UPES, a leading multi-disciplinary private University, introduces a new phase (Virtual Reality) in higher education counselling process. Counselling program for thousands of students starts from May 31st to June 3rd, 2018 in nine cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Dehradun, Bhopal, Lucknow, Patna, Jaipur and Chandigarh and it claims to be a one of a kind counselling program which will be highly immersive and tech-driven experience. With the introduction of VR, the counselling sessions will be more engaging and allow the students and their parents to virtually experience the UPES campus.

The B.Tech counselling will be conducted by industry experts from IBM, Xebia, and more and they’ll be taking sessions for students and parents. Along with this, UPES is also offering

‘Experience Zones’ across the nine venues that allow the participants to walk-through information on the engineering students’ projects, extra-curricular activities and life beyond academics at UPES to lead an exciting college life.

Subhrangshu Neogi, Chief Commercial Officer, UPES, says, “Consumers in general and millennials specifically are becoming increasingly nonlinear in their decision making. Before considering and choosing any product or service they ideally would want to immerse themselves in the decision-making process. Education, as a high involvement category is definitely no exception. With a view to be more relevant to today’s millennials and their parents and also to enable them to take a worry free informed decision about their future, we at UPES decided to launch this unique, industry first, immersive and experiential counselling process”.

Founded in 2003, UPES is a UGC- recognized and NAAC-accredited University which is rated by QS Ratings with five Stars for both employability (placements) and campus facilities and four stars for teaching. UPES offers specialized graduate and postgraduate courses through its five schools: School of Engineering, School of Computer Science, School of Design, School of Law and School of Business. With a track record of 90 percent placements since last years, it shows the commitment & quality of students and the teaching approach followed by UPES.

Additionally, UPES provides specialized B.Tech programs through its two schools namely, the School of Engineering, and the School of Computer Science at its picturesque Dehradun campus. Amazon, IBM, L&T, Nestle, Vedanta, Weatherford Drilling, Adani Gas, Adani Ports & SEZ, Global Data, Indian Navy are some of the recruiters for UPES B.Tech students.