High school tuition fees are proposed to remain stable in the 2025-2026 school year - Photo: DANH KHANG
The Ministry of Education and Training has just submitted a draft Decree on the mechanism for collecting and managing tuition fees for educational institutions in the national education system and policies on tuition fee exemption, reduction, and support, support for study costs, and service prices in the field of education and training.
According to the draft, the principle of determining tuition fees for public educational institutions is to cover costs, with reasonable accumulation according to the Law on Prices and a roadmap to calculate sufficient costs appropriate to each level of education, socio -economic conditions of each residential area, consumer price index growth rate, and annual economic growth rate.
Privateeducational institutions are allowed to proactively set tuition fees and prices for other services in the education and training sector (except for services priced by the State) to ensure cost recovery, with reasonable accumulation according to the provisions of the Law on Prices, and develop a roadmap to increase tuition fees in the following years by no more than 15% for universities and no more than 10% for preschools and general education.
These educational and training institutions must conduct themselves publicly according to regulations and be accountable to learners and society about their collection levels.
Preschool and primary school tuition
According to the above draft, for preschool and general education, the tuition fee framework (floor - ceiling) for the 2025-2026 school year will be kept stable at the same level as the 2022-2023 tuition fee according to Decree 81/2021, linked to the level of financial autonomy of educational institutions.
For educational institutions that do not have regular expenditures, the collection is as follows:
Preschool and primary school: 300,000 - 540,000 VND/student/month for urban areas; 100,000 - 220,000 for rural areas; 50,000 - 110,000 for ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
Secondary school level: collection from 300,000 - 650,000 VND/student/month in urban areas; from 100,000 - 270,000 in rural areas; from 50,000 - 170,000 in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
High school level: from 300,000 - 650,000 VND/student/month in urban areas; from 200,000 - 330,000 in rural areas; from 100,000 - 220,000 in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
The maximum tuition fee ceiling for public preschool and general education institutions that are self-sufficient in regular expenses is twice the tuition fee ceiling for institutions that are not self-sufficient in regular expenses.
The maximum tuition fee ceiling for public preschool and general education institutions that cover their own regular expenses and investment expenses is 2.5 times the tuition fee ceiling for institutions that do not cover their own regular expenses.
Regarding the tuition fee roadmap, the above draft states that from 2026-2027 to the 2035-2036 school year, the tuition fee ceiling will be adjusted at a rate appropriate to the local socio-economic conditions, the consumer price index growth rate, the annual economic growth rate and the people's ability to pay, but not exceeding 7.5% to reach the milestone of calculating full training costs in the 2035-2036 school year.
From the 2036-2037 school year onwards, the tuition fee ceiling will be adjusted based on people's ability to pay and the socio-economic conditions of each locality, but must not exceed the consumer price index growth rate at the time of determining the tuition fee compared to the same period last year as announced by the competent State agency.
University tuition fees
In the draft, the regulation on tuition fee ceilings for public universities that do not cover their regular expenses for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 school years is also regulated by training sector.
The tuition fee ceiling for the next two academic years for the medical and pharmaceutical fields is over 3.1 million VND/student/month and 3.5 million VND/student/month, while for other health fields it is over 2.3 million VND and over 2.6 million VND. Other fields range from over 1.5 million to over 2.0 million VND.
Public educational institutions that are self-sufficient in recurrent expenditures determine the maximum tuition fee to be twice the tuition fee ceiling of institutions that are not self-sufficient in recurrent expenditures. Public educational institutions that are self-sufficient in recurrent expenditures and investment expenditures determine the maximum tuition fee to be 2.5 times the tuition fee ceiling of institutions that are not self-sufficient in recurrent expenditures.
The above draft also stipulates the tuition fee framework for college and intermediate levels at public vocational education institutions, regulations on educational services and support, and regulations on subjects exempted, reduced, and supported from tuition fees and study costs.
Previously, the regulations on tuition fees were issued by Decree 81 of the Government, applicable from the 2021-2022 school year. However, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government issued Resolution 165 and Decree 97/2023 to amend a number of articles of Decree 81. Accordingly, for the 2023-2024 school year, the regulations on preschool and general education tuition fees will remain stable as in the 2021-2022 school year. For vocational education and public higher education tuition fees, the tuition fee schedule will be delayed by 1 year compared to the schedule set out in Decree 81 from the 2023-2024 school year. The tuition fee schedule according to the decree has not yet been applied.
Based on the above legal documents and the actual situation, the Ministry of Education and Training proposes to develop a new decree on the mechanism for collecting and managing tuition fees for educational institutions in the national education system and policies on tuition fee exemption, reduction, support, support for study costs, and service prices in the field of education and training to replace Decree 81.
The regulation of tuition fee frameworks at all levels is the basis for implementing financial compensation after the exemption of tuition fees for preschool and general education will be implemented in the near future.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/du-kien-muc-tran-hoc-phi-mam-non-pho-thong-va-dai-hoc-cac-nam-toi-20250714103503809.htm
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