Associate Professor Dr. Lai Quoc Khanh (Vice Principal of the School) chaired the Conference
In the summary report on regular university and postgraduate training enrollment activities in 2021, Dr. Hoang Van Quynh - Deputy Head of Training Department shared information: In 2021, the number of applications for university admission based on the high school graduation exam results for the School's majors/training programs (CTDT) increased by more than 42% compared to 2020 with 42,148 applications. Of which, the ratio of applications 1-2-3 alone accounts for over 44% of the total number of applications and no major/CTDT has the number of applications less than the announced quota. The number of applications for admission combinations with foreign languages accounted for over 72%, a sharp increase compared to the rate of over 60% in 2020. There were 1,577 applications with more than 2,800 applications for direct admission, priority admission, international certificate admission and competency assessment test results organized by VNU, more than double that of 2020.
Thus, the number of applications for all admission methods increased sharply compared to 2020, especially in methods such as international certificate admission and high school graduation exam results. Admission on the Ministry of Education and Training's common admission software was carried out publicly, transparently and accurately. The total number of candidates admitted to the whole school exceeded the set target, in which all majors/training programs achieved an admission rate of 100% or more. The admission confirmation and admission process in 2021 was carried out 100% online. Admissions consulting work still promptly implemented many activities both in person and online. Admissions for the second training program were also implemented as planned and met the target.
In addition, some limitations in the enrollment work were also pointed out such as: Communication work in general and promotion - enrollment consulting in particular are still lacking in synchronization between units in the school; the admission combination structure, admission conditions in some majors/training programs are still not suitable; some tasks in the enrollment implementation process are still done manually, without investment in information technology applications such as collecting applications for direct admission, priority admission, etc.
Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Thanh Nam (Head of Training Department) spoke at the Conference
In the 2022 admission season, to adapt to the complicated situation of the Covid-19 epidemic, some specific directions and activities in university admission activities are proposed such as: Focusing on building products and implementing forms of online admission promotion and consulting instead of direct consulting activities; Building an online registration software system for special admission subjects: direct admission, priority admission, admission based on competency assessment test results and international certificates; Adjusting admission combinations, adding conditions on academic results with the admission form based on high school exam results in accordance with the input quality requirements and training content of each major/training program; Increasing the admission quota ratio for special admission groups such as national excellent students, specialized students of specialized high schools, students with international certificates, students with VNU's National High School Exam results, etc.; Organize a series of online promotion and admission consulting activities with the theme "Road to USSH" with the following activities: livestream to introduce admission information, majors/training programs, training units, learning environment...; create videos, electronic lectures introducing course content or some typical and specific courses of each major/training program and post them on fanpage, youtube, website,... so that students can access and understand more about the majors/training programs of the School; edit and complete existing documents introducing majors and professions including "Handbook of social sciences and humanities", "Humanities Infographic - What to study? What to do?" and publish them as e-books; coordinate with VNU, universities, press and media agencies to organize online admission consulting programs, post admission information of the School,...
Regarding postgraduate admission activities, in 2021, the University organized 2 admission rounds, recruiting 376 graduate students and 69 doctoral students, both exceeding 100% of the assigned target. This year, the new point of postgraduate admission is that VNU added a direct master's admission method, flexibly changed the admission method from in-person to online to suit the complicated epidemic situation and encouraged candidates to confidently take the exam. The postgraduate admission work also received comments to overcome the limitations of: the difficulty in recruiting in some specific master's and doctoral majors and specialties; the limitation of distant majors and nearby majors of majors significantly affects the subjects eligible to take the master's entrance exam; the work of supplementing knowledge needs to be given more attention in some units; the communication and promotion work for postgraduate admission needs to be promoted...
At the Conference, Vice Principal Lai Quoc Khanh affirmed: Despite many difficulties, the School had a very successful admission period for all systems with an increase in the number of students registering for admission, and the quality of incoming candidates was assessed to be better than the previous period. This positive result was due to many reasons: the quality of the School's training activities was still guaranteed; the School still maintained its attractiveness in terms of reputation and brand in society; the adaptability and flexibility in admission work in accordance with the actual situation; the good coordination between units, the dedication of the team of teachers doing admission...
Dr. Hoang Van Quynh (Training Department) presented the Report on Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions in 2021 and Admissions Directions in 2022
The Vice Principal also emphasized that, in the long term, to attract students interested in studying the University's training programs, the most important thing that the University and training units need to do is related to the way of building training programs, the quality of the content of the training programs, the ability to connect between training programs... In the immediate future, restructuring of the university training programs will be implemented in the direction of increasing connectivity, inter-discipline, inter-field; increasing common credits to promote human resource connectivity, creating attractiveness for the training programs; increasing opportunities for dual degrees for students and expanding university entrance opportunities... 2022 will also be the year to promote quality assessment work in all systems, deploying conditions to build technical and economic norms for training programs. The University also requested units to promptly propose adjustments to the admission subjects, if any, and open timely and effective supplementary classes for university entrance exams. The school will also consider options related to the new regulation of VNU on not organizing foreign languages as an entrance exam for graduate level.
