TO 2020, THERE ARE 2 MILLION STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
This is the content of the Decision No. 37/2013/QD-TTg of June 26, 2013, on the adjustment of the master plan on the university and college network in the 2006-2020 period.
Accordingly, by 2020, the aggregate university and college training scale will reach 2.2 million students (an increase of around 1.8% over the 2010-2011 academic year) and the formal training enrollment will reach around 560,000 students (a rise of around 8.2% over 2010); and the country will have 460 universities and colleges, of which 224 will be universities.
The university and college network is regionally arranged as the northern mountainous and midland region is expected to have 57 schools by 2020, including 15 universities and 42 colleges; the Red River delta is expected to have 157 schools by 2020, including 91 universities and 66 colleges; the northern central region and the coastal southern central region is expected to have 88 schools by 2020, including 38 universities and 50 colleges;
the Central Highlands region is expected to have 15 schools by 2020, including 5 universities and 10 colleges; the southeastern region is expected to have 93 schools by 2020, including 55 universities and 38 colleges and the Mekong River delta is expected to have 50 schools by 2020, including 20 universities and 30 colleges.
Besides, one of the targets emphasized by the Prime Minister that by 2020, to have 256 students per 10,000 people, around 70-80% of university students to be trained under applied career programs and 20-30% of students to be trained under research programs; to have 17-26 university and college students per lecturer; around 21% of university lecturers and around 4% of college lecturers to hold a doctorate degree and after 2020, the land area and construction area of universities will reach the standard on the average study space per student; to form clusters of foreign-invested universities in Vietnam;
The Decision takes effect on September 1, 2013.
