VNUHCM - International University (Ho Chi Minh City International University,

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

ese: ''Trường Đại học Quốc tế, Đại học Quốc gia Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh'') is the first and unique English-medium public research university in Vietnam. Established in 2003, it is now becoming as one of the leading research powerhouse in Vietnam. The university is affiliated to the

Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM, vi, Đại học Quốc gia Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh) is one of the two largest national research universities in Vietnam (the other is Vietnam National University, Hanoi), founded on 27 ...

(VNU-HCM). The university conducts all its administrative, academic, and research activities in Thu Duc university village, a 77 hectare joint land endowment between

Ho Chi Minh City , population_density_km2 = 4,292 , population_density_metro_km2 = 697.2 , population_demonym = Saigonese , blank_name = GRP (Nominal) , blank_info = 2019 , blank1_name = – Total , blank1_ ...

and Binh Duong Province. It is home to Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development, a non-profit organisation that works closely with the United Nations and other 136 RCEs to incorporate sustainable development into education. The teaching is conducted in English. In addition to entrance exams, students also have to write an English language test or obtain

TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL ) is a standardized test to measure the English language ability of non-native speakers wishing to enroll in English-speaking universities. The test is accepted by more than 11,000 universities a ...

TOEIC The Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native speakers. It is intentionally designed to measure the everyday English skills of people working in an ...

IELTS The International English Language Testing System (IELTS ), is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers. It is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia an ...

or equivalent English certificate as required by HCMIU and its cooperative universities. Besides offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs in business studies and engineering, HCMIU also offers a number of other courses related to the two fields.

Admission

Although most of the courses offered at HCMIU are conducted in English, some courses are required to be conducted in Vietnamese as well. These includes: business administration, finance & banking, logistics, biotechnology, biochemistry, food technology, electrical engineering, automation & control, information technology (computer science engineering), biomedical engineering, civil engineering, industrial systems engineering, space engineering, environmental engineering, financial engineering & risk management (applied mathematics) and English language.

Cooperative and Twinning Programs

A number of the universities in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand have formed educational partnerships with the university. The students can study at the university for two or three years, followed by two or three years of study abroad. The tuition fee is higher than in other Vietnamese universities. Diplomas will be issued by HCMIU's cooperative universities. United States: *

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

Binghamton University The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university with campuses in Binghamton, New York, Binghamton, Vestal, New York, Vestal, and Johnson City, New Yor ...

University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the List of universities in Texas by enrollment, university in Texas ...

United Kingdom: *

The University of Nottingham , mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom , established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status , type = Public , chancellor ...

University of the West of England The University of the West of England (also known as UWE Bristol) is a public research university, located in and around Bristol, England. The institution was know as the Bristol Polytechnic in 1970; it received university status in 1992 and ...

Australia: *

The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public university, public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight (Australian universities), ...

New Zealand: *

Auckland University of Technology Auckland University of Technology (AUT) ( mi, Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau) is a university in New Zealand, formed on 1 January 2000 when a former technical college (originally established in 1895) was granted university status. AUT ...

Postgraduate Programs

# Doctor of Biotechnology (Phd in Biotechnology) # Doctor of Business administration (Phd in Business administration) # Master of Business Administration (MBA in Finance, Technology Management, Marketing) # Master of Science in Biotechnology (MSc in Biotechnology) # Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSc in Electrical Engineering) # Master of Science in Information Management (MSc in Electrical Engineering) # Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering (MSc in Biomedical Engineering) # Master of Science in Industrial Systems Engineering (MSc in Industrial Systems Engineering) # Master of Science in Applied Mathematics (MSc in Applied Mathematics) # Master of Science in Leadership, joint program with

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in ...

, United States (MSc in Leadership)

Schools and Departments

Currently, International University has 4 schools and 6 departments as listed below:

School of Business

Programs offered: *

Business Administration Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...

, with 4 specializations: **

Business Management Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...

Marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

** Hospitality - Tourism Management **

International Business International business refers to the trade of goods, services, technology, capital and/or knowledge across national borders and at a global or transnational scale. It involves cross-border transactions of goods and services between two or more ...

* Finance and Banking, with 2 specializations: **

Corporate Finance Corporate finance is the area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the Value investing, value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and anal ...

Banking A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because ...

and

Financial Investment Investment is the dedication of money to purchase of an asset to attain an increase in value over a period of time. Investment requires a sacrifice of some present asset, such as time, money, or effort. In finance, the purpose of investing i ...

School of Biotechnology

Programs offered: *

Biotechnology Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used b ...

, with 4 tracks: ** BioMedical ** Molecular ** Industrial **

Marine Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean. Marine or marines may refer to: Ocean * Maritime (disambiguation) * Marine art * Marine biology * Marine debris * Marine habitats * Marine life * Marine pollution Military * ...

and

Environmental Science Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geograp ...

Food Technology Food technology is a branch of food science that deals with the production, preservation, quality control and research and development of the food products. Early scientific research into food technology concentrated on food preservation. Nic ...

, with 2 tracks: ** Production Management ** Technology-Engineering * Aquatic Resource Management, with 2 tracks: ** Management ** Technology *

Chemical Biology Chemical biology is a scientific discipline spanning the fields of chemistry and biology. The discipline involves the application of chemical techniques, analysis, and often small molecules produced through synthetic chemistry, to the study and ma ...

School of Electrical Engineering

Programs offered: * Electrical Engineering, with the following specializations: **

Electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

and

Embedded Systems An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is ''embedded'' as ...

** Telecommunication Networks **

Signal Processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniq ...

RF Design ''Defense Electronics'' (formerly ''RF Design'') is a Penton Media trade magazine A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audien ...

Automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

and

Control Engineering Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls o ...

School of Computer Science and Engineering

Programs offered: *

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

, with 3 specializations: ** Network Engineering **

Computer Engineering Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers ...

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

Departments Biomedical Engineering

Programs offered: *

Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

, with 4 tracks: ** Medical Instrumentation ** Biomedical Signal and Image Processing **

Pharmaceutical Engineering Pharmaceutical engineering is a branch of engineering focused on discovering, formulating, and manufacturing medication, analytical and quality control processes, and on designing, building, and improving manufacturing sites that produce drugs. I ...

Regenerative Medicine Regenerative medicine deals with the "process of replacing, engineering or regenerating human or animal cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function". This field holds the promise of engineering damaged tissues and organs by st ...

Department of Industrial Systems Engineering

Programs offered: * Industrial Systems Engineering *

Logistics Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of ...

and

Supply Chain Management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and stor ...

Department of Civil Engineering

The department offers the program of

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

Department of Physics

The department offer undergraduate program in

Space Engineering Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...

which specialises in

Image Analysis Image analysis or imagery analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques. Image analysis tasks can be as simple as reading bar coded tags or as sophi ...

and

Remote Sensing Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied especially to acquiring information about Earth ...

. It is responsible for all Physics courses. Its scientific research includes the fields of

Galactic Astronomy Galactic astronomy is the study of the Milky Way galaxy and all its contents. This is in contrast to extragalactic astronomy, which is the study of everything outside our galaxy, including all other galaxies. Galactic astronomy should not be co ...

and

Plasma Physics Plasma ()πλάσμα
, Henry George Liddell, R ...

Department of Mathematics

The department offers the program of Applied Mathematics with the specialization of

Financial Engineering Financial engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving financial theory, methods of engineering, tools of mathematics and the practice of programming. It has also been defined as the application of technical methods, especially from mathema ...

and Risk Management. It is also responsible for other mathematical-related courses.

Department of English

The English Department provides globally standardized language programs to assist students in their studies, which are conducted wholly in English.

Accreditation

The International University has received accreditation from the ASEAN University Network - Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) for the following programs: *

(2009) *

(2011) *

(2012) *

and

Telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

(2013, AUN - DAAD) * Industrial Systems Engineering (2015)

Student life

Student organizations

Students at the International University run over 15 clubs and organizations, including volunteer groups, academic clubs and common-interest teams. Most organizations are funded and governed by the Youth Union and the Students Union, while a few others are directly run and supported by Schools and Departments. Youth Union: * Event Department * External Relations Department * Information Department * Science and Technology Department Students Union: * Social Work Team (SWT) * English Teaching Volunteers (ETV) * Arts Team (Arteam) * Enactus IU (formerly SIFE IU) * Soft Skills Club (SSC) * ISE Art club (IAC) * Guitar Club (GC) * English Club (IEC) * French Club (FC) * Sports Club (SC) * Japan Club * Korean Club (KYG) Other organizations: * Securities Exchange Club (SEC) * Marketing Club (Martic) * IT Club (ITC) * English Speaking Club (ESC) * IU Buddy (Exchange student support group)

Student accommodation

Students can register for housing services at the following dormitories: * VNU-HCMC Dormitory * VNU-HCMC Guest House * Dormitories in city center: Phan Liem and Ly Van Phuc streets.

Campuses

* IU Main Campus, Thu Duc * Ground floor, VNU-HCMC Central Library * IU City Campus, 234 Pasteur, District 3 (old address: 33 Ly Tu Trong, District 1)

Board of Rectors

Rector: A/Prof. Dr. Trần Tiến Khoa, ''PhD.'' Vice Rectors: * A/Prof. Lê Văn Cảnh, ''PhD.'' * Dr. Hồ Nhựt Quang, ''PhD.'' * A/Prof. Đinh Đức Anh Vũ, ''PhD.''

References

External links

Official Website
{{Coord, 10.8777, N, 106.8020, E, source:wikidata, display=title Universities in Ho Chi Minh City Educational institutions established in 2003 2003 establishments in Vietnam