Vinh University

Vinh University is located in the heart of Vinh City, Nghe An Province, in central Vietnam. The University was first established in 1959 as the Vinh Teachers’ Training College. Since its creation, Vinh University has become a major centre for education, training and scientific research in all of Vietnam. The University attempts to train students to become dynamic, creative and achieve excellence in both academic knowledge and social understanding, to meet the needs of today’s society. It has a combined enrolment of 46,000 students shared between two campuses and 18 teaching and research departments. With about 1,016 staff among them 644 lecturers, 56 professors and associate professors, 166 doctors and 422 masters, 133 senior lecturers, Vinh University is responsible for training 50 undergraduate majors, 35 master majors and 15 doctoral majors. One practical school including Kindergarten, Primary and Middle School; one Gifted Student High-School and one representative office in Ho Chi Minh-City are also its active components. Vinh University with a training scale of 46,000 students is considered as one of the most prestigious Vietnamese universities. Thus it was recognized as an important centre for education, scientific research and technology exchanges not only in Northern Central Vietnam, but also nationwide, notably as one of sixteen key universities of Vietnam in 2011 according to the development policy by the Prime Minister of Vietnam.