Expected to raise entrance standards for Medicine, Pharmacy and Pedagogy from 2025

In the draft revised regulations for university and college admissions in early childhood education, the Ministry of Education and Training plans to raise the minimum quality standards for admission to teacher training and medical/pharmaceutical programs that grant professional practice certificates.

Specifically, applicants for these majors must have academic results of "good" or higher in all three years of high school, or a graduation exam score of 8 or higher.

The admission standards for Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Teacher Training programs are expected to be raised starting in 2025. (Illustrative image)

Some majors have lower minimum admission requirements, such as: Physical Education , Music Education, Fine Arts Education, Early Childhood Education (college level), and Nursing, Preventive Medicine, Midwifery, Dental Prosthetics Technology, Medical Laboratory Technology, Medical Imaging Technology, and Rehabilitation Technology. Candidates need to have a GPA of "good" or higher in all three years of high school, or a graduation exam score of 6.5 or higher.

These requirements are all stricter than they are now – candidates only need to have achieved a good or excellent academic rating in 12th grade.

Furthermore, the Ministry currently divides candidates applying to teacher training and health-related programs into two groups. Academic transcript requirements only apply to the group not using high school graduation exam scores for admission. For the group using high school graduation exam scores for admission, the Ministry will announce the minimum admission score annually.

The draft released today no longer divides the minimum admission score based on the selection method.

The Ministry of Education and Training also plans to add a requirement for admission based on academic transcripts. Accordingly, admission based on academic transcripts must be based on a combination of at least three subjects, including either Mathematics or Literature, with a weighting of at least one-third of the total score. A major or training program may use several subject combinations simultaneously. In that case, the number of common subjects from all combinations must have a weighting of at least 50% of the total score.

Universities can use an unlimited number of subject combinations for admissions, instead of being limited to just four as currently, but they will be restricted by the weighting of the scores for each subject.

The Ministry also requires schools to use the students' academic results for the entire 12th grade year, instead of using scores from 3-5 semesters as is currently the case. If this becomes a reality, universities will no longer be able to select students based on academic transcripts and announce cutoff scores as early as March as they do now.

Khanh Huyen

Source: https://vtcnews.vn/du-kien-nang-chuan-xet-tuyen-nganh-y-duoc-va-su-pham-tu-2025-ar909184.html