Thanh Nguyen

Ho Chi Minh University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH)

The Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities (HCMUSSH) boasts a 60-year history of establishment and growth. Currently, the HCMUSSH has more than 890 faculty members and non-teaching staff. The percentage of the academic staff holding professorial titles or postgraduate degrees is 98.4 %. There are more than 22,000 students enrolled in 28 undergraduate programs, 38 postgraduate programs and over 10 joint programs in collaboration with international partners. The programs offer students access to a very diverse selection of academic options from which to choose, and enhance students' capabilities to embrace the challenge of the country's modernization and industrialization, translating what they learn into professional achievements. The University is one of the two biggest institutions in the field of social sciences and humanities in Vietnam. The school is always the pioneering institution in terms of offering new academic programs to meet societal demands such as Vietnamese studies, Oriental Studies, Anthropology, International Relations, Urban Studies, Spanish Linguistics and Literature, Italian Linguistics and Literature, and so on. In addition, the University is the leading institution nationwide in having over 200 registered international students across the world, e.g. Japan, Korea, Laos, Cambodia, the United States, Singapore, Austria, Turkey, Thailand, Australia, in degree programs and over 5,000 students enrolled in short-term courses. The university has about 22,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in 28 undergraduate programs, 38 postgraduate programs and over 10 joint programs in collaboration with international partners.