. Inculcate research and innovation culture among faculty members and students
  • 2. Promote interdisciplinary research
  • 3. Undertake joint research projects in collaboration with other universities and institutions
  • 4. Facilitate faculty members and students to undertake research projects in nascent/emerging disciplines and of social relevance
  • 5. Submit research proposals and seek grant from research funding agencies and other organizations
  • 6. Document reports, monographs and publish research papers in reputed journals to disseminate the learning and results from the research projects
  • 7. Organize interactions with entrepreneurs, industrialists, NGOs, philanthropists and faculty members of the university to exchange ideas and generate collaborative research aligned to the some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • 8. Support the Ph.D. Programs of the University
  • 9. Establish Post-Doctoral Research Programs

 

Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CLST)

  • Reimagining education is an undertaking that requires a fundamental commitment. The CLST creates an ecosystem bringing together educators and experts from around the world to advance teaching, learning and instructional design.

 

Centre of Social Innovation (CSI)

  • The CSI works to create a sustainable society through social innovation and research. Its aim is to champion, change and provide solutions to identified societal challenges in rural contexts, particularly in the state of Karnataka.

Campus Info

#125, Bettenahalli, Kundana Hobli, Chapparkallu Rd, Bengaluru, Karnataka 562110