1. Overview of Quy Nhon University
1.1. Establishment Process
Two
years after Independence Day, the Minister of Education (the Ministry of
Education and Training - MOET now) issued Decision No. 1842/QD on December 21,
1977, creating the Quy Nhon Pedagogical University Campus. On July 13, 1981,
the Council of Ministers (known as the Government now) approved Decision
No.02/HDBT to establish Quy Nhon Pedagogical University with the mandate to
train and nurture teachers for high schools for the South-Central Coast and
Highlands.
In
Decision No. 221/2003/ QD-TTg, the Prime Minister authorized to change of Quy
Nhon Pedagogical University’s name to Quy Nhon University (QNU) on October 30,
2003. As a consequence, QNU has developed into a multidisciplinary training
institution that has significantly aided in the socioeconomic development of
the provinces of the South-Central Coast and the Central Highlands in
particular, and Vietnam in general, thus serving the goals of constructing
socialism and defending the fatherland.
1.2. Mission, vision and core values of the University
The
mission, vision, and core values of Quy Nhon University are clearly and
precisely defined; appropriated to the functions, tasks, resources, and
development orientation of the University; associated with the socio-economic
development strategy of the region and the whole country.
Mission: QNU is a multi-disciplinary higher education institution
with the mission of training and developing high-quality human resources,
fostering talents, and undertaking scientific research. The university is also
responsible for imparting knowledge and facilitating technology transfer to
effectively serve the country's sustainable development, especially the
South-Central and Central Highlands regions, contributing to society's
progress.
Vision: By 2030, Quy Nhon University will become a
multi-disciplinary higher education institution with high prestige and quality
standards in Southeast Asia and attain a vital position in training
cooperation, research, and academic and cultural exchanges at home and abroad.
Core
Value: Responsibility - Professionalism -
Quality - Creativity - Humanity
Educational Philosophy: Comprehensive - Liberal - Practical
Quality
Assurance Policy: Constantly improving the quality
of training, scientific research, and community service; ensure that learners
develop their capabilities and qualities comprehensively, can adapt to change,
and meet society's demand for high-quality human resources.
1.3. Summary of outstanding achievements of QNU in the period
2017 – 2022
Since 2017, to implement the recommendations of the external assessment team
and the Education Accreditation Council, QNU has implemented a plan to enhance
the quality of education after the external assessment. Thanks to that, the
university can overcome shortcomings, improve education quality and maintain
quality assurance conditions.
From 2019 to 2022, QNU implements the Project of QNU’s Renovating the organizational
structure with a vision to 2030. The project is expected to dissolve, merge and
establish numerous new departments, updating and completing the strategic plan
and regulations to continuously improve the effectiveness of leadership and
management to meet the innovation requirements of Vietnam's higher education.
Consequently, as of November 2022, the University has 724 official staff and
employees, including 495 academic staff, including one professor, 31 associate
professors, 192 Ph.D., 60 lecturers being researchers in Vietnam and abroad;
642 official staff, 62 permanent employees, and 21 casual employees. In
addition, the proportion of full-time academic staff with professor, associate,
and Ph.D. degrees accounted for 45.25%. QNU has established a solid foundation
to enhance teaching quality, innovate, and elevate the quality of educational
institutions and training programmes at all levels thanks to the priority of
developing high-quality academic staff who received education at renowned
domestic and international universities. The University is also moving toward
modernization, standardization, and cross-cultural fusion.
QNU
is currently training 50 bachelor's and engineering programmes, with
approximately 14,000 full-time undergraduates. Additionally, QNU provides
Vietnamese training at the bachelor level for hundreds of Laotian students from
the provinces of Attapeu, Champasak, Salavan, and Sekon. Moreover, the training
programme is periodically reviewed, updated, and developed to improve the
training quality and meet the stakeholders' requirements.
The
IT infrastructure has been gradually modernized to meet the needs of teaching,
learning, scientific research, and problem-solving. The working rooms, lecture
halls, libraries, examination centers, self-study rooms, and exercise and
sports centers have been invested with modern equipment. Moreover, the
surroundings and scenery of QNU are always green, clean, beautiful, and
secured.
QNU
asserts that everything must serve society and become an independent
university. Thus, applied research, creating scientific and technological
products, commercialization associated with business development, and local
socio-economic development as the direction needed to be focused and developed
along with fundamental research. From 2017 to 2021, the number of topics,
research programmes at all levels, and projects from the University's
international, national, local, and corporate funding increased sharply.
Besides, four international programmes have been approved; QNU has been
sponsored by the VLIR-UOS Organization (Belgium) for the 10-year IUC Programme,
with a budget of up to 6 million Euros. With domestic partners, the University
has obtained funding from Vingroup up to 10 billion VND.
QNU
has established a quality assurance network inside, including University
Quality Assurance Council and Quality Assurance Teams at departments. The
University has also developed an improvement plan to enhance higher education
quality under Project 69 of the Prime Minister from 2021 to 2025, which clearly
shows the roadmap for implementing the quality assurance work of the University
in the five years (2021-2025). From 2019 up to now, the University has had 12
university training programmes that meet educational accreditation standards
according to the Ministry of Education and Training's standards; two master's
programmes were externally evaluated in September 2022. At the same time, the
University has finished the necessary things for the second round of
self-assessment. It is expected that QNU will coordinate with the Center for
Accreditation of Education Quality to organize the second assessment in
December 2022. That is the result of the priority policies for the quality
assurance work of the University in the period 2017 - 2022. The University had
also connected and participated in the UPM (University Performance Metrics)
when this system was just established. According to the assessment results of
UPM, the University has been ranked as a 4-star in Southeast Asia.
In
order to build values for society and improve the university's reputation, the
university has conducted several social events related to its strengths. These
regular activities include encouraging and boosting standards for tens of
thousands of teachers at all levels, taking part in research to address the
local economic issues, society, and environment, student volunteer movements,
and blood donation.
With the accomplishments mentioned above, QNU has consistently earned the
Excellent Labor Collective Award and Certificate of Merit from the MOET for the
academic year 2017–2018. Additionally, The University received the MOET's
Emulation Flag in 2019–2010.
1.4. The university organizational structure
Currently, the University has 12 faculties, 01 university-managed department,
10 professional departments, 01 library, 01 institute, 03 financial dependent
centers, 01 financially dependent institute, and 05 financial dependent
centers.
1.5. Organizational structure of the University Council
QNU University Council for the term
2020 - 2025 consists of 19 members, of which 12 are University official staff,
01 student, and 06 outside members. The Chairman of the School Council is
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quang Ngoan. The university council includes 04 boards:
Training and Quality Assurance Board, Human Resources and Legal Board, Finance
- Facilities Board, and Science, Technology and Cooperation Board.
2. Introduction to Finance-Banking and Business Administration
2.1. Formation and Development
Process
In
July 1994, Quy Nhon Pedagogical University and National Economics University
signed a contract for joint training in business administration. This event has
laid the first "brick" for building and developing the fields of
Business Administration, Accounting, Finance and Banking, and Economics. The
first year of enrollment for business administration majors – September 1994 –
Quy Nhon Pedagogical University recruited 65 students majoring in Tourism
Business Administration. The Department of History - Politics was in charge of
supervising the first course's students.
On
June 7, 1996, the Rector of the University signed Decision No. 118/QD to
establish the Technology - Law - Economy Committee to manage the second phase
of the joint training programmes: Tourism Business Management, Commercial
Business Management, Accounting (cooperated with National Economics
University), Business Administration (cooperated with Hanoi University of
Science and Technology), Law (cooperated with Hanoi Law University),
Electronics and Electrical Engineering (cooperated Hanoi University of Science
and Technology and Danang University of Technology).
The
two-stage training system was abolished in 1998 to improve managerial
effectiveness and emphasize long-term development. On July 14, 1998, the Rector
of the University signed Decision No. 220/QD to form the Economic-Law Committee
based on the General University Board and the Law-Economics sector of the
Technology-Law-Economics Committee.
The
Prime Minister announced Decision No. 221/2003 / QD-TTg allowed Quy Nhon
Pedagogical University to change its name to Quy Nhon University on October 30,
2003. It is a critical milestone affirming that QNU's interdisciplinary
training development strategies ushers in a new phase of growth for the
non-pedagogical disciplines, which are economics and business administration.
In the following years, the bachelor programmes of Accounting, Finance-Banking
(first enrollment in the academic year 2007 - 2008), and Economics were
respectively founded.
On
October 14, 2009, the Rector of QNU signed Decision No. 1231/QD-ĐHQN to
separate the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration into the
Department of Economics and Accounting and the Department of Finance, Banking
and Business Administration (FBA). Thus, FBA takes the annual March 27 as a
traditional date.
FBA
has now trained and supplied personnel resources directly to Binh Dinh
province, the Central-Coast Highlands region. Additionally, the Department has
educated thousands of graduates in many training specialties that have
satisfied societal demands.
2.2. Mission – Vision – Goals – Educational philosophy
Mission: training bachelor students in all aspects of competence and
quality, with social responsibility in finance, banking, business management,
tourism, and hotel management, logistics and supply chain management. This
mission is achieved by constantly enhancing the programmes to international
standards, strengthening scientific research, and improving teaching staff's
quality to effectively serve the country's sustainable development, especially
for the South-Central and Highlands region.
Vision: By 2030, the Department of Finance, Banking, and Business
Administration will be a prestigious application-oriented training institution
in finance, business management, tourism, and hotel management, logistics and
supply chain management. FBA can meet the quality standards of Southeast Asia,
ensuring that graduates gain employment and swiftly acclimate to the global
economy.
Goal: To construct the Department to become a renowned
institution in training, scientific research, and scientific consulting in
Finance, Banking, and Business Administration in Binh Dinh, the South-Central
and Highlands region, and the whole country. FBA builds a team of highly
qualified teaching and management staff with a strong science background.
Additionally, the training programmes catch up with the higher education level,
approach the worldwide development trend, obtain high competitiveness, and adapt
to global integration.
Specific
Goals:
· Constantly improving training quality, ensuring learners
learn modern professional knowledge, be trained in skills, and cultivate
professional ethics;
· Develop the training scale appropriately, especially form
and gradually increase the scale and training quality of the Master's degree;
apply modern teaching tools actively in the teaching and learning process;
· Thoroughly implement the active teaching method with the
motto "Teach how to learn, promote the initiative of learners";
modernize the training programme step by step;
· Promoting scientific research, establishing the links
between scientific research with training and serving the society; increasing
income from scientific, production, and service activities;
· Strengthening international cooperation to support training
activities, science, and technology transfer, and maximize benefits from
international cooperation to serve society;
· Build a sufficient quantity of academic staff and managers
with ethical qualities and professional conscience, excellent professional
qualifications, advanced teaching and working methods.
Educational
philosophy: Learning to know, learning to do,
learning to live together and contribute to society.
2.3. Organizational structure, academic and official staff
FBA has been gradually developing and
becoming a prestigious training address in Vietnam. Currently, the Department
has 42 academic staff and three official staff, of which there are two
associate professors, 23 doctorates, and 17 masters (including four domestic
and foreign Ph.D. candidates). The Department has 03 subjects: Business and
Management, Finance - Banking, Tourism and Hospitality Management.
2.4. Size and academic programmes
At
the bachelor level, FBA offers the following five majors: Finance-Banking,
Business Administration, Tourism Management, Hotel Management, Logistics and
Supply Chain Management. There is one master’s programme available for those
who want further education is Master of Business Administration. The Department
has approximately 3,383 full-time students. The vast majority of graduates are
able to satisfactorily fulfill the job and society's requirements. Many former
students and graduates achieve success as prominent managers, scientists, and
entrepreneurs.
Regarding
the training outcomes, FBA has trained more than 2,700 bachelors in Finance and
Banking, 3,200 bachelors in Business Administration, 140 bachelors in
Hospitality Management, and more than 50 bachelors in Tourism Management.
2.5. Scientific research and international cooperation
Regarding
scientific research, only in the last four years, FBA's academic staff have
participated in 08 ministerial-level projects, 08 provincial-level projects,
and 35 university-level projects. Additionally, they have published 37 articles
in international journals, more than 50 articles in Proceedings of
international conferences, and more than 150 in scientific journals and
domestic conferences. Besides, they participated in writing 20 university
textbooks.
The
student research movement has expanded tremendously. FBA's students gained top
honors at the annual award presented by the Ministry of Education and Training
thanks to enthusiastic instruction from highly qualified academic staff. With
international cooperation, FBA is extending its affiliation with Prince of
Songkla University, Thailand, for bachelor training and scientific research.
With
those outstanding contributions, many of FBA's academic staff were honored to
receive the Certificate of Merit from the Minister of Education and Training
and the Chairman of Binh Dinh Provincial People's Committee.
In
the coming years, FBA will continue to cultivate the academic staff and enhance
the quality of teaching and scientific research. The lecturers continue to
build and update training curricula at all educational levels in line with
development trends and meet society's needs, further promoting scientific
research, especially topics towards life application and technology transfer.
2.6. Introduction to the Bachelor of Business Administration
Programme
The
bachelor of business administration programme aims to train employees with good
political and ethical qualities and a high sense of social responsibility.
Graduates holding a Bachelor of Business Administration can master the basic
knowledge of social, natural, political, legal, economic, and management
sciences. They have comprehensive knowledge and in-depth, modern business
administration skills; they can work independently, think creatively, and adapt
to the change in the global business environment. The bachelor's degree
programme in Business Administration with a university degree has a total
volume of knowledge of 135 credits (not including the conditional subjects of
General Education, Defense, and Security), and the training period is four years.
The programme is designed with three narrow majors: Business Administration,
Marketing Management, and International Trade.
A
Bachelor in Business Administration can:
·Working for
firms, corporations, joint ventures, non-profit organizations, social groups,
and NGOs. He (She) might start their own business, conduct scientific research,
and teach at universities and colleges.
·Being in
human resource management, financial management, production management,
marketing management, supply chain management, strategic management, import,
and export.
·Functioning
such as specialists in the sales, planning, marketing, administrative, and
human resources departments, a specialist in strategy development and market
development, and seeking partners at companies that provide a service,
companies that manufacture import-export products, or multinational
corporations.
·Be promoted
to executive positions such as CEO or CFO, and start and lead their businesses.
·Start running
a shop, become an agent, or represent a company as a distributor of products in
for local or foreign market.
·Attending
short-term courses to develop and upgrade expertise in international business
and economics.
·Taking
courses for a second bachelor's degree, preferably in a related field.
·Enroll in a
master's or doctorate programme in business administration or an
economics-related discipline at a university in the Vietnam or abroad.