University enrollment 2022 and the fear of tuition increases

According to Decree 81 on collection and management mechanism and tuition fee exemption and reduction policy, from the academic year 2022 – 2023 to the academic year 2025 – 2026, the tuition fee ceiling for public higher education institutions is not yet autonomous. will increase (except for majors II, Arts). Especially, sector VI.2 (Medicine) increased by 71.3% (from 1.43 million VND/month to 2.45 million VND/month).

Most of the remaining sectors increased by more than 20% to nearly 30%, while the fourth sector (Life Sciences, Natural Sciences) increased more moderately, at 15.3%. For public higher education institutions with level 1 autonomy (self-financed recurrent expenditure), the highest tuition fee for Medicine and Pharmacy can be up to 4.9 million VND/month/student.

As for schools with level 2 autonomy (guaranteeing recurrent and investment expenses), the maximum tuition fee for the Medicine and Pharmacy group can be up to over 6 million VND/month.

Pham Ngoc Thach Medical University expects the highest tuition fee for the whole year of 2022, about 44.5 million VND/student for Medicine, Pharmacy, and Odonto-Stomatology. Compared with the tuition fee of 32 million VND/year/student in 2021, this year, the school’s tuition fee increased by 40%.

Hong Bang International University also plans to increase tuition fees. Specifically, the tuition fee for the Vietnamese language program in Odonto-Stomatology in 2022 is 105 million VND/semester/student, while the old rate is 91 million VND/semester/student. With the training program in English, the tuition fee increased from 110 million VND/semester to 125 million VND/semester/student. With other subjects of the school, the increase is lighter.

University of Economics, Vietnam National University, Hanoi is expected to increase tuition fees for the enrollment course in 2022. The fee for the 2022-2023 school year is 42 million VND/student, compared with 35 million VND/year/student for the 2021 intake has increased by 24.5%.

The University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City will be autonomous from 2022. Therefore, the school’s tuition fee is expected to increase from 16-60 million VND/year/student. This tuition fee has increased from nearly double to double compared to 2021. Therefore, there are 6 majors that are difficult to enroll in, supported by the National University of Ho Chi Minh City with 35% of tuition fees, namely Philosophy, Religion, and History. , Geography, Information – Library, Archives.

Tuition fees only increase

The academic year 2022 – 2023 is the first year that universities implement Decree 81 of the Government for a new tuition fee increase roadmap from 2022 to 2026. According to this roadmap, tuition fees every year only increase gradually, there is no reverse. again.

Up to now, 100% of universities across the country have announced their enrollment plans, many schools have received application documents but “forgot” not to disclose tuition fees. For example, Van Lang University, University of Technology under Hanoi National University, University of Industry, Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy…

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This year, although the Ministry of Education and Training has not issued the Regulation on enrollment, the schools have made it public enrollment information and conducted an examination. Therefore, candidates have the right to know the tuition fees of the schools applied from 2022.

Assoc. The tuition fee is not publicized so that candidates and their families can assess their economic strength, until entering school, it is very difficult for students to “turn around”.

Mr. Dung added that, over the years as an admissions officer, he noticed that there were a number of higher education institutions that were “smeared” when they did not disclose the tuition fees for the entire course. In the first year, to attract candidates, the tuition fee may be announced at a moderate level, but in the following years, tuition fees skyrocket. Or there are higher education institutions that announce the tuition fee per unit of credit but do not announce the total number of credits students must complete until graduation.