The University of Da Nang now has 9 member schools and units with a total of 2,290 staff members along with 84,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students.  Three of the university’s 1,530 teaching staff members are Professors, 60 are Associate Professors, 286 are Doctors, and 928 are Masters.  Currently, the university is offering 17 training programmes for Doctorates, 32 for Master’s degrees, 101 for those at university level, and 29 at college level.  In addition, there are 47 inter-disciplinary programmes for graduates from colleges, technical and vocational training schools, along with other training courses for those who want to upgrade their knowledge.  All these figures were officially released by the Director of the university, Associate Professor Tran Van Nam.

Secretary Tho (fifth left) and some representatives from the university

Over recent years, the university’s training programmes have seen an average growth of 8.7% year-on-year, and since 2010 42 new training programmes have been added at the university.  This is in accordance with the university’s incentive strategies for multi-disciplinary training to satisfy the increasing demand for human resources.  In recent years, the quality of tertiary graduates has been improved considerably.  In particular, most of them have good foreign language speaking skills, high-level professional qualifications, and can effectively adapt to new working environments.  In addition, most graduates have found it easy to get a good job after their graduation, and their qualifications have met their jobs’ requirements.

In a recent meeting, the Secretary of the municipal Party Committee, Mr Tran Tho, asked the university’s staff members to make every effort to make it one of Viet Nam’s 5 largest tertiary institutions in the near future.  In addition, importance will be attached to training high human resources for the city’s progress, as well as remedy any shortcomings in its training programmes.  The university was urged to make plans to upgrade the University of Da Nang-University of Queensland English Language Institute in the city into the Viet Nam-UK International University.  Also, the Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty under the University of Da Nang will be converted into the city’s Medicine and Pharmacy University in the near future. This will help Da Nang to deal with the current shortage of doctors at local hospitals, as well as to make it an intensive medical hub in the central region in the years ahead.