The fruit of Franco-Vietnamese cooperation

The University of Science and Technology of Hanoi is the symbol of a fruitful and innovative cooperation between France and Vietnam in education and research.

The University of Science and Technology of Hanoi is a new model of university for Vietnam, combining education, research and partnership with enterprises, offering high-level scientific education with the aim of training the future teachers-researchers and executives of Vietnam with an international dimension.

In order to develop the quality of student training, the USTH is committed to

• Create a new model of university management
• Building a university of excellence with international influence
• Reforming higher education in Vietnam
• Building a high level of scientific and technological cooperation between France and Vietnam in a sustainable manner

The USTH university curriculum

Studying at the USTH means benefiting from quality teaching in English, with an international focus, technological innovation and the business world. It also means receiving a diploma accredited by France, and consequently by the European Union and Vietnam, in the forms provided for by the Bologna Convention: Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, and Doctorate in 3/5/8 years respectively and the ECTS system of European credits.

Thanks to the intergovernmental agreement between Vietnam and France, the USTH Consortium can deliver :

• a Vietnamese Bachelor's degree in Science and Technology, in the process of being accredited by France,
• six Masters degrees, all accredited by France
• a Vietnamese Doctorate degree.

Thus, a student receiving a Master's degree from the USTH Consortium holds a Vietnamese diploma and a diploma from one of the French partner universities (French national diploma) including Aix-Marseille University.

Thanks to the USTH Consortium of 2010, Aix-Marseille Université has become a real partner of the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (USTH).

Previously, the formalized cooperation had taken the form of the accreditation of three delocalized Masters, whose accreditation had been renewed in 2016 until the year 2021:

• Materials and Nanotechnologies;
• Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies;
• Biotechnology-Pharmacology.

What prospects for Aix-Marseille Université students?

Since then, and in the context of the evolution of its Masters in HCERES in 2021, the USTH has launched a new strategic orientation project for the next 5 years. This project responds to various internal issues of the USTH, as well as to changes in the Vietnamese socio-economic environment.

Aix-Marseille University is participating in this new project and is fully in line with the French government's political initiative for scientific cooperation with Vietnam.

It is in this dynamic that on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at the end of the General Assembly of the USTH Consortium in September 2021, Mr Eric Berton, wished to deepen the Franco-Vietnamese collaboration, by signing An agreement on the implementation of the Double Degree Chemistry, Physics-Chemistry course in international mobility. The students will complete the first two years of their Bachelor's degree in Hanoi and will go to France for the third year.