In the 2023-2024 academic year, with new opportunities and challenges, in the spirit of the educational philosophy of “Humanity – Dedication – Liberation”, VKU has united step by step to firmly build and develop a large-scale, high-quality human resources, pioneering in opening new training majors, affirming VKU’s position, enhancing VKU’s prestige and quality in enrollment, training and scientific research, promoting international activities, focusing on connecting Southeast Asia and the world, strongly applying technology in digital transformation. With great solidarity, efforts and determination, in the 2023-2024 academic year, VKU has achieved outstanding and impressive achievements. Let’s take a look back at 10 outstanding imprints of VKU in the past academic year.

1. The first university in the central region to announce enrollment and training of IC Design Engineers

With the position of a leading public university, VKU is well aware of its responsibility and mission in training and providing high-quality human resources in IC and AI. Accordingly, VKU has actively implemented many activities, being the pioneer in completing procedures and announcing enrollment of IC Design Engineers since 2024, with a total expected training target of 600 – 1,000 engineers by 2028. On the other hand, VKU also opens master training courses, develops research groups, builds packaging and testing training plans, enrolls upskills classes for students and trains lecturers. In particular, VKU cooperated with DSAC Center to organize the first training course of IC Design source lecturers for Da Nang city, put into use the Center for IC and Smart Technology, the Lab for Experiments and New Technology Research.

2. 100% of students enrolled with high admission scores among TOP universities nationwide

In 2023, VKU continued to have a successful enrollment season, belonging to the Top universities with high admission scores in the country and the highest in the Central Highlands. The admission scores continuously increased compared to previous years for all 15 majors/minors. For academic records admission, the scores ranged from 24 to 26 points; For high school exam admission, the scores ranged from 22 to 26 points, the average admission score in 2023 increased by 2 points compared to 2022 and by 6 points compared to 2020. In particular, the number of candidates admitted directly to the school increased rapidly with more than 400 students, accounting for nearly 30% of the total 1,535 students enrolled, bringing the total student population of the school to nearly 6,000 students.

3. Strengthening and expanding cooperation with many domestic and international strategic partners

Recognizing the importance of cooperation, connection and internationalization, VKU has chaired and initiated the establishment of the ASEAN Consortium for Innovation and Research (ACIR) with the first 7 members from Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar which has been highly appreciated by the community of scientists and universities in the Southeast Asian region and actively supported by KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency), FISU Vietnam and leading domestic and international scientists.

VKU also strengthened the expansion and exchange of cooperation with many strategic partners, signed 18 MoUs in implementing 3+1, 2+2 joint training programs, and invested in facilities to meet the needs of training high-quality human resources in the fields of IC and AI.

4. Implementing international projects to contribute to improving the training capacity and quality of VKU

VKU has actively conducted international cooperation projects, including the project to improve the capacity of education – training, administration and research during the period of 2022 – 2027 worth 7.7 million USD from non-refundable ODA capital of the Korean Government. The project has a particularly important strategic goal of developing VKU into a leading university in Vietnam according to international standards in administration, training, scientific research, innovation, international and business cooperation with four main goals including: Advance VKU to the first digital university in the Central region; Training and developing a team of highly-qualified lecturers, good at expertise, profession and research capacity in line with international standards; Improving and accrediting training quality, building new breakthrough programs, leading society and the global labor market; Promoting innovation, research, startups, business connection, cultural and academic exchanges with the world and Korea.

5. Successfully organizing many large international conferences in the fields of Information Technology, Communications, Digital Economy and Radio-Electronics

VKU organized many large international conferences, gathering many domestic and foreign scientists to participate, in which, the CITA (Conference on Information Technology and its Applications) initiated by VKU in 2012 is a series of scientific conferences on information technology and its applications in various fields, creating a forum to gather and connect domestic and international researchers, scientists, and experts to participate in publishing, discussing and sharing new issues. In particular, CITA 2024 – The 13th Conference has marked a remarkable development, affirming the prestige, scale and quality of an international conference, especially Volume 1 of the conference proceedings continued to be published in Lecture Notes in Network and Systems (Springer) in the DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science databases with an acceptance rate of 25%.

6. Successfully chairing and hosting regional and national academic competitions and playgrounds

VKU has successfully chaired and hosted regional and national academic competitions and playgrounds, including the Informatics Olympiad in the Central – Central Highlands chaired by VKU, initiated in 2020, with the enthusiastic participation of candidates from primary, secondary, high schools, and specialized high schools across the country, demonstrated through impressive numbers during the past 5 years. In particular, the 5th event in 2024 has gathered many excellent candidates who have participated in many national and international competitions, which is a strong proof to affirm the prestige and quality of the Informatics Olympiad in the Central – Central Highlands, reaching the stature and standards of national and international competitions.

7. Strengthening bilingual training programs English – Vietnamese, Japanese – Vietnamese, Korean – Vietnamese and academic exchanges to contribute to international integration of students

VKU always identifies clearly its mission and responsibility in training, providing high-quality human resources, scientific research, knowledge and technology transfer, with the vision of becoming the leading university in the country and the aspiration of reaching international standards in the fields of information technology, communications and digital economy. VKU has been cooperating with many partners to organize bilingual training courses for Engineers/Bachelor’s degrees in English-Vietnamese, Japanese-Vietnamese, Korean-Vietnamese, and to enhance academic and cultural exchanges with universities in Southeast Asia. A typical example is the cooperation model with NiX Education to train bilingual IT Engineers in Japanese-Vietnamese, which has achieved many impressive results after 1 year of training. Accordingly, 2 excellent students attained Japanese level N3, 11 students were selected by Japanese companies for internships and paid part-time work, and students were able to communicate in Japanese with the company through chat software to solve problems in their work.

8. 100% of students defend their graduation thesis entirely in English and 95% of students have jobs within 6 months after graduation.

In the 2023-2024 academic year, VKU witnessed 288 students of the 2019 course completing the training program on schedule and meeting output standards. 100% of students who completed their graduation thesis entirely in English received graduation certificates, of which 25% of students graduated with Excellent and Good grades. The employment rate of graduates is very high, with an average salary of 8-15 million VND/month or more. Most of them have jobs at leading domestic and international enterprises, including Daewoo, Hitachi, LG, FSoft, Enclave… Among these students, many of them were “ordered” by large enterprises when they were only 2nd and 3rd year students. Besides, many students have achieved remarkable and proud achievements in international and national academic and startup competitions.

9. VKU students have achieved many outstanding achievements in scientific research, innovation, creativity and startup activities at the international and national levels.

In the 2023-2024 school year, VKU students have continuously achieved many high and comprehensive awards in international and national competitions. Typically, in the field of scientific research, students have won 1 Second Prize at the Ministry level, 1 First Prize at the City level and 1 Second Prize at the University of Da Nang level. In the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, they have won the First, Second and Third prizes at the National Future Creation Award – VietFuture 2023 and the runner-up of the GBA Business Challenge 2023. In addition, they also earned many other awards at domestic and international academic competitions such as 1 Second Prize at the Open-Source Software competition, 2 Second Prizes and 1 Third Prize at the majored category of the 32nd Vietnam Student Olympiad in Informatics, Third Prize in the Practical Exercise for Responding to and Handling Information Security Incidents in the Central – Central Highlands region, etc. These impressive achievements of the student teams have once again affirmed the prestige and training quality of VKU with advanced training programs, appropriate access to technology and foreign language training environments right from years 1 and 2.

10. Enhancing position, promoting the school’s reputation and strengthening the building of great solidarity with the spirit of VKU – Aspiration to advance beyond

VKU is not only the leading training and research university in the Central – Central Highlands region, but also plays an important role in many organizations and professional communities. VKU initiated and chaired the establishment of the ACIR Community, opening up opportunities for cooperation and development in the field of information technology and communications. At the same time, VKU is also an active member as Vice President of FISU Vietnam, Danang City Informatics Association, President of FISU Central – Central Highlands, demonstrating its role, position and prestige in promoting technology training and research activities in the region.

In the 2023-2024 academic year, VKU continued to improve its organizational structure, appointing 1 Vice President and many leadership positions to manage functional units under the school, maintaining unity in leadership and management, internal solidarity, keeping up average income growth for the staff over the years. Renovating and developing the landscape, creating a modern, green-clean-beautiful environment, along with many activities to improve the spiritual life of the staff and students of the whole school.

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