Medical and health sector benchmark scores in the last 3 years: How high or low are they?

According to Thanh Nien Newspaper, by 2025, there will be about 60 universities nationwide training in the health sector. Of these, the 7 most popular majors at medical schools are medicine, dentistry, traditional medicine, pharmacy, medical laboratory technology, medical imaging technology and nursing.

Many public and non-public multi-disciplinary schools only train in two popular majors: pharmacy and nursing.

This article lists the benchmark scores of all 7 majors above in 3 years 2023, 2024 and 2025.

No school in the health sector has a benchmark score lower than the prescribed input quality assurance threshold.

The data shows that the medical and dental majors always have high standard scores, much higher than other majors. Especially in long-standing and prestigious training schools such as Hanoi Medical University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Hanoi National University), University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Hue University), Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Military Medical Academy...

Điểm chuẩn y khoa và khối ngành sức khỏe 3 năm gần nhất: Cao, thấp ra sao? - Ảnh 1. — To ensure the quality of training in the health sector, for many years now, the Ministry of Education and Training has set a threshold to ensure input quality. Universities in this sector are not allowed to set benchmark scores lower than the prescribed floor scores. Long-standing and prestigious schools often have very high benchmark scores, from 1 to nearly 8 points higher than the threshold to ensure input quality.

It can be seen that the benchmark scores for most health majors at public universities are often higher than the input quality assurance threshold set by the Ministry of Education and Training, from 1 to nearly 8 points.

In particular, Hanoi Medical University is at the top of the medical industry's benchmark scores every year, with some years having scores above 28 points such as 2024 and 2025. This year, the school's benchmark score is 7.63 points higher than the Ministry's floor score.

Next is Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, the medical major has been above 27 points for the past 3 years. This year, the admission score for this major is 6.84 points higher than the Ministry's floor score.

The benchmark score for pharmacy majors is up to 27-28 points at Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry and Ton Duc Thang University.

Meanwhile, in the non-public sector, the medical or dental majors of some schools in some years have had benchmark scores higher than the threshold of the Ministry of Education and Training such as Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Phan Chau Trinh University, Buon Ma Thuot University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Van Lang University, Phenikaa University, Hanoi University of Business and Technology...

Many majors of many remaining universities have benchmark scores equal to the scores prescribed by the Ministry of Education and Training. That means that no medical major has a benchmark score lower than the threshold to ensure input quality, especially majors that train doctors.

Accordingly, the threshold to ensure input quality for the health sector is regulated by the Ministry of Education and Training each year, based on the quality of candidates' exam scores and the total quota for this sector.

Specifically, in 2023: medicine, dentistry: 22.5; traditional medicine, pharmacy: 21; other industries: 19.

2024: medicine, dentistry: 22.5; traditional medicine, pharmacy: 21; other fields: 19.

2025: medicine, dentistry: 20.5; traditional medicine, pharmacy: 19; other industries: 17.