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    INTRODUCTION

University of Transport in Ho Chi Minh city (UT – HCMC) is the biggest multi–major institute in transport industry of the South of Vietnam. It is located in Ho Chi Minh City, the center of economy, science, education of Vietnam. The UT-HCMC has duty to educate officials with BSc, MSc in  transport industry fields as road, sea, rail, inland waterway and civil aviation.
Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem paid a state visit to HCMUT

I.  EDUCATION PROGRAMS

  • Postgraduate: 2 years (M.Sc)
  • Long term program: 4 - 5 years
  • Short term program: 3 years
  • In –service program: 4 years
  • The second university degree program: 2 years.
  • Changing occupation course (changing from other fields to maritime industy): 5 months
  • Instant and speacial subject: training and issuing maritime  certificates (according to the standards of International maritime Organisation) foreign language and IT certificates…

 

II. THE SIZE OF TRAINING

The total number of students (Nov. 2006) is 12,700 including students of all training programs.

 

III. EDUCATION MAJORS

The long term consists of 19 major fileds:

  • Navigation
  • Marine engineering
  • Marine Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Electricity – Electronics and Telecommunication
  • Industrial Auto-electrical Engineering
  • Shipbuilding and Floating Construction
  • Mechanisation of handling
  • Waterway and Offshore Engineering
  • Waterway Transport Safety
  • Bridge and Highway Construction
  • Information Technology
  • Automobile Mechanics
  • Building Machinery
  • Sea Transport Economics
  • Construction Economics
  • Electrical engineering
  • Computer system engineering
  • Civil and Industry construction Technology
  • Transport Planning

The second university degree program consists of 2 major fields:

  • Naval Architecture and Floating Construcstion
  • Sea Transport Economics

* The Short term program includes 5 major fields:

  • Navigation
  • Marine Engineering
  • Information Technology
  • Automobile Mechanics
  • Sea Transport Economics

The postgraduate program comprises of 5 major fields:

  • Marine Technology
  • Automatization
  • Ship Operation and Maintainance
  • Navigation
  • Transportation Managerment

 

V. ACHIEVEMENTS

            UT-HCMC facilities including basic and advance computer labs, multi-media labs, dormitory, laboratries, training bases in District Binh Thanh, District 2, District 12, Vung Tau city are on the way of being developed and completed…
Reinforcing high qualified teaching staff to improve education quality is our key responsibility. Besides training students , UT-HCMC specialized background for transport industry such as road, sea, rail, inland waterway civil aviation transport.  
            Many Topics and projects are being carried out: Subjects focused on essential industries such as ship building industry and automobile mechanical engineering, traffic urban management, metro, underground construction; International cooperation on research of waterway transport and seaport planning in the Southeast Asia; Project on technical assistance from the Government of Norway, Project of EU on strengthening the Environmental policy of Asian maritime transport, ODA fund project of the Government of Japan, DANIDA project on ferry in Mekong Delta (Denmark); Project of shipnewbuilding 2,000 DWT for training and productive work ; Cooperation with Universities from Russia, the Netherlands and Australia for training; Particularly project on conducting the Joint Venture company between UT-HCMC and the Foundation for Shipping and Transport Education (STC-Group) the Netherlands for training and exporting Vietnamese seafarers…etc. State scientific reseach subject “The simulation of controlling transport equipment”…

For above-mentioned achievements, we were honourably awarded the 3rd Labour Medal by the President and lots of congratulating certificates by the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Training and Education, Federal of Labour, Youth Communist Party in Ho Chi Minh City

VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

  1. Member of the Japan Society for the Promotion Science (JSPS)
  2. Official member of the Association of Maritime Education and Training
    institution in Asia Pacific (AMETIAP)
  3. Member of International Association of maritime Universities (IAMU)
  4. Project on conducting the Joint Venture company between UT –HCMC and the Foundation for Shipping and Transport Education (STC-Group) the Netherlands for training and exporting Vietnamese seafarers.

    


Opening ceremony of the Project funded by Royal Danish Embassy

VII. CENTERS AND COMPANIES

  1. Maritime Training Center
  2. Transportation Consultative and scientific – Technical Service Company
  3. Center for scientific Reseach and Technology Development of Transport
  4. Center of Foreign Language and IT
  5. The JV company

Address: No 2, D3 Street, Van Thanh Bac site, Ward 25, Binh Thanh Dist., Ho Chi Minh City.
Tel: (08) 8992862 – 8991373
Fax: (08) 8980456
Email:hcmut@hcm.vnn.vn
Website: http://www.hcmutrans.edu.vn
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