VietNamNet Bridge – In many state-owned universities, only one of every 18 students has a bed in a dormitory. Many people-founded universities do not have dormitories.

Only one of every 18 students has a bed in a dormitory

The Open University, which has 3,300 students (2,700 for the university training and 600 for the 3-year training), also has no dormitories. It does not even have its own classrooms; students now go to the hired classes.

Similarly, any new student who plans to study at the Dong Do People Founded University, will also be discouraged if he wants accommodations, as it is clearly stipulated in the universities’ enrolment handbook that students of Dong Do University have to arrange accommodations themselves.

The Van Hien and Chu Van An People Founded Universities all have given the same announcements. The students of Hoa Sen University, which provides training in three training groups and eight fields, have also been facing the same problem, as the university only promises to introduce boarding houses to students.

There are some universities which calculate tuition fees in dollars, but their dormitories remain on paper. The Huu Nghi Private Technology and Management University, for example, sets the tuition level at $5,000 per annum. Meanwhile, it does not have dormitories to provide accommodations for students.

When asked about the accommodations, the university said that it was enrolling 300 students for the first training course this year, while it will offer full scholarships to the students who have good study results. The university will arrange good accommodations for these students.

The tuition fee the students of the HCM City Economics and Finance University have to pay is VND45mil a year, which means the total tuition of VND180-215mil for the 4-year training course. Meanwhile, when asked about dormitories, the university said that it is still building dormitories, and that maybe the new students enrolled this year will be able to live in the dormitories.

Even the University of Odonto-Stomatology, which enrolls 100 students only per annum, also cannot arrange accommodations for students, and students have to seek boarding houses themselves.

One in every 18 has a bed in dormitories

While people-founded universities do not have dormitories, state-owned universities have, but don’t have enough rooms for all students.

Students of the Thai Binh Medical University, for example, never hope that they will have seats in dormitories, because the rooms here are reserved for special students (who come from poor families, from families who participated in revolutions) and students from mountainous areas. The university enrolls 3,500 students this year, but there are only 450 seats in dormitories. It has 10,000 students in total, but it has 2,000 beds only.

The Trade University enrolls 3,470 students this year, but it has 200 places in dormitories only. The Hanoi Law University plans to enroll 1,800 students, but the dormitory’s rooms are enough for 100 students only.

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