Which university has the most professors and associate professors?

This article lists the number of professors and associate professors at universities with a training scale of 10,000 students or more in the 2024-2025 school year. Most of these universities are training all three levels including university, masters and doctorates.

The statistics in this article may not be complete for all universities because some schools have not updated information on their websites, or have updated but cannot access the files.

Trường ĐH nào có nhiều giáo sư, phó giáo sư nhất?- Ảnh 1. — Associate professors appointed to positions in 2024 at Van Lang University, from left to right: Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Phu Thuong Luu, Associate Professor, Dr. Do Thi Thuy Trang and Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Phan Duy

The data shows that the school with the largest university training scale is Van Lang University, with nearly 55,000 students, and is also the unit with the largest total number of lecturers, 1,784 lecturers (the annual report of the University of Transport shows that this school has more lecturers, but due to the calculation method of one lecturer teaching many majors, it is not considered the correct data according to the calculation method of the Ministry of Education and Training). In particular, Van Lang University also has the most professors, 94.

Ranked second in terms of the number of professors is Can Tho University, 24. This is also the unit with the second largest training scale in statistics with 45,779 students.

Next is Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry with 20 professors, Hanoi University of Science and Technology 19, Hanoi University of Construction 17, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology 16, Nguyen Tat Thanh University 14...

Some universities do not have professors for the 2024-2025 school year, such as Foreign Trade University, University of Transport, University of Finance - Marketing, Thu Dau Mot University, An Giang University (Ho Chi Minh City National University), Dong Thap University, Vinh Long University of Technical Education.

The unit with the largest number of associate professors is Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 280. This is the school with the third largest total student population. Next is Can Tho University (182), Hanoi University of Education (128), University of Water Resources (93), Hanoi University of Civil Engineering (90).

According to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training on the conversion coefficient of full-time lecturers and guest lecturers participating in teaching at university level, lecturers with the title of associate professor have a coefficient of 3, lecturers with the title of professor have a coefficient of 5 (lecturers with university level are 0.3, master's is 1, doctoral is 2).

The Ministry of Education and Training also stipulates that the condition for opening a master's degree training program is to have at least 5 PhDs in the appropriate field as full-time lecturers, including one professor or associate professor with at least 3 years of experience in training management or university teaching (not overlapping with full-time lecturers as a condition for opening a master's degree training program in other fields), responsible for presiding over the development and organization of the training program.

As for the doctoral degree program, there must be at least 1 professor or 2 associate professors and 3 PhDs in the appropriate field as full-time lecturers. Of which, 1 professor or associate professor has at least 3 years of experience in training management or university teaching (not overlapping with full-time lecturers, which is a condition for opening doctoral training programs in other fields), responsible for presiding over, developing, and organizing the implementation of the training program.

Below is specific information according to Thanh Nien 's calculations based on public data of the schools: