SVNIT Surat - Admission 2024, Fees, Courses, Placement, Ranking

The 250-acre Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat campus has everything a student will need for their overall development. The SVNIT campus is located in Surat. The institute's attractive and quiet campus is spread across a large area of land. The Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology campus is home to over 1000+ students and professors and has classrooms, complexes, residential staff quarters, a healthcare centre, and an administration block.

Furthermore, the SVNIT Surat campus has a sports field for indoor and outdoor games, a gym, a library, a mess, and retail facilities.

Library

The SVVNIT Surat campus includes a central library, one of the institute's most critical primary amenities. The SVNIT library has a huge collection of books, journals, previous year's question papers, etc., with a diverse and high-quality collection of information resources in science and technology. For greater access to information, the institute built an E-Library where students may simply log in and advance.

SVNIT Surat library was relocated in 2017 to a new building with three large floors, central air conditioning, three lifts, an RFID system, CCTV cameras, and a fire alarm system to provide students with modern facilities. The new library building is known as the ‘Green Building’ because it features a solar-panelled roof.

The SVNIT Surat central library now houses 1,00,737 books and 9,825 e-books, online journals, and databases the eSS consortium offers. Furthermore, the library has been granted access to approximately 3900 online scientific and technological research articles from major publishers. 

Hostel

The SVNIT Surat hostel facility is available on campus for students. There are a total of nine hostels present on the college campus, namely Swami Vivekanand Bhavan, Mother Teresa Bhava, Bhabha Bhavan, Gajjar Bhava, Tagore Bhava, Sarabhai Bhava, Nehru Bhava, Raman Bhava, Narmad Bhava, seven for boys, one for girls, and one for the guest house.

All of the SVNIT Surat hostels have basic amenities such as furnishings, wifi/ LAN internet access, Mess and recreational amenities such as fully equipped sports facilities, music rooms, magazine rooms, and television rooms. There is a common room where all hostel-level meetings are held. Students observe Ram Navami, Sharad Utsav, Saraswati Puja, Krishna Janmashtami, Ganesh Puja, Holi, Diwali, and New Year's Eve, among other holidays. Every year, each hostel celebrates Hostel Day with food and music.

SVNIT Surat hostel is managed by a distinct body, the ‘Council of Warden’. The chief warden and hostel wardens make up the ‘Council of Wardens’, with the Co-Chairman serving as ‘Associate Dean’ (Students Welfare) and the Chairman serving as Dean (Students Welfare).

Aside from the council, there is a student-run committee called the ‘Hostel Management Committee, which elects students to hostel secretary, joint hostel secretary, mess secretary, sports secretary, magazine secretary, cultural secretary, technical, environmental secretary, and welfare secretary. Through the various SVNIT student secretaries, the CoWs organise the year's events for the students, set the budget for sports, recreational, and other social activities, and operate individual messes with the SVNIT Surat mess committee in collaboration with chief wardens and wardens.

Transportation

At regular intervals, the institute runs buses from the main entrance to various portions of campus, including the hostel and academic zones. Bicycles and walking are encouraged on campus. Students are not authorised to drive motorised vehicles.

Canteen

The SVNIT cafeteria is beside the central library building. The canteen offers a variety of cuisines, including North Indian, South Indian, Chinese, Gujarati, and fast food. On all working days, the canteen is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Guest House

The five-story Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Bhavan (SVPB) Guest House has 84 rooms, eight suites, two offices, three conference rooms, a kitchen, and two dining halls. It was built in 2008 to host training programmes, seminars, workshops, and conferences. Staff, students, alumni, and local, state, and federal government entities can use this facility.

Health Centre

SVNIT Surat offers an outpatient department (OPD) staffed by one full-time resident doctor and six visiting medical consultants (physician, gynaecologist, paediatrician, radiologist, Ayurveda and homoeopathy specialist), two pharmacists, and other support personnel. The SVNIT health care centre services students, employees, and family members.

The facilities/ programmes that are available in SVNIT health care centre-

• Group Medical Insurance
• Emergency Medical Service
• Ambulance Service
• Vaccinations
• Bone Density Screening Program
• Lecture series and counselling on Adolescent health.
• Anaemia Screening and Management.
• Thalassemia Screening Program
• Blood Donation Program
• Awareness lectures on tobacco/ alcohol/ Substance abuse.

Day Care Centre

The SVNIT Surat daycare centre at the institution is a one-of-a-kind facility. It was established on October 31, 2006, and is designed exclusively for the children of employers, PG students, and research scholars. It is a community amenity mainly designed for the benefit of employees. It is fully stocked with toys and activities for kids.

Security

The security supervisor and security guards make up the ‘Security Department’. Their primary responsibility is to safeguard the Institution's property while also ensuring law and order on campus. Vehicles arriving and departing are rigorously inspected, and entries are recorded in registers. Parades are held often to ensure strong discipline and a good turnout.

Physical education centre

The Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat has created great sports, games, and yoga facilities for the university community to participate in various sports, sports, and fitness activities to stay fit and healthy.

The outdoor games available are-

• Basketball (two courts)
• Cricket
• Football
• Handball
• Kabaddi
• Kho-Kho
• Volleyball (two courts)
• Lawn Tennis (two international standard courts)
• Athletic Track (400m)

The indoor games available are-

• Badminton ( two international standard synthetic courts)
• Chess
• Caroms
• Table Tennis
• Ultra-Modern Gym 

Central Computer Centre

In 1995, the Institute developed the ‘Central Computer Centre’ as one of its premier ‘Central Learning Resource Centres’. It is the core of the SVNIT Surat computing resources as well as the foundation of the Institute's internet connectivity. The ‘Central Computer Centre’ primarily handles internet access and campus-wide network connectivity for academic and administrative departments and dormitories, and staff quarters.

Wireless access has been provided throughout the SVNIT Surat campus academic zone, including all departments, labs, workshops, the ‘Central Computer Centre’, the library, the hostels, and the canteen, all of which are managed centrally from the ‘Central Computer Centre’. Individual login ids are offered to users, including students and staff, who may use the workstations for email, internet surfing, and general-purpose programming.

Festivals

The SVNIT Surat has student-organised festivals such as:

• Mindbender
• The welcoming first-year programme, Kashish/Abhinandan
•  Dasvidaniya (final year farewell)
• Sparsh
• Quest, by organised ACM
• Ignis, a Sports festival)
• Grand Robo Prix-GRP
• Makerspace, by organised DRISHTI
• JoyFest, by organised India
• MMNCT
• SIPHON, organised by the Chemical Engineering Society
• AATISH, organised by the Electrical Engineering Society
• Prakriti, organised by the Sciences department

Centre for Continuing Education

The Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) at SVNIT was founded in February 2017 with the primary goal of providing skill-development training programmes and value-added courses to faculty, research scholars, UG, PG students, and industry professionals by regularly planning and organising Workshops, Short-term training programmes, Events, Expert talks, and Conferences based on the MHRD guidelines.

Student Organisations

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology has several student organisations. Student groups exist to give chances for students to interact, study, and lead, allowing them to follow their hobbies and interests while also gaining leadership and organisational abilities.

• CHRD (Centre for Human Resource Development)
• DSC (Developer Student Clubs) Student Chapter
• DRISHTI (Technical Hobby Club) 
• Official Language Implementation Committee (Hindi Cell)
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Student Chapter
• CEV (Cutting Edge Visionaries)
• LAC (Literary Affairs Committee)
• SCOSH (Society for Cultivation of Sciences and Humanity)
• EES (Electrical Engineering Society)
• ISHRAE (Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers)
• NSS (National Service Scheme)
• ChES (Chemical Engineering Society)
• CES (Civil Engineering Society)
• SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)