Many universities "say no" to block C even though they train in social sciences.

(Dan Tri) - Hanoi Open University becomes the next school in the 2025 admission season not to consider the literature - history - geography combination (block C00) for all training majors, including social majors.

According to the latest announced admission information, Hanoi Open University will not consider admission to block C00 in 2025.

Instead, the social majors of this school such as the Law group and the Tourism group only recruit combinations with math subjects, including: math - literature - English, math - English - history, math - English - geography, math - English - economic and legal education, math - physics - English.

In addition, the school considers recruiting a new combination of math - English - information technology (K01) for groups of majors in economics, finance, banking, insurance...

Conversion table of foreign language certificates to English exam scores of Hanoi Open University (Screenshot).

On the same day, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities also announced admission information showing the absence of block C00 in many purely social majors such as Journalism, Public Relations, Psychology, Sociology, Vietnamese Studies, International Studies, Cultural Studies, etc.

Only 9/28 training majors of this school are recruiting block C00 such as Han Nom, Philosophy, Religion, Literature, History...

Candidates taking the 2024 high school graduation exam (Photo: Manh Quan).

Notably, the leading school in training social sciences gives priority points to candidates with SAT certificates - an internationally standardized certificate that includes half of the exam questions being math.

Specifically, the school adds 2 points for SAT 1,500-1,600; 1.5 points for SAT 1,300-1,499; 1 point for SAT 1,100-1,299.

The school also allows converting IELTS certificates into English test scores in the admission combination, with IELTS 7.0 or higher being counted as 10 points.

Conversion table of foreign language certificates to English exam scores of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Screenshot).

Previously, two universities completely eliminated block C00 in the 2025 admissions period: the Academy of Journalism and Communication and the University of Law - Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

The Academy of Journalism and Communication not only stopped considering the combination of literature - history - geography but also stopped considering geography in all training majors.

The school is divided into 4 groups of majors, each group considering a certain number of combinations.

Specifically, Group 1 is the Journalism - Publishing industry, recruiting 4 combinations: Literature - English - Math; Literature - English - Economic and Legal Education; Literature - English - Information Technology; Literature - English - History. In which, Literature is calculated with a coefficient of 2.

Group 2 is Philosophy - Political Science, with 4 combinations: literature - math - English; literature - math - IT; literature - math - history; literature - math - economic and legal education.

Group 3 is History, with 4 combinations: literature - history - English; literature - history - math; literature - history - information technology; literature - history - economic and legal education. In which, history has a coefficient of 2.

Group 4 is the fields of communication - advertising - public relations - international relations, recruiting from 4 combinations: literature - English - math; literature - English - information technology; literature - English - economic and legal education; literature - English - history. In which English has a coefficient of 2.

Similarly, the method of considering high school graduation exam scores of the University of Law - Vietnam National University, Hanoi does not consider block C00 or A00.

This school considers 6 combinations: C03 (math, literature, history), A07 (math, history, geography), A01 (math, physics, English), D01 (math, literature, English), D14 (literature, history, English) and D15 (literature, geography, English).

On the other hand, Hanoi Medical University entered the second year of recruiting block C00 for Psychology, a new major opened by the school from 2024.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/hang-loat-truong-dai-hoc-noi-khong-voi-khoi-c-du-dao-tao-nganh-xa-hoi-20250604204231112.htm