Nguyen Tat Thanh University was recognized as a 3-star University according to QS Stars standard

Nguyen Tat Thanh University was recognized as a 3-star University according to QS Stars standard

QS Stars is a university rating system took place by Quacquarelli Symonds organization (England). QS provides two main types of university ranking that includes ranking and defining stars. All universities that participate in the ranking type of defining stars will be ranked from 1-star to 5-star level.

Nguyen Tat Thanh University was officially recognized as one of the three universities in Vietnam that is ranked as a 3-star university based on QS Stars standard – One of the most quality university ranking standards of the world.

According to the rating system of QS Stars, a university that is ranked as a 3-star university must be nationally well recognized and may have also attracted international reorganization. Besides that, this institution has to maintain a reputable level of research and its graduates are attractive to employers. For those reasons, Nguyen Tat Thanh University was very honored to be recognized by QS Stars. It was a strong evidence for NTTU to confirm its quality reputation. Moreover, it also helped to enhance the value of degrees that students have got from NTTU.

Ms. Mandy Mok – General Director of Asian QS Stars awarded the certificate of 3-star international standard  for Nguyen Tat Thanh University

Participated in the rating process of QS, Nguyen Tat Thanh University had previously undergone a lot of rigorous inspections that were conducted based multiple criteria: core criteria categories (teaching, employability, research, and internationalization), learning environment categories (facilities, online/ distance learning), specialist categories (accreditation and discipline ranking) and advanced criteria categories (social responsibilities, comprehensiveness).  In particular, the criteria of teaching, employability, facilities and social responsibilities were ranked at 5-star level – the highest level in rating system of QS. In addition, the criterion of comprehensiveness was defined 4-star while the research criterion was ranked at 2-star level.

At Nguyen Tat Thanh University, training quality was considered as the first priority.  After 17 years of formation and development, despite of its young age, the university has effectively taken advantage of its internal power that was created from the abundant experienced staff management groups coming from different businesses; combined with external forces of leading experts in academic and scientific research to support and prepare the best directions for young generations of training staff. The university constantly innovated and updated their knowledge and teaching methods. Besides that, they also paid attention to applying technology in teaching activities by using electronic education such as developing electronic learning materials, e-book, electronic library, textbook – electronic lecturers or realistic simulation programs that provided a good chance for students to practice, so that they would be more confident and ready for the strict screening of the labor market.

The percentage of students getting jobs after they graduated was up to 95% that has contributed to create the success of NTTU as well as enhance the student’s trusts in university training system. To achieve this rate, Nguyen Tat Thanh University has tried their best to promote its training relationship between different enterprises as they have created such a great model of enterprise club with the attentions of more than 400 members working in multiple fields. Thanks to the strong relationship with enterprises, NTTU students would have a chance to experience and practice, so that they could improve themselves in such a youthful, vibrant and challenging business environment. Nguyen Tat Thanh University signed a memorandum of comprehensive cooperation with different businesses to provide the best learning and working environment for students while they were still at the university: pharmaceutical factory, drug-testing center, drug trading and distributing company, hospital, Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company – Vinamilk…

Signing Ceremony between Nguyen Tat Thanh University and District 8 Hospital on ensuring the internship for 30 students at the hospital  

Regarding to infrastructure, Nguyen Tat Thanh University invested more than 2.000 billion dong to develop their facilities. In particular, the university built 100.000 m2 of floor, provided 3.000 computers and a lot of modern teaching equipments, developed the library. More than that, 100% classrooms, practice rooms and laboratories were equipped air conditioner with full Wi-Fi access.

Following a long tradition of promoting education and encouraging talents as well as fulfilling the wishes of Uncle Ho – “Everyone has food, clothing and access to education”, Nguyen Tat Thanh University soon recognized their important roles and responsibilities for helping to provide all students the best learning environment to continue their school dreams as well as their other ambitions. To have this mission completed, Nguyen Tat Thanh University has spent so many scholarships (their total values up to billions dong) in different ways.

About the criteria of research, although Nguyen Tat Thanh University was only ranked at a humble level of 2-star, they have made their really strong effort in their scientific researching process. During the period of 2011 -2016, Nguyen Tat Thanh University had nearly 400 scientific research projects at all levels. In particular, there were 14 State-level projects, 26 Ministry-level projects, 13 Department-level projects, 149 University-level projects and 165 projects of the university students. Every year, Nguyen Tat Thanh University spent billions dong to support the scientific research process of all personnel, lecturers and university students, so that NTTU could strive to become one of the top applied – practiced universities in Vietnam. From that, it could help NTTU to be more developed and abreast with the other regional as well as international universities. In the future, Nguyen Tat Thanh University would continue paying their attention to investing and developing their research activities.

After the first evaluation of QS Stars, Nguyen Tat Thanh University started to confirm its position on the international map of education. Moreover, based on this result, Nguyen Tat Thanh University could understand more about their strengths and weaknesses. The university would continue paying attention to promoting their quality, so that they could provide the best environment for training the most quality human resources and abreast with regional and international education levels.

On this occasion, The Department of Educational Testing and Accreditation highly appreciated the strong efforts and amazing results that Nguyen Tat Thanh University have achieved in term of quality assurance and accreditation in recent years. Nguyen Tat Thanh University was not only one of 03 first universities in Vietnam ranked at 3-star level according to QS Stars standard, but it was also a member of the ASIAN University Network (AUN). In addition, Nguyen Tat Thanh University was the first university in private sector of Vietnam was applied the evaluation method of self-assessment report and it would be continued evaluated by The Center of Education Accreditation – Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City at the end of 2016.

Article: Department of General Administrative