Victoria University College (Myanmar) is a private university college in

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

. Being the first private university in the country, Victoria University College comprises four campuses - three in

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

, one in

Mandalay Mandalay ( or ; ) is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. Located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631km (392 miles) (Road Distance) north of Yangon, the city has a population of 1,225,553 (2014 census). Mandalay was fou ...

History

Nay Win Naing, founded the Victoria University College (Myanmar) in 2012. It started as a college which offered Edexce

Business and Technology Education Council The Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) is a provider of secondary school leaving qualifications and further education qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Whilst the T in BTEC previously stood for Technical, acco ...

Higher National Diploma Higher National Diploma (HND), part of the Higher Nationals suite of qualifications, is an academic higher education qualification in the United Kingdom and various other countries. They were first introduced in England and Wales in 1920 alongs ...

s and sixth forms subjects. Later in 2014, VUC became an international teaching center of

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and offer joint

Bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to si ...

Courses delivery

Since 2012, Victoria University College has been delivering the below BTEC HND Courses; # Business (Management/ Marketing/ HR), # Computing (Software/ Network/ IT) and # Engineering (Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Electronics Engineering). The University of Wolverhampton has been in partnership with Victoria University College since May 2014, delivering the following courses; # BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering # BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering # BA (Hons) Business Management # BEng (Hons) Mechatronics # BSc (Hons) Computing and Information Technology # MSc Programme and Project Management

Sports team - VUC athletics

Victoria University College has been sponsoring a professional Futsal football team under University's name since 2015. Victoria University College Futsal Club is now competing in National's Myanmar Futsal League.

References

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