The University of Da Nang (UD) is making every effort to become a world-class research university in the near future.  Over recent years, UD’s member schools have attached importance to training high-quality human resources involved in scientific and hi-tech aspects within the current context of deeper global economic integration.

In addition to their time-honoured conventional training programmes, the universities of Technology and Economics have, since 2006 and 2011 respectively, deployed many high quality programmes meeting international standards.

Students from the advanced engineer training programme at the University of Technology

Over 100 graduates from the first high-quality course at the University of Economics recently received their Bachelor's degrees after they had made successful oral defences of their theses in English.  It is reported that the majority of the Bachelor holders who completed the courses in 2011 and 2012 have found suitable jobs after graduating.  These fruitful results have marked initial success for the school’s high-quality programmes.

Currently, about 900 students from the university are attending the high-quality courses even though their tuition fees are 3 times higher than those of the conventional courses.  As for the enrolment requirements for these courses, those who have passed their university entrance exams are also required to have passed English tests. 

During the courses, the trainees must acquire 20 credit points in English language, a nearly 3-fold increase compared to the conventional courses at the university.  In particular, the majority of the subjects are usually taught in English and some of them are guided by foreign professors.

Under the courses’ strict criteria, their graduating full-time students are required to achieve an IELTS score of at least 5.0, and their information technology certificates must meet the Microsoft standards.

Meanwhile, advanced engineer training programmes have been running at the University of Technology since 2006.  Their focus has been on training qualified lecturers, learning about training methods and techniques which are being successfully applied in US universities, upgrading educational equipment, evaluating the quality of the courses, and developing high-quality human resources meeting the recruitment requirements of local companies.

The advanced courses on Digital System and Embedded System are now being offered to students from the university.  The courses feature training methods which are similar to those in the US universities of Washington and Portland State. 

Taught by PhDs and professors from these foreign universities, the courses will offer a good opportunity for students to achieve high proficiency in the English language. 

The UD’s Director, Professor Tran Van Nam, emphasised the need for his university to build classrooms meeting international standards, buy modern teaching equipment, and carefully select experienced lecturers in order to ensure the success of the high-quality training programmes.