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FPT University

Coordinates: 21°1′43″N 105°46′48″E / 21.02861°N 105.78000°E / 21.02861; 105.78000
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FPT University is a private university in Vietnam. FPT University is a member of FPT Corporation - one of the units on ICT training in Vietnam.

Educational Programs

High school education

Established in 2013, headquartered in Hoa Lac High-tech Park, the FPT High School is a boarding school run under the international boarding school model.

Facilities

Hanoi

Ho Chi Minh City

Da Nang

History

When founded in 2006, Dr., Associate Professor Truong Gia Binh , FPT Corp chairman of management board, was in charged of FPT University chairman, while Dr Le Truong Tung was the first Dean.[1][2] It is the first private university to be opened in Vietnam.[3]

Dr Le Truong Tung was in the position of FPT University Rector as well as FPT University chairman of BoD in 2011. Dr Dam Quang Minh has become FPT University Rector since September 2014, the youngest rector in Vietnam at that time. There are currently 20,000 students at FPT University studying full academic bachelor, partnership programme, postgraduate, polytechnic and high school.

All instructors would be required to have two years' working experience in the IT industry, and have to sit for an entrance examination. Foreign language teaching would form an integral part of the curriculum, and they aim to recruit native-speaking foreign language teachers and subject area teachers who can deliver their lessons in English.[4] After one year of language preparation, a foreign language would be used as the medium of instruction for all courses.[3] English would not be the only such language used; the Vietnam Software Association are working with the school's embedded software faculty to establish a programme in Japanese language.[5]

FPT University will award a scholarship named Nguyen Van Dao to honour the memory of his great support when FPT University was founded. Professor Nguyen Van Dao was a world acclaimed mathematician and one of Vietnam’s leading education administrators. Microsoft, which is a strategic partner of the managing organization FPT, have an arrangement with the university to offer training to their students on Microsoft technologies.[6] At US$11,200 for the four-year course of study, the university's fees are extremely high, especially when compared to the US$720 cost of four years at a public university.

The fight to gain permission to open the university itself represented a rarity in Vietnam; the Ministry of Education (Vietnam) were originally unwilling to grant permission for the university to be opened, and delayed for two months the necessary approval for the university to begin enrolling students. FPT used the media to put pressure on the Ministry, which eventually signed the official approval document on 15 November 2006.[7]

The University currently runs a collaborative program with the University of Greenwich, UK. The off-site Top-up +2, which commenced in August, 2009, is a collaborative program between the University of Greenwich in the U.K. and FPT University in Vietnam and this is currently the only program in Vietnam that awards Aptech graduates a U.K. bachelors’ degree in only 1 year.[8]

References

  1. ^ "FPT University receives licence". Vietnamnet Bridge. Vietnam News Agency. 2006-09-28. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
  2. ^ Hai, Ho (2007-07-24). "FPT's Creativity City". Vietnam Economic News Online. Ministry of Trade, Vietnam. Archived from the original on 2008-01-01. Retrieved 2008-01-13. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2011-10-03 suggested (help)
  3. ^ a b "First Private University in Ho Chi Minh City to be Established". Sai Gon Giai Phong. Party Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City. 2007-04-06. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
  4. ^ "FPT University targeting experts, overseas professors". Vietnamnet Bridge. Vietnam News Agency. 2006-12-08. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
  5. ^ "Embedded software: golden chance to VN enterprises". Vietnamnet Bridge. Vietnam News Agency. 2006-08-08. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
  6. ^ "Microsoft, FPT tie up to develop Asia-Pacific image". Thanh Nien Daily. Vietnam National Youth Federation. Archived from the original on 2008-05-23. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  7. ^ Le, Cam Le (2006-12-25). "Blazing the trail". Vietnam Economy. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
  8. ^ "Opening Ceremony of the First Foundation Classes for Off-Site Top-Up Program +2 in Vietnam".

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