On 25th October 2024, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Villa College and the Chennai Institute of Technology, India.

The MoU aims to explore potential avenues of collaboration in the future, such as staff and student mobility and exchange, licensing of programmes, sharing of resources for research and library, collaborating on enhancing programmes, fostering cross-cultural understanding through joint activities, professional development opportunities, module mapping, and much more.

The MoU was signed by the Chairman of the Chennai Institute of Technology, Mr Sriram Parathasarathy and Vice Rector, Dr Ali Najeeb, who was accompanied by the Deputy Vice Rector, Mr Abdul Munnim Mohamed Manik, and Mr Margret Vijay, Director for Global Ranking Data Management & Analytics and Centre for Open and Distance Learning (CODL).