On May 31, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Hanoi National University) in collaboration with the Thang Long Education Accreditation Center held a ceremony to award the accreditation certification for 7 university-level training programs.

The training programs of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities awarded with accreditation certificates include: Journalism, Public Relations, Management Science, Hotel Administration, Office Administration, Religion studies, and Vietnamese studies.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dang Thi Thu Huong, Vice-Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, said that the university is the first training institution of Hanoi National University to build a Center for Education Quality Assurance (since 2006) and is also one of the pioneers in building an internal quality assurance system, strongly implementing self-assessment and external assessment activities for training programs.

Until recently, there have been 18/31 bachelor's degree programs of the university accredited according to domestic and international standards. Among them, seven accreditation certificates awarded today represent two important industry groups, highly applied training disciplines and basic sciences.

Train high-quality and highly skilled human resources for the sake of industrialization, modernization and international integration are VNU USSH’s objectives. Specifically, provide favorable conditions for the promotion of creativity, thinking and a start-up spirit, and create an open, friendly and harmonious academic environment, etc. so the intellectuals, learners and society participate in the development of USSH and contribute to forming a learning Society.

Every academic year, USSH’s faculties and divisions, centers and research institutes invite at least one expert from a prestigious foreign university to teach and have academic discussions at the University. The number of invited experts increase over time. Create majors and minors approved by VNU, continue to polish the current programs in an inter-disciplinary manner, extend high-quality programs based on a socialized approach, and propose the formation of some advanced programs that are inter-disciplinary; extend international cooperation with prestigious regional and global universities.

Focus on training high-quality human resources at all three levels: bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral. By 2025, the number of graduates will have been maintained at 20% of all the University’s students. By 2025, the number of regular students will have been 7.800 and that of talented high school students 300. 2% of the regular students will have been foreigners.

By 2025, 10% of the graduated students will have studied such majors as Oriental studies, International studies, Journalism, Public Relations and Tourism; who are good at both professional knowledge and foreign languages and can successfully take part in the market of the ASEAN Economic Community.