Saigon Technology University
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Đại Học Công Nghệ Sài Gòn - STU | |
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| Motto | Strength-Talent-Young |
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| Type | Technical University |
| Established | 1997 |
| President | Cao Hào Thi Prof. Dr. |
| Address | 180 Cao Lo Street, Ward. 4, Dist. 8, Ho Chi Minh City , , |
| Colors | Red and Blue |
| Website | www.stu.edu.vn |
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Saigon Technology University (Vietnamese: Đại học Công nghệ Sài Gòn) is a university in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was established from the Ho Chi Minh City Technology College, founded on 24 September 1997 by Decision number 198/QĐ-TTg signed by the prime minister of Vietnam. In March 2005, the prime minister signed Decision 52/2005/QĐ-TTg to rename and recognized the upgrading of this college; the name of the university was officially changed. The university provides undergraduate and graduate education and have cooperative education agreements with Troy University from the United States.
Saigon University of Technology started as Ho Chi Minh City Engineering College (SEC). SEC was set up pursuant to the Decree No. 198/QD-Ttg on 24 September 1997. SEC was the first national college specializing in training disciplines of engineering and technology fields. In April 2004, basing on the training capacity and achievements, the government issued the Decision No 57/2004/QD-Ttg to grant the college to University status, called Ho Chi Minh City Engineering University (SEU).
In March 2005, the university was renamed Saigon Technology University (STU) according to the Decision No 52/2005/QD-Ttg.
Due to the high assessment of STU lecturers and infrastructure, the Ministry of Education and Training allowed the university to start the in-service training system, besides the regular one (based o¬n the Decision No 3410/QD-BGD&DT) and begin a university-level course program (according to the Decision No 7373/QD-BGD&DT, now called successive system into university).
Bachelor’s degrees and diplomas in Engineering at STU are included in the national degree system and are valid nationwide.
At present, STU has the function of training from technical junior level to tertiary one, and implementing applied research in Mechatronics, Telecommunications, Informatics Technology, Industrial Electricity, Automatic Control, Food Technology, Civil Engineering and Business Administration.
Training process
The first college students started their formal studies on 29 December 1997. The school opening ceremony was two months later. The number of the first course students was 800 and the second was 900. Because of local socio-economic development and increased capacity of the school since the beginning of the third course (1999–2000), about 1300-1400 new students are annually recruited. From the academic year of 2004–2005, of the 1400 new students, 50% studied at the university level and 50% at the college level. Since the academic year 2004–2005, the student population has been increasing gradually and there are over 3000 students in school year 2008 - 2009. This raises the student total to about 9,3000.
In early 2006, the university-level completion program started the first course. With good memories of the original university, confidence in the qualifications and dedication of the STU lecturers, over 1000 college engineers, graduating at the junior college level from STU, and 350 degree holders from other colleges eagerly attended the first university-level completion course. After the third semester of “completion”, they will have a university bachelor's degree.
STU has become a comprehensive and flexible training University with its training systems: professional secondary system, traditional university and college system, non-traditional system and university-level completion program.
Mission
Saigon Technology University started on Ho Chi Minh City Engineering College (SEC). SEC was set up with the function of multi-disciplinary training and fields at the levels of junior education, tertiary education, and higher education; providing high quality of human resources having vocation for technology; being good at virtue, education level, foreign languages, and professional knowledge. These could meet the higher and higher socio-economic needs in developing trends of our country, society, and learners.
