Can Tho University

Can Tho University

Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
Established	1966
President	Hà Thanh Toàn
Vice-president	Trần Trung Tính; Trần Ngọc Hải; Nguyễn Hiếu Trung
Academic staff	15
Location	Can Tho , Vietnam
Website	www.ctu.edu.vn

Can Tho University (Vietnamese: Trường Đại học Cần Thơ) is a public research university in Can Tho, Vietnam. Established in 1966, it is a multidisciplinary university and a leading university in the Mekong Delta.[1] Can Tho University is a leading agricultural research center in Vietnam. Can Tho University has nine colleges and three research institutes.[2] Its goal is to be one of the leading higher education institutions in Vietnam and to be recognised as one of the top universities in the Asia-Pacific region in training and research by 2022.[3]

Description

At present, the total number of CTU staff is around 2,000, including 1,203 lecturers (233 PhDs and 653 Masters, constituting to 73.6% of staff members with postgraduate degrees).[4] The current training capacity of CTU is more than 45,000 students involving full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students, part-time as well as distance-learning ones.[1] CTU possesses approximately 100 training programs and branches of undergraduate including 2 advanced training programs in English, 45 Master training programs (in which 1 program is a joint-ventured training field with foreign partners and 3 programs are taught in English) and 16 PhD ones, together with 2 training programs of junior college.

Up to now, Can Tho University (CTU) has 17 units for academic training (8 colleges, 7 schools, 1 high school, 1 unit for academic training) and several other support departments.

Colleges

This is a list of colleges the university has:[5]

• College of Agriculture
• College of Aquaculture and Fisheries
• College of Economics
• College of Engineering
• College of Environment and Natural Resources
• College of ICT
• College of Rural Development
• College of Natural Sciences

Schools

• School of Education
• School of Foreign Languages
• School of Graduate
• School of Pre-University
• School of Political Science
• School of Social Sciences and Humanities
• School of Law

High school and academic training

• High school Teacher Practice
• Department of Physical Education

Centers and institutes

Centers

• Cantho University Software Center (CUSC)
  • Academic Department
  • Software Department
  • Plan and Business Department
• Center for Foreign Languages
  • Academic Department
  • Administration Department
  • Offices located in Campuses 1, 2, 3 and a contact staff in Campus 4 (Hoa An)
• Cooperative Training Center
• Center of National Defense Education

Institutes

• Biotechnology Research and Development Institute
• Mekong Delta Development Research Institute
• Research Institute for Climate Change

References

1. "Can Tho University". Times Higher Education (THE). 2020-02-04. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
2. "Can Tho University". Times Higher Education (THE). 2020-02-04. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
3. "Can Tho University". 19 October 2021.
4. Bapna, Arun (2017-05-21). "Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Viet Nam". MBBS Admission Process 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
5. Nguyen, Van Thang (December 2008). "Final Evaluation of the CTU-IUC partner programme - Can Tho University" (PDF). Retrieved 3 April 2020.

• https://en.ctu.edu.vn/
• https://www.4icu.org/reviews/4885.htm

External links

• Homepage of Cantho University

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