The government’s Resolution 165 requests public university education establishments to keep tuition stable this academic year (2022-2023). 

The tuition is equal to that set by the establishments for the 2021-2022 academic year in accordance with the government’s Decree 81 released in 2021.

Under the decree, the ceiling tuition of public university education in 2021-2022 at schools which are not under an autonomy regime are equal to the ceiling levels of 2020-2021, ranging from VND9.8 million and VND14.3 million (10 months).

As for schools which enjoy self-determination in regular expenses and investment expenses, tuition is VND20.5-50.5 million per academic year, depending on the academic major.

The HCM City Law University is re-calculating the tuition students have to pay. The students who have paid excessive money (the gap between the amount students paid and the real amount they have to pay in accordance with Resolution 165) will be deducted from the tuition for the second semester of 2022-2023. 

This means that students will only have to pay the remaining amount of money after the deductions.

In other cases, in which students have paid all tuition and only have one semester in the 2022-2023 academic year, the school will give them money back after clarifying the information.

Students enrolled in large-scale training programs will get back VND13 million. 

Students enrolled in high-quality training programs will get back VND17 million, and students enrolled in high-quality training programs taught in English will get back VND24 million. 

As for the HCM City University of Natural Sciences, this is the first year it runs under the self-determination mechanism so students will pay tuition as set in the university’s plan.

The HCM City University of Food Industry still collects the tuition as it announced before. Tuition is VND22-24 million a year and it will be unchanged through the entire learning process. The tuition is lower than the one stipulated in Decree 81, under which the university can collect VND32 million per annum for its training majors.

Le Huyen