What are the tuition fees for medical and pharmaceutical programs in 2024?

The University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Vietnam National University, Hanoi) anticipates that tuition fees for the 2024-2025 academic year for the Medical program will be 5.5 million VND per month. The university collects tuition for approximately 10 months, equivalent to 55 million VND per year.

The tuition fee for the Pharmacy program at this school is 5.1 million VND per month, or 51 million VND per year.

The remaining majors have tuition fees that are only half that of Medicine and Pharmacy. The annual fee is 27.6 million VND.

Hai Phong University of Medicine and Pharmacy plans to introduce two new tuition fee levels for two different groups of students.

For students enrolling before the 2023-2024 academic year, tuition fees are 3.5 million VND/month for Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy; 3.2 million VND/month for Preventive Medicine and Traditional Medicine; and 2.7 million VND/month for Nursing and Medical Laboratory Technology.

For students enrolling from the 2023-2024 academic year, the corresponding tuition fees are VND 4.5 million/month, VND 3.9 million/month, and VND 3.5 million/month, respectively.

For the 2025-2026 academic year, tuition fees will continue to increase by 1-1.3 million VND/month for all majors.

Specifically, the Medical, Dentistry, and Pharmacy majors charge 5.8 million VND/month; Preventive Medicine and Traditional Medicine majors charge 5 million VND/month; and Nursing and Medical Laboratory Technology majors charge 4.5 million VND/month.

This fee, calculated on average over the 10 months, is at most 58 million VND per academic year, which is higher than the current tuition fee at Hanoi Medical University.

Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy plans to charge tuition fees for the 2024-2025 academic year at VND 41.3 million per year for first-year students in Medicine, Traditional Medicine, and Pharmacy; and VND 31.2 million per year for Preventive Medicine, Nursing, and Medical Laboratory Technology.

Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy has announced the new tuition fee schedule for new students this year as follows: 4.6 million VND/month for medical and pharmaceutical fields (Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Preventive Medicine); 3.6 million VND/month for health-related fields (Nursing, Medical Laboratory Technology, Midwifery, Medical Imaging Technology, and Rehabilitation Technology).

Hai Duong Medical Technical University plans to charge the highest tuition fee for the 2024-2025 academic year, with the Medical program charging nearly 3.9 million VND per month.

The Medical Laboratory Technology, Medical Imaging Technology, and Rehabilitation Technology programs all have tuition fees exceeding 2.9 million VND per month.

The Nursing program alone has tuition fees of over 2.3 million VND per month.

Nam Dinh University of Nursing has announced the projected tuition fees for the 2024-2025 academic year based on the number of credits.

Accordingly, each credit costs 650,000 VND. On average, each student pays approximately 20.9 million VND per academic year.

The detailed number of credits for each major is as follows: Nursing and Midwifery have 143 credits, and Nutrition has 134 credits.

In addition, each major includes 8 credits in national defense and security education and 3 credits in physical education.

In the Central region, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Hue University) applies a tuition fee of 48.9 million VND/year for new students in the fields of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Meanwhile, the Traditional Medicine program has a tuition fee of 44 million VND per year.

The tuition fee for Preventive Medicine, Medical Laboratory Technology, Medical Imaging Technology, and General Nursing programs is 34.4 million VND per year.

The Midwifery and Nursing profession earns 32 million VND per year.

The Public Health major has the lowest tuition fee at 29.3 million VND per year.

Notably, the Pharmacy program at Hanoi University of Pharmacy will maintain the same tuition fee for the 2024-2025 academic year as last year, at 24.5 million VND per year.