Choosing a university: Tuition or public-private concept?

Public or private schools; training quality; tuition fees are 3 common criteria that candidates and parents need to pay attention to when choosing a university. The following article will help candidates and parents have more necessary information to make the most correct decision to choose a school.

Public school or private school?

Dai Nam University received a Certificate of Merit from the Prime Minister on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the school's founding (July 14, 2017).

For a long time, the concept of public and private schools has not been a heavy burden in the thinking and perception of people in the South. Candidates and parents in the South do not insist on going to public universities. What they care about is choosing a university with a suitable major; quality training that is practical and suitable for their own abilities; which school cares about teaching students with good knowledge, who can secure jobs after graduation; the tuition they pay is commensurate with what they receive from the school...

Gone are the days when public universities were the first choice.

In reality, this is also an inevitable trend because in the world today, private school systems are often better than public schools in every aspect.

In the North, when private universities focus on investing in facilities, teaching staff, and changing training programs to meet business needs, people also gradually change their perceptions and have a more correct and fair view of private schools.

In the process of choosing a university, many candidates and parents worry that studying at private schools will not be taught by good teachers like at public schools. Surveys at non-public universities such as Dai Nam University, FPT University, Thang Long University... show that all schools have a number of permanent and guest lecturers selected from top public schools such as Hanoi University of Pharmacy; Foreign Trade University; National Economics University; VNU...

Especially with foreign languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.), the key subjects for students to integrate into the world and have a high-income job, private schools are a strength. Schools spare no expense to invite native lecturers to teach at the school to help students quickly absorb and achieve the best training quality.

Private school facilities are continuously and proactively invested in timely manner.

Not to mention that private schools today have many policies to attract talent, so 100% of the school's permanent teaching staff are carefully selected and imbued with the spirit of considering students as customers to serve training, just like the declaration of Dr. Le Dac Son - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dai Nam University "anything that is harmful to students, no matter how small, will be resolutely not done; anything that is best for students, will be done with all our heart and soul..."

It is worth mentioning that agencies and businesses today are no longer as important as public or private schools. For them, a degree is just a passport for you to get into a job interview. If you can do the job, that degree is valuable. On the contrary, if you can’t do the job, that degree is meaningless.

Training program and quality

Sharing with us, many businesses said that in the past, most businesses had to retrain their employees after graduating from university before they could be employed. This reflects the problem of the quality of university education in both the public and private university education systems. However, due to the mandatory requirements of competition, many private universities have succeeded in creating a “ difference ” in the quality of training.

For example, Dai Nam University, after less than 1 year, to train students in hotel and tourism management, the school has taken over and operated 3 large practice hotels, 3 in Hanoi, 4 stars in Bac Ninh and 5 stars in Da Nang to both do tourism business and serve as practice facilities for students. Nursing students of Dai Nam University are sent to Japan for internship right after completing their first year, both to gain early practical experience and to have high income like a graduate. For Pharmacy, Dai Nam has continuously invested in modern facilities right at the school with a modern machinery system and opened a GPP-standard practice pharmacy to serve the study of Pharmacy practice. In addition, the school has also established Finance - Banking and Accounting - Auditing Practice Centers..., is one of the few universities to include soft skills in formal training; is the first university in the North to apply TOEIC output standards from 450 points.

Dai Nam students can go to Japan for internship from the first year.

Tourism students of Dai Nam University do internship at the school's 5-star Rosamia - Da Nang practice hotel.

Tuition: The idea that public schools are… CHEAP is outdated.

One factor that needs to be considered when deciding whether to study at a public or private school is tuition fees. Parents and candidates need to research this issue very carefully before choosing a school. The old concept that studying at a public school means that tuition fees will be cheap is completely incorrect.

Dai Nam University students continuously study English with native speakers.

Currently, there are many public universities with "huge" tuition fees that are not inferior or even higher than private universities, such as: Hanoi University of Science and Technology tuition fees range from 41 - 91 million VND/year (for Vietnamese students), from 69 - 137 million VND/year (for international students); Foreign Trade University tuition fees for the general program are 18.3 million VND/year, high-quality program is 33 million VND/year; advanced program is 55 million VND/year and is adjusted to increase every year but does not increase more than 10%/year; University of Finance - Marketing tuition fees for the general program are 18,000,000 VND/year, high-quality program is 36,300,000 VND/year, international program is 55,000,000 VND/year; The tuition fee for the regular program at the National Economics University is from 15.5 to 18.5 million VND/school year depending on the major; Hanoi University of Industry is 16 million VND/year, and the University of Commerce is 15 million VND/year. The tuition fee increases every year, but there is no commitment to keep the tuition fee constant throughout the study period...

Dai Nam University's tuition fees are publicly listed and we are committed to not increasing tuition fees throughout the entire course.

Instead of choosing schools with high tuition fees, candidates should choose schools with reasonable tuition fees while still ensuring good training quality. For example, Dai Nam University has tuition fees that are suitable for the general level, ranging from 12-24 million VND/year depending on the major, much lower than Van Lang University (28-40 million VND/year depending on the major), Lac Hong University (22-32 million VND/year depending on the major), Hanoi University of Business and Technology (12-60 million VND/year depending on the major), FPT University and Thang Long University. In particular, Dai Nam University's tuition fees are publicly listed and committed to not increasing tuition fees until graduation.

Thu Hoe