The training scale difference is not much, but the number of universities in the Red River Delta is almost twice as much as in the Southeast region.
Perspective of the University of Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Hanoi is the city with the largest number of higher education institutions in the country - Photo: Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training show that there are currently huge differences between regions in terms of student population, number of universities, student/population ratio... between regions.
Large regional differences
The Ministry of Education and Training assessed that the student population has increased in recent years but is unevenly distributed among regions across the country.
The difference in student population size between regions is quite large, population size does not completely correlate with student population size.
Population ratio, number of schools and student size by economic region - Source: Ministry of Education and Training
According to this chart, the Red River Delta accounts for 23.49% of the country's population, the university rate is 44.2% and the student population accounts for 39.86% of the total number of students.
In contrast, the Mekong Delta has a population size of 17.7% but only 6.9% of universities and only 8.24% of the total number of students nationwide.
The student/population ratio has significant differences between regions. The Southeast, the region with the highest socio-economic growth rate in recent years, has the highest student/population ratio, 373 students/10,000 people.
Next is the Red River Delta, 352 students/10,000 people, and the lowest is the Central Highlands, 51 students/10,000 people, and the Northern Midlands and Mountains is 53 students/10,000 people.
According to this statistic, the number of universities in the Red River Delta (44.2%) is double that of the Southeast (22.9%). However, the ratio of students/10,000 people in the Southeast is higher than the Red River Delta.
Closing the college gap
According to the planning of the network of higher education and pedagogical institutions for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050, the gap in the number of universities will be narrower than at present.
The goal of this plan is to develop a synchronous and modern network of higher education and pedagogical institutions with reasonable scale, structure and distribution; to establish an open, fair, equal, high-quality and effective higher education system.
Specifically, by 2030, the scale will be over 3 million learners, reaching 260 undergraduates and 23 postgraduates per 10,000 people. The rate of university education among people aged 18-22 will reach 33%.
The scale of university training by 2030 in each region is as follows:
The Red River Delta has the largest training scale with 1.3 million students, of which Hanoi has 1.1 million.
The Southeast is the region with the second largest training scale in the country with 1.1 million students, of which Ho Chi Minh City alone has 1 million. The Central Highlands has the lowest university training scale in the country.
Along with the scale of training is the distribution of the number of universities in the regions. By 2030, the country is expected to have 248 universities, including 176 public universities and 72 private universities.
The Red River Delta and the Southeast are the two regions with the largest number of universities in the country. The orientation of the distribution of the number of higher education institutions (according to headquarters) in the regions is as follows:
With this distribution, the Red River Delta accounts for 41.4%, down from the current 44.2%. Meanwhile, the number of universities in the Southeast accounts for 24.2%, up from the current 22.9%. Thus, in terms of the number of universities, the gap between the two regions has narrowed.
However, in general, the training scale of the two regions is not too different, but the number of universities is still very far apart.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/so-luong-dai-hoc-o-dong-bang-song-hong-gan-gap-doi-dong-nam-bo-20250306123815874.htm
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