Hanoi Department of Education and Training informs about hot issues regarding 2025 enrollment
At the Symposium in April 4, 2025, Director of Hanoi Department of Education and Training Tran The Cuong said that the 10th grade enrollment period in 2025 will have about 127,000 students graduating from junior high school. The Department of Education and Training strives to increase the rate of 10th grade to 64%, equivalent to 5,000 - 5,500 targets. Students will take the three subjects of Literature, Math (120 minutes/subject), and foreign languages (60 minutes); The exam was held on 7-8.6, specialized exams on 9.6.
For the 2025 high school graduation exam, Hanoi plans to have 126,000 candidates registering to take the exam, an increase of 15,000 candidates compared to 2024. The exam will take place on June 26-27. The whole city has about 250 exam locations, 5,500 exam rooms and mobilized more than 16,000 cadres, teachers and staff to participate in organizing the exam. The education sector plans to apply the model of admission according to administrative boundaries through VNeID, piloted from 2025.
Regarding the implementation of Circular 29 of the Ministry of Education and Training related to extra teaching and learning, Hanoi has synchronously implemented many solutions to ensure voluntariness and transparency. Additional classes ensure facilities, safety, and agreed tuition fees based on the principle of full revenue and expenditure. See more...
The Ministry of Education and Training requires schools to review strange admission combinations
On 9.4.2025, the Ministry of Education and Training (Education and Training) sent a dispatch to higher education institutions requesting the review of methods and combination of admission to preschool education in 2025 to ensure reasonable, suitable to the new general education program. This is the first year of enrollment under the 2018 educational program, students are selected for the subject, so they may not study some subjects, leading to many admission complexes lacking core subjects of the training industry.
The Ministry of Education and Training emphasizes that training institutions must choose subject combinations based on basic knowledge requirements, especially for pedagogical majors that need a specific combination or entrance threshold suitable for the major. Schools are responsible for explaining the scientific and practical basis of the group and the admission methods used.

Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son said that in the context of students studying in groups, if they are admitted to the medical school with a degree in Math - Chemistry - English without requiring them to study Biology, it is unreasonable. Therefore, schools can add conditions such as candidates must study Biology and achieve the minimum score in their academic records, even though this subject is not included in the main admission combination. See more...
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The highest tuition fee for medical schools and pharmacies is nearly 100 million VND/year
Universities training in Health have different tuition fees, the highest of which is up to nearly 100 million VND/school year.
Currently, Hanoi Medical University applies tuition fees ranging from 15 to 55.2 million VND/school year. The majors of Medicine, Traditional Medicine, Dentistry, and Medicine (Thanh Hoa branch) have the highest tuition fees (55.2 million VND/school year). Psychology is a new major to open in 2024 and has the lowest tuition fee of 15 million VND/school year.
In the 2024 - 2025 school year, Hanoi University of Pharmacy has tuition fees ranging from 15.2 - 150 million VND/school year. Specifically, Pharmacy is 24.5 million; Pharmaceutical Chemistry is 21.2 million; Biotechnology is 15.2 million/school year.
For the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University, the tuition fee announced by the school ranges from 27.6 - 55 million VND/school year. See more...