VietNamNet Bridge - Many students are surprised about rising tuition at universities. 

Students of Hanoi Economics University are criticising the school’s board of management’s decision to raise tuition, commencing from the 2016-2017 academic year.

Under the decision, the tuition K57 (second year students) and K58 students (who will enter the school after the summer) will have to pay VND375,000 per credit for training majors belonging to Group 1 (including information system management, information technology, economics and business law). 

The tuition is VND450,000 per credit for the remaining training majors which do not belong to Group 1 and Group 3, and VND530,000 per credit for general accounting, auditing, economic investment & international economics and corporate finance.

Students of Hanoi Economics University are criticising the school’s board of management’s decision to raise tuition, commencing from the 2016-2017 academic year.

Meanwhile, the tuition was VND295,000, VND355,000 and VND415,000 last year, respectively.

An international economics majoring student said that on average, a student registers 50 credits a year. This means that he may have to pay VND19-26.5 million a year, much higher than the VND14 million he had to pay last year.

“I know the tuition will be increasing as planned. But I cannot imagine tuition would soar so dramatically,” she said.

“A lot of friends of mine said they are going to register to study as many credits as possible this year, because they fear the tuition will even rise more sharply the next year,” she said.

On NEU Confessions, the school’s fanpage, there is high tuition. Some students said they may give up the study because their families cannot afford such high tuition levels.

A student predicted that if the current tuition increase is applied for the next years, the tuition would increase by 50 percent after four years of studying there. 

He also complained that while the tuition increases, the facilities remain the same, while many lecture halls have degraded seriously.

Students of the Vietnam Agriculture Academy are also worried stiff about the news about the tuition increase.

A student wrote on the school’s forum, calling on the school to reconsider the decision on raising tuition. 

“My family can save 4 million a month. If the amount of money is used to fund my study, how will my family live?” he wrote.

However, schools have no intention to reconsider the decisions. Pham Hong Chuong, vice rector of the Hanoi Economics University, told Infornet in an interview to the newspaper that the school strictly observed legal documents and fulfilled its commitments when drawing up the plan on raising tuitions.

He affirmed that the tuition set by the school is not the highest compared with other state-owned schools, though it is the leading school in Vietnam in economics training.


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