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

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

External links

Homepage of Cantho University

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[:0-1] "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.

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