The Ministry of Health has just proposed that the Government consider supporting 100% of tuition fees and living expenses for medical students, similar to the case of education students.
According to the Ministry of Health, the medical sector is lacking in quantity and quality, and has an imbalance in medical human resources in terms of both distribution and structure of professional staff.
In Ho Chi Minh City, the medical and health sector has both public and private schools. Tuition fees at these schools in the 2024-2025 school year range from about 40-250 million VND/year.
In the public sector, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy has the highest tuition fees. Of which, the tuition fee for Dentistry is about 84.7 million VND/year, for Medicine is about 82.2 million VND/year; for Pharmacy is about 60.5 million VND/year; for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Traditional Medicine, Preventive Medicine is about 50 million VND/year; for the remaining majors, it is about 46 million VND/year.
University of Health Sciences - Ho Chi Minh City National University, tuition fees range from 47.2-62.2 million VND/year.
In which, tuition fees for majors: General Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Traditional Medicine are about 62.2 million/year; Nursing is about 47.2 million/year.
Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine has tuition fees ranging from about 41.8 - 55.2 million VND/academic year. The tuition fees for Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry are about 55.2 million VND/academic year.
Nursing, Medical Laboratory Technology, Medical Imaging Technology, Rehabilitation Technology, Ophthalmology Refractive Surgery, Public Health Nutrition about 41.8 million VND/year.
In the non-public school sector, Hong Bang International University has the highest tuition fees. The Vietnamese program for Medicine and Dentistry costs about 210 million VND/year, and the English program costs about 250 million VND/year.
Traditional Medicine major is about 90 million VND/year; Pharmacy major with Vietnamese program is about 60 million VND/year, English program is about 100 million VND/year.
Van Lang University has tuition fees from about 80-100 million VND/year for 2 majors: Medicine and Dentistry.
At Nguyen Tat Thanh University, tuition fees for Medicine are about 152 million VND/year; Pharmacy is about 52 million VND/year; Preventive Medicine and Rehabilitation Technology is about 51 million VND/year; Nursing and Medical Laboratory Technology is about 45 million VND/year; Hospital Management is about 43 million VND/year.
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Pharmacy and Medical Laboratory Technology, tuition fee is about 20-21 million VND/semester.