Errors in university admissions in 2025: What does the Ministry of Education and Training say?

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) believes that with a large amount of data, errors in university admissions are inevitable. However, with the MOET and universities increasing the number of staff on hotlines, most cases have been resolved promptly.

50 million admission applications on the system

On the evening of August 26, the Ministry of Education and Training announced that in 2025, the total number of candidates registered for the exam will reach 852,000 with 7.6 million wishes for more than 4,000 majors and training programs of more than 400 universities and colleges nationwide. The admission regulations allow candidates to register for multiple wishes and do not need to choose a method or combination of admissions, the admission software system will automatically select the method or combination of admissions that is most beneficial for the candidates.

Therefore, the total number of actual admission wishes that must be considered on the system is up to over 50 million (each industry wish considered according to each method and admission combination is considered as one wish on the system), an increase of about 2 times compared to 2024.

In 2025, the number of admission requests on the system will double compared to 2024.

The consistent policy of the Ministry of Education and Training and schools is to transfer difficult and complicated tasks to themselves and apply technology to solve them, bringing maximum convenience and fairness to candidates. From the registration process, paying fees to confirming admission, candidates do it entirely online. To serve the higher requirements of 2025, the general enrollment support software system (including the virtual selection and filtering system) has been upgraded. Although there was an initial overload, it was promptly resolved and completed processing, providing data to schools for timely announcement on August 22.

The Ministry of Education and Training also increased the time and number of virtual filtering times for schools to carefully review data and minimize errors. At the same time, after announcing the benchmark scores, schools will continue to need 2 to 3 days to review, correct errors and complete the list of successful candidates, notify candidates, and update the Ministry's system to serve candidates to confirm their admission.

Thus, from August 22 to August 24, candidates who are admitted to a school will be notified of their admission and can look up their admission on the information portal provided by the school. For the group of schools in the North that conduct joint admissions, the announcement of the admission list will be undertaken by Hanoi University of Science and Technology as the host unit under the authorization of the schools in the group. Candidates who do not receive admission notices will either be due to the school not having completed the data update, not having announced the admission list, or having errors.

Most of the errors have been resolved in accordance with regulations.

From 8:00 a.m. on August 25, after most schools had uploaded their admission list data, the Ministry of Education and Training reopened the general admission support system for candidates to confirm their admission. The system operated completely stably, and by 12:00 p.m. on August 26, more than 560,000 candidates had successfully confirmed their admission (exceeding the total number of candidates admitted in the first round of 2024). With such a large amount of data, along with the diverse admission methods and conditions of universities and colleges, errors are inevitable, even at a very small rate.

The Ministry of Education and Training said it will listen and adjust admission regulations more appropriately in the coming years.

As in previous years, these errors were mainly due to errors in the admission input data (admission methods, conditions, admission criteria, proof of candidates' priority, foreign language certificates, etc.), some errors were due to manual operations by some schools during the admission process. However, due to careful preparation and experience from previous years, the number of actual errors has decreased significantly compared to 2024. The Ministry of Education and Training and universities and colleges have assigned staff to work on hotlines to receive feedback and questions from candidates and parents through many channels (via phone numbers and emails on the general admission support system) and coordinate to handle and resolve immediately for the legitimate interests of candidates.

Since the evening of August 23, the admissions department of the Ministry of Education and Training has received and forwarded about 20 to 30 complaints from candidates through all channels to schools for processing every day. According to the admissions regulations, the handling of errors is the responsibility of the schools. If necessary, the Ministry of Education and Training will support, guide and direct other universities to coordinate in handling the issue. After listening to the feedback on major errors of a number of higher education institutions, the Ministry of Education and Training has directed and provided timely guidance. Up to now, most of the errors have been resolved in accordance with regulations.

In cases where the press agency receives information or reports about errors in the admission process that may affect the rights of candidates, it is requested to promptly provide them to the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Training for consideration, handling, and ensuring the rights of candidates.

The Ministry of Education and Training will also continue to listen to, study and absorb feedback to have directions to adjust admission regulations, admission plans and direct universities and colleges to perform better in the coming years.

Source: https://cand.com.vn/giao-duc/sai-sot-trong-xet-tuyen-dai-hoc-nam-2025-bo-giao-duc-va-dao-tao-noi-gi--i779421/