Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the establishment of Tan Tao University (TTU) in the Mekong delta of Long An province, which is expected to begin enrolling students in the 2011-12 academic year.
Located on 103 ha in Tan Duc Educational City, some 12km from HCM City, the new private TTU is unique among Vietnamese universities because it is based on an American model and has a non-profit status.
TTU has been invested in and developed by Tan Tao Group, a leading diversified conglomerate encompassing industrial parks and infrastructure development that includes thermal power plants, renewable energy and water treatment plants, and media technology.
Teaching and studying at TTU will be conducted in English.
Students will study at the TTU campus for three years and the fourth year at a well-known university in the US, according to the Government's website.
Dung also appointed the Ministry of Education and Training to inspect TTU's necessary facilities before it is allowed to open any faculty and enroll students in various fields of study.
The chairwoman of Tan Tao Group and founder and chairwoman of the TTU Board of Advisors, Dang Thi Hoang Yen, said: "TTU is a Vietnamese university that will provide quality education to excellent students who need an opportunity (for an international-standard education)."
At its full operation, TTU will have nine schools, with schools of Business and Economics, Engineering, and Computer Science and Humanities and Languages to be established in the first year of operation./.
Located on 103 ha in Tan Duc Educational City, some 12km from HCM City, the new private TTU is unique among Vietnamese universities because it is based on an American model and has a non-profit status.
TTU has been invested in and developed by Tan Tao Group, a leading diversified conglomerate encompassing industrial parks and infrastructure development that includes thermal power plants, renewable energy and water treatment plants, and media technology.
Teaching and studying at TTU will be conducted in English.
Students will study at the TTU campus for three years and the fourth year at a well-known university in the US, according to the Government's website.
Dung also appointed the Ministry of Education and Training to inspect TTU's necessary facilities before it is allowed to open any faculty and enroll students in various fields of study.
The chairwoman of Tan Tao Group and founder and chairwoman of the TTU Board of Advisors, Dang Thi Hoang Yen, said: "TTU is a Vietnamese university that will provide quality education to excellent students who need an opportunity (for an international-standard education)."
At its full operation, TTU will have nine schools, with schools of Business and Economics, Engineering, and Computer Science and Humanities and Languages to be established in the first year of operation./.
