The above content is in Circular 06/2025 on university and college admission regulations recently issued by the Ministry of Education and Training. The adjustments in the new circular aim to increase transparency, fairness and improve the quality of admission.
Early admission is cancelled.
The Ministry of Education and Training believes that applying early admission makes the admission period longer, candidates have to ask for confirmation of high school results to send to many training institutions, leading to a waste of social resources. In particular, many training institutions call for early admission in large numbers but the number of candidates enrolling is very small, showing that early admission is not effective.
In addition, when training institutions conduct early admissions using the learning results from 1 to 5 semesters instead of using the results of the entire 12th grade year (semester 2), it affects the learning process and high school graduation exam of students, thereby affecting their learning capacity at university level. Therefore, to ensure that students are fully equipped with the necessary basic knowledge to study university programs, from this year, the regulations stipulate that early admissions will no longer be considered.
The Ministry of Education and Training will stop early admission to universities from 2025. (Illustration photo)
The new regulations also stipulate that when using high school academic results for admission, candidates must use their entire 12th grade academic results. In addition, to ensure that the contribution of the entire 12th grade academic results is not too low when calculating the admission score, the regulations stipulate that the weight of the 12th grade academic results in calculating the admission score must not be less than 25%.
Eliminate the allocation of admission quotas
The new regulations stipulate that universities using multiple admission methods must convert the equivalent entrance threshold and admission scores of the admission methods, admission methods, and admission combinations.
Thus, schools do not have to allocate quotas for admission methods to avoid risks in admission such as: large difference in scores between methods, some methods have very high admission scores, admission scores based on academic records are lower than admission scores based on high school graduation exam results, etc.
In addition, to ensure that candidates have full information during the application process, the regulations stipulating the equivalent conversion rules must be publicly announced at the latest at the same time as the time of announcing the input quality assurance threshold.
Candidates do not need to choose a method code, combination code... they just need to clearly identify the program, major, training group and training institution they want to study to decide to register. The general enrollment support system of the Ministry of Education and Training will use the method with the highest result of the candidate for admission consideration.
Unlimited number of admission combinations
2025 is the first year that students studying under the new general education program will take the high school graduation exam. The Ministry of Education and Training has issued new high school graduation exam regulations, which increase the number of subjects that students can choose. Therefore, to ensure the opportunity for students from different regions to be admitted, the regulations remove the requirement for training programs, each major and each program has a maximum of 4 admission combinations; there is no limit on the number of admission combinations.
However, in order to ensure the quality and knowledge foundation necessary for university study, the regulations stipulate that the subject combination used for admission includes at least 3 suitable subjects, including Mathematics or Literature with a weighted score of not less than 25%. From 2026, the common subjects of the combination must contribute at least 50% of the weighted score.
Prevent abuse of foreign language certificates
The Ministry of Education and Training also pointed out the fact that in the past few years, some training institutions have abused the use of foreign language certificates in the admission process, even using foreign language certificates as a criterion to determine the candidates' chances of being admitted. Therefore, the new regulations stipulate that schools can convert foreign language certificates into foreign language subject scores to include in the admission subject group, but the foreign language subject scores converted from foreign language certificates have a weighted score that cannot exceed 50%.
With this regulation, candidates can still make the most of their strengths to increase their chances of being admitted to university while still ensuring fairness.
In addition, the regulation of bonus points (bonus points, bonus points, incentive points) for different achievements and certificates of large candidates can also lead to unfairness. Therefore, the regulation sets a limit of total bonus points not exceeding 10% of the maximum score of the scoring scale (for example, with a 30-point scale, the maximum is 3 points) to create a fairer opportunity in the selection process.
However, training institutions still have bonus points based on the characteristics of the training institution, the input requirements and the maximum exploitation of the candidates' own strengths. Each candidate has the opportunity to achieve the maximum score on the scoring scale, but no candidate has a score (all types of bonus points, priority points) exceeding this maximum score.
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