Address:

Ngo Xuan Quang Street - Trauquy - Gialam - Hanoi - Vietnam 
Tel: 84 4 38276346

Fax: 84 4 38276554 

Email: webmaster@vnua.edu.vn

Mission statement

Hanoi Agricultural University embraces disciplines for agriculture and rural development of Vietnam. In pursuit of excellence in training, research and public service, HAU has strong commitment to successfully ensure agricultural and rural development, making contributions to realizing the industrialization and modernization of agriculture and the countryside.Being a leading national center of agricultural science, the university's goal is to provide high level manpower for, and improve productivity and efficiency of agriculture in such a way that uses the natural and agricultural resources available to satisfy economic, social, physical and ecological needs of the Vietnamese people using methods and systems that are sustainable, human, socially just and beneficial to the environment.

Vision

Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) is striving to become a multi-disciplinary center in education and research with nationally leading and regionally advanced quality in the areas of agriculture and rural development, making efficient contributions to the national development.

Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) is a key and leading national university in human resource training and scientific research in agriculture and rural development, becoming more and more diversified in fields of study with ever increasing prestige among the higher education system of Vietnam.

 comprises 14 Faculties, including Agronomy, Animal Science, Aquaculture, Veterinary Medicine, Environment, Land Management, Engineering, Economics and Rural Development, Accounting and Business Management, Political and Social Sciences, Food Science and Technology, Information Technology, Biotechnology, Education and Foreign Languages.

The University has four Research Institutes: Agro-Biology, Rice Research, Economics and Development, and Engineering Research and Training.

The University has 12 Centers for Research and Services, 1 publishing house, and 1 company (Ltd.) that functions primarily to transfer technical advances to meet societal demands.

VNUA has 25 Undergraduate Training Programs, 17 Master Training Programs, and 16 Doctoral Training Programs. In addition to the traditional fields of study related to agriculture, VNUA has developed new training programs in other fields in its trend towards a multi-disciplinary university. Of particular note, the University has developed several advanced training programs and joint training programs with foreign partners.

Every year, VNUA enrolls roughly 10,000 freshmen, 1,200 Master and nearly 60 Doctoral candidates.

Historical background

Hanoi Agricultural University (HAU) was established on October 12, 1956, as one of the first national universities of Vietnam. Since that time the University has become a center of higher education, research and technology transfer in agriculture of the country.

At its establishment the University was named Agro-Forestry University, which consisted of four Faculties: Agronomy, Animal and Veterinary Science, Farm Machinery Engineering and Forestry. In 1958 the University united with the institutes of Farming Research, Animal Production and Forestry to form the Agro-Forestry Institute. During the years 1960-1962 the Institute offered two more specializations: Fisheries and Agricultural Economics. In 1963 the Institute was split into Hanoi Agricultural University and the Vietnam Agricultural Science Institute. At the same time, the Faculty of Forestry was separated from the University to become the College of Forestry. Later, in 1966, the Faculty of Fisheries dissociated itself from the University to become the College of Fisheries.At present, HAU has 500 teaching staff, with 13 Professors and 49 Associate Professors, and 163 Ph.D. or D.Sc. degree holders and 174 Master's degree holders and 193 senior lecturers.

University's profile

Name: Hanoi Agricultural University

Year founded: 1956

Reorganized: 1958, 1960, 1963, and 1967

Renovated: since 1987

Total campus area: 205 ha situated on 12 km East from center of Hanoi

Annual student enrollment (as of 1998)

            - Full time system: 1,500

            - In-service (or part-time) system: 1,000

            - The 2^nd Bachelor degree: 200

            - Specific-upgrading programs: 300

            - Mistral programs: 200

            - Doctoral programs: 50

Teaching staff: 549

            - Faculty with advanced degree: 53%

            - Associate and full professors: 22%

Administrators and supportive staff: 335

Faculties: 10

Departments: 47

Main laboratories: 9

R & D center: 12

Information and Library Center: 1 (excluding faculty’s library)