PERI Education offers various engineering, degree and diploma programs to students through its constituent colleges. One such program is the VDFT - Vocational Diploma (Industrial Fitter) course in association with TNOU (Tamil Nadu Open University).

The primary goal of the VDFT program is to encourage Skill Development through a Participatory Learning System. The Program is offered with Industry alliance, wherein the learners will undergo practical on-the-job training in identified Industries which will constitute a majority component of the course. The practical training is augmented with classroom training and assignments to reinforce the learning acquired from OJT.

The course is ideally suited for candidates particularly rural youth, unskilled workers, and those who have discontinued formal education due to personal, social and financial reasons and who now wish to upskill themselves and seek regular employment in industrial establishments engaged in production and manufacturing activities. Those who have completed 18 years of age and are educated up to the tenth standard are eligible to enrol in this course.

The establishment can engage Student-Trainees enrolled in the Vocational Diploma course at PERI to undergo On-the-Job training at their facility/site.