Threshold for assurance of admission quality for health-related majors in Vietnam in 2024

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On July 19, 2024, the Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam issued Decision 1957/QD-BGDDT to determine the threshold for assurance of admission quality for health-related major in Vietnam in 2024 with professional certificates at the university level in 2024.

Threshold for assurance of admission quality for health-related majors in Vietnam in 2024

The threshold for assurance of admission quality from high school graduation exam scores for enrollment in the health sector group with professional certificates at the university level in 2024 for candidates in area 3 has the minimum score (not multiplied by coefficient) of all combinations including 3 exams/subjects as follows:

Universities, academies, and colleges training in the health sector group with professional certificates at the university level organize admissions for candidates using high school graduation exam results according to the current regulations of the Regulation on university admissions, college admissions in Preschool Education and related guiding documents.

Regulations on admission thresholds for certain majors in Vietnam

(1) The admission threshold for teacher training and health sector with professional certificates is annually announced by the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam for full-time training admission methods using high school graduation exam results.

(2) For non-full-time training admissions or admission methods not using high school graduation exam results, candidates meet the admission threshold for teacher training and health sector with professional certificates when:

- Grade 12 academic performance is ranked as excellent or the high school graduation assessment score is 8.0 or higher, except as specified in point b of this clause;

- Grade 12 academic performance is ranked as good or the high school graduation assessment score is 6.5 or higher for majors in Physical Education and Sports Training, Music Education, Art Education; college level Preschool Education and majors in Nursing, Preventive Medicine, Midwifery, Dental Prosthetics Technology, Medical Laboratory Technology, Medical Imaging Technology, Rehabilitation Technology.

(3) Candidates who are first-class athletes, champions, athletes who have won medals at the Phu Dong Health Association, national and international youth competitions, candidates in the majors of Music Education, Art Education with talent contest scores held by the training institution achieving excellent (from 9.0 or higher on a 10.0 scale) when registering for admission to appropriate majors do not have to apply the admission threshold.

(4) For candidates who have graduated from the intermediate level in teacher training applying for college level Preschool Education, the training institution prescribes and is responsible for explaining the admission threshold.

(5) Candidates who have graduated from intermediate level or higher in the same application group are applied the admission threshold as follows:

- For candidates applying for university level in teacher training and health sector with professional certificates except as specified in point b of this clause, the admission threshold is applied to one of the following criteria:

+ Grade 12 academic performance is ranked as excellent or the average score of all high school culture subjects is 8.0 or higher;

+ High school graduation performance is ranked as excellent or grade 12 academic performance is ranked as good and has 3 years of work experience in the trained specialty;

+ Graduation from intermediate, college, university level achieved excellent or higher;

+ Graduation from intermediate level, or college level or university level achieved good and has 3 years of work experience in the trained specialty;

- For candidates applying for university level in majors in Nursing, Preventive Medicine, Midwifery, Dental Prosthetics Technology, Medical Laboratory Technology, Medical Imaging Technology, Rehabilitation Technology, Music Education, Art Education, Physical Education, Sports Training, the admission threshold is applied to one of the following criteria:

+ Grade 12 academic performance is ranked as good or the average score of all high school culture subjects is 6.5 or higher;

+ High school graduation performance is ranked as good, or grade 12 academic performance is ranked as average and has 5 years of work experience in the trained specialty;

+ Graduation from intermediate level, college level, university level achieved good or higher.

(6) For those who were admitted or have graduated from teacher training majors before May 7, 2020, if applying for university level to achieve the standard as stipulated in Article 72 of the 2019 Education Law, the admission threshold is determined by the training institution.

(7) Based on quality assurance requirements, the training institution determines and announces the admission threshold for majors, groups of majors, and admission methods at least 10 days before the end of the application period. For the admission threshold for teacher training and health sector with professional certificates, the threshold determined by the training institution must not be lower than the provisions in (1), (2), (5).

(Article 9 of the Regulations issued with Circular 08/2022/TT-BGDDT)

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