Candidates registering for their first choice in STEM increased by nearly 42,000 compared to last year.

GD&TĐ - In 2025, the number of candidates registering for their first choice in STEM majors will reach more than 222,000, an increase of nearly 42,000 compared to the previous year.

At the meeting of the National Steering Committee on Semiconductor Industry Development, chaired by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Steering Committee, Permanent Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Ngoc Thuong said that immediately after the Prime Minister's conclusion at the first meeting, the Ministry promptly issued an implementation plan with many specific tasks and synchronous direction throughout the industry.

Accordingly, the Ministry has guided higher education institutions to develop projects to establish basic semiconductor laboratories to serve human resource training.

To date, nine higher education institutions have completed their projects and submitted them to the Ministry. These proposals have been compiled and submitted to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (now the Ministry of Finance ), where an Appraisal Council has been established for detailed assessment.

The Ministry of Education and Training has instructed schools to develop a project to train highly qualified human resources for the semiconductor industry. The implementation content closely follows Decision 1017/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister, with three specific, transparent, and synchronous instructions sent to training institutions.

On May 13, 2025, the Ministry of Education and Training officially issued the Semiconductor Microchip Training Program Standard. This is an important step towards unifying and standardizing the content and quality of training across the industry.

Currently, the Ministry is continuing to direct and guide universities to review training programs and projects according to semiconductor training program standards to participate in implementation according to Decision 1017/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister.

According to Deputy Minister Pham Ngoc Thuong, STEM and semiconductor enrollment has also seen positive changes. The Ministry of Education and Training has directed training institutions to open semiconductor training majors, update and pilot semiconductor programs, and review university enrollment registration quotas.

In 2025, the number of candidates registering for their first choice in STEM majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) reached 222,454 candidates, an increase of 41,881 candidates registering for this major code compared to the previous year.

The Computer Science and Information Technology majors have 54,359 candidates registering for their first choice, an increase of 2,183 candidates compared to the first round in 2024. The Artificial Intelligence major also witnessed strong attraction with 2,754 candidates registering - a number far exceeding the previous year.

This signal shows that the trend of choosing majors related to the semiconductor industry is increasingly clear, reflecting the growing interest of society in this cutting-edge technology field.

At the same time, the Ministry of Education and Training is actively coordinating with universities and businesses at home and abroad to create spaces, seminars and forums to exchange experiences on semiconductor chips and human resource training.

Student of Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

In addition to the achieved results, the Ministry of Education and Training also recognized some current difficulties, especially the uneven capacity and experience in semiconductor training at many domestic universities, and the lack of an extensive academic, technological and international cooperation ecosystem.

To overcome this, the Ministry of Education and Training proposed to strengthen international cooperation in developing training programs, sending lecturers and students to exchange to learn from the experiences of advanced countries.

At the same time, it emphasizes the need for a coordination mechanism between domestic universities to avoid fragmentation and dispersion of resources, thereby forming a stronger and more effective training ecosystem for the semiconductor industry.

The Ministry of Education and Training also recommended that the Ministry of Finance promptly appraise and approve nine laboratory projects that have been submitted since the end of 2024. These are projects that play an important role in supporting practice, research and in-depth human resource training, helping students and lecturers access new technologies right in the learning environment.

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