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VICAS

The Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Mylapore, Chennai institutes a learning center in the name of Vivekananda Institute of Career Advancing Studies (VICAS), serving as an umbrella institution to facilitate hands-on training programs in various practical domains for upskilling the students with new age skills that surpasses the prescribed curriculum. This way VICAS brings to fruition the college’s initiative of advancing studies and in also fulfilling the vision of the Government of Tamil Nadu in imparting skill development to the students. 

  • VICAS shall serve as a knowledge hub for fostering intellectual, creative, and value oriented professional excellence in the students.
  • VICAS aims at providing a common platform for a dynamic learning environment, bilateral relations with the industry for knowledge sharing and research exploration, targeted skill development, training in advanced academics, entrepreneurial leadership development, student counselling and placement.
  • VICAS shall stay committed to growth of students consistent with the man-making message of Swami Vivekananda not losing sight of the value proposition in each of the various initiatives.
  • VICAS shall serve as a platform for academicians of international repute and industry experts to galvanize the academic potential in students.
  • In short, VICAS envisages to equip students with integrated acquisition of knowledge, values and skills necessary for industry readiness as well as for pursuing higher education and research.

Raison D'être

In the practice of college education the degree curriculum is typically designed to conform to standards laid down by the parent academic body, in order to be uniform to its stakeholders for maintaining parity in evaluation, in order to support mobility across similar placed institutions, and in order to suit the available expertise among the inhouse teaching fraternity. However the trending times provide a lot of opportunities for lateral and multi-disciplinary growth which the college students are either not aware of or not able to make use of due to the inertia and resistance to changes. The fixed curriculum based education too is not flexible to cater to the training, upskilling needs suited to the prevailing demands. Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College finds VICAS as a rightful integration within the college environment so as to achieve the following objectives centered in the development of the student potential.