In 2024, the School of Management and Business had 134 graduates, including 1 outstanding student, 30 good students, and the rest with average grades.

Explaining why the percentage of students graduating with excellent and good grades from the school is lower compared to many other schools, Associate Professor Hoang Dinh Phi, Rector of the School of Management and Business, said that this is because the school's training programs are interdisciplinary and have strict criteria at both the entrance and graduation levels.

"Each course module has learning outcomes linked to the curriculum standards. After completing the course, students must be equipped with both hard skills and soft skills," Mr. Phi said.

These soft skills include: personal time management skills, interpersonal communication skills, teamwork skills, presentation skills, information searching skills, relationship building skills, etc.

Hard skills are professional skills. For example, in the Business Administration and Technology program, there are five mandatory professional skills that students must acquire, including: using academic English in their field; using legal skills to assist business leaders in negotiating and drafting economic contracts in both Vietnamese and English; basic and applied programming skills; business management skills; and the ability to participate in and organize teams to implement changes, innovations, and creative initiatives within the business.

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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hoang Dinh Phi, Rector of the School of Management and Business

Furthermore, because the specialized subjects are taught entirely in English, from the second year onwards, students are required to have an IELTS certificate of 5.5 or higher, or a B2 level English certificate, to be eligible to continue their studies.

"If students don't meet this standard, they are forced to defer their studies until they meet the language requirements. However, in reality, most students have already achieved an IELTS score above 5.0 before entering the university," Mr. Phi said.

When it comes to writing their graduation thesis, students must complete and defend their thesis entirely in English.

Mr. Phi affirmed that the student evaluation system at the school, based on grades, is "very fair and transparent; there is no giving or receiving of grades."

"No one can influence grades except for the students' own actual abilities. Therefore, the majority of the school's students graduate with a good grade; very few achieve excellent or outstanding grades."

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Students from the School of Management and Business receive their diplomas.

However, the principal of the School of Management and Business said that even though the students graduated with good grades, with the professional skills they had acquired at school, they did not fear unemployment.

"Throughout the four years of study at the school, we also place great emphasis on developing the emotional intelligence of each student. Emotional intelligence will help students communicate effectively, control their own emotions, assess the quality of partners and competitors, and act intelligently in situations requiring tact..."

"Thanks to these factors, most students don't need job placement assistance from the university after graduation, because they already have many options," Associate Professor Hoang Dinh Phi shared.

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