In particular, it requires universities and colleges to develop enrollment plans and promptly announce information so that students have a study plan and review for the 2026 high school graduation exam.
According to the plan, training institutions must complete the announcement of admission information on the training institution's website by February 15, 2026.
Establish a Steering Committee for admission support on May 25, 2026.
Testing and training of general admission support system software on May 15, 2026.
From June 6, review the results of high school academic scores on the system.
Candidates practice registration and adjustment of admission wishes on the system from June 17 to June 21. After that, the candidate provided and received points, reviewed, corrected errors, and confirmed priority regime information.
On June 20, candidates provide and receive points to review foreign language certificates and SATs; update preliminary selection results, results of independent, supplementary exams, competency assessment, thinking assessment (if any).
From the date the candidate registered for the exam until August 30, the educational institution and the Department of Education and Training support candidates to register for the first round of admission online.
The general plan of the Ministry of Education and Training mentioned that candidates must complete the submission of direct admission documents and prioritize admission to educational institutions on June 20. Direct admission and notification of results to candidates, updating the list of successful candidates to the system before June 30.
In addition, the important timelines that candidates need to pay attention to are as follows:
From January 1 to May 20, 2026, the Department of Education and Training will provide additional accounts to candidates (graduated from high school, intermediate level) who do not have an account to register for admission in the system.
From July 2 to 5:00 p.m. on July 14, candidates can register and adjust their admission wishes, with no limit on the number of times within the prescribed time.
On July 10, 2026, the Ministry of Education and Training announced the threshold for ensuring input quality in teacher training, health care, and law.
At 5:00 p.m. on July 10, 2026, the educational institution adjusted and announced the admission score and the equivalent conversion admission score on the system and electronic information page.
Candidates pay the online admission fee from July 15 to July 21, 2026.
Before 5:00 p.m. on August 13, candidates will be notified of their first round of admission. Confirm the first round of online admission on the system before 5:00 p.m. on August 21, 2026.
Education institutions announce additional admissions from August 22, 2026.
Direct admission methods and priority admission methods will continue to be applied in 2026, however, for the current high school transcript admission, there is still no decision on whether to continue or remove.
According to the Ministry of Education and Training, in 2026, the Department of Quality Management (Ministry of Education and Training) will implement the content of unifying the criteria for assessing the capacity of universities, before the time when training institutions organize the exam.
The ability assessment test, thinking assessment test, entrance exam for principles, criteria, content, expertise, ensuring input quality standards among university admission methods.
The Ministry of Education and Training will also supervise the organization of competency assessment exams of higher education institutions during the time the training institutions organize the exam.
