Hanoi University of Science and Technology

Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Former names
 Polytechnic University (Vietnamese: Đại học Chuyên nghiệp Bách khoa, French: Université polytechnique; 1956 - 1975)
Hanoi University of Technology (HUT) (-2010)
Established October 15, 1956
Type Technical university (Public)
President Nguyễn Trọng Giảng
Academic staff
 1,292 (2007)
Administrative staff
 2,067 (2006)
Students 40,363 (2006)
Location Hai Ba Trung dist, Hanoi, Vietnam
Campus 23 ha Urban
Colors Red, green, white, yellow
Website www.hust.edu.vn

Coordinates: 21°00′23″N 105°50′35″E / 21.00639°N 105.84306°E

This article is about Hanoi University of Science and Technology. For a similarly named institution, see University of Science and Technology of Hanoi.

Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Abbreviated as HUST; Vietnamese: Đại học Bách khoa Hà Nội, French: Institut Polytechnique de Hanoï, "Polytechnic University of Hanoi", "Hanoi University of Technology (HUT)"), founded 1956, is the first and largest technical university in Vietnam.[1][2][3][4][5]

History

After the communists took control of Hanoi in 1954 after the victory at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the Soviet Union decided to help North Vietnam to build up a new technical university as a frame for university education in Vietnam. The construction took about two years from the ground of an old campus of Indochina University during the French colonial period. The building was the largest one at that time in Hanoi.

The university is the fifth oldest universities in Vietnam, after Indochina Medical College (1902), University of Indochina(1904), École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de L'Indochine (1925) and Hanoi University of Education (1951). It is the parent of many spin-off technical universities in Vietnam, including Hanoi University of Civil Engineering, Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, Vietnam University of Water Resource, etc. After the unification of Vietnam, many of its professors went to Ho Chi Minh City to rebuild Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology.

Hanoi University of Science and Technology is a multidisciplinary technical university. It always ranks first in technology training universities in Vietnam. Thousands of engineers have graduated from HUST and are now serving in key industrial and scientific areas in Vietnam. Many of them hold important positions in the government.

Facts and Figures

In 2007, the HUST staff consisted of 1950 people. Amongst them, there were 1192 in teaching staff, 394 in teaching-assistant and scientific research staff, 200 professors and associate-professors, 400 Ph.D. and D.S.c. Currently, the number of students is about 40,000 making it the largest technical university in Vietnam[6] . Despite of the large pool of students, the passmark (in the national university entrant exam) of the university is among the highest in Vietnam. HUST is well known in Vietnam for its selective students. For instance, in 2005 national university entrant exam, more than half of perfect-score students came to HUST.

To further promote scientific research and training activities besides technology transfer to develop the university as a research focused university, since May 2010 the university’s name in English had been changed to Hanoi University of Science and Technology (abbreviated HUST). However, the university’s names in Vietnamese and French remain the same as "Đại học Bách khoa Hà Nội" and "Institut Polytechnique de Hanoi" respectively.[7]

Campus

University's main library, named after Professor-Scientist Tạ Quang Bửu.

HUST has one of the largest and most treed campus on Vietnam, just in the south center of Hanoi, looks out onto the Park of Reunification. HUST's campus area is about 20 tens thousand m² with 200 amphitheatres, teaching rooms, halls and conference chambers. It also owns about 200 laboratories among which 8 national key laboratories and 20 practical workshops. HUST has a large of complex for physical education and sport activities including a standard stadium, an Olympic size swimming pool, tennis courts, and international standard sporting event hall (where the South East Asia Student Sports Festival is organized in 2006).

Academics

Schools and Departments

Faculties

Institutes and Research Centers

Partner universities

Hanoi University of Technology has set up cooperation in research and training with 200 universities, research institutes and companies from 32 countries in the world. The following are parts of this network:

Notable alumni, faculty, and staff

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

Gallery

References

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