Ho Chi Minh City Open University

Key Highlights

• Public university directly under Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training
• Institutional origin dates to June 15, 1990
• Offers regular, continuing, distance, and other flexible study formats
• Second-cycle institutional accreditation is listed as valid through March 28, 2028

Student Life & Environment

Student life is spread across several teaching and administrative locations, so the experience is more urban and distributed than that of a single residential campus. The university’s student-services information points learners to academic advising, an online student-information system, scholarship and tuition-relief information, student-loan guidance, extracurricular calendars, and regulations governing student affairs. Clubs, teams, and student groups provide routes into activities outside class. Official university pages document academically focused organizations such as legal-skills, construction-technology, entrepreneurship, and public-speaking clubs. These examples suggest opportunities to combine subject interests with practical skills, but students should confirm which groups remain active in their intake year. The university also maintains a job portal advertising full-time and part-time opportunities. Housing requires particular attention. The student-services material directs students to rental-accommodation guidance, but the current sources reviewed do not establish a general university housing guarantee for new students. A university facility page refers to dormitory accommodation at the Long Bình/Đồng Nai site, historically associated with physical and national-defense education, but it should not be treated as proof of routine housing for every program. Applicants should ask the Student Affairs Office about current eligibility, location, cost, and commuting implications before making plans.

Location & Surroundings

The university’s main contact address is 97 Võ Văn Tần in Ho Chi Minh City, while its administrative offices are listed at 35–37 Hồ Hảo Hớn. Both are central urban locations. Additional sites are listed in other parts of Ho Chi Minh City and in Đồng Nai and Khánh Hòa, with another location in the former Bình Dương area. This distributed footprint means that “Ho Chi Minh City Open University” should not be understood as one compact campus. For students, central-city study offers access to the services, cultural life, employers, and transport networks of Vietnam’s largest metropolitan economy. The tradeoff is that travel time and living arrangements may depend heavily on the assigned teaching location. Some required activities may also take place outside the city center. Before renting accommodation, applicants should obtain the current timetable location for their program and ask whether classes rotate between sites. The university publishes addresses, but the reviewed material does not provide a comprehensive current transport or accessibility guide for every location.

Costs & Career Outcomes

Published 2026–2027 tuition for regular undergraduate standard programs ranges from VND 26.5 million to VND 32 million per academic year, depending on the field. Advanced-program tuition is approximately VND 50 million per year. The university states that any annual tuition increase may be up to 10%, depending on operating conditions and the applicable government framework. These figures apply to the named regular undergraduate categories; they should not be generalized to distance, part-time, graduate, or international arrangements. The university projected a scholarship fund of approximately VND 53 billion for 2026. Its student-services information also identifies merit or targeted scholarships, tuition reductions, and guidance on student-credit programs. Eligibility is scheme-specific, so the projected fund is not an individual award guarantee. No current comprehensive figure for accommodation, food, transport, books, or other living costs was verified, and students should budget those separately according to their assigned study site. Career support includes a university employment portal with full-time and part-time listings. Subject-based clubs and university–employer activities can also provide applied exposure, but the reviewed sources do not support a university-wide placement rate, typical salary, or named-employer outcome. Students comparing career value should request recent outcome data for the exact program and delivery mode.