Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Engineering, formerly Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education (Abbreviation: HCMUTE, Vietnamese: Trðá»Âng ÃÂại há»Âc Công nghá» Kỹ thuáºÂt Thành phá» Há» ChàMinh) is a public university in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is currently regarded as one of the top technical universities in Vietnam.
This is a public university located in Thủ ÃÂức Ward, about north-east from downtown Ho Chi Minh City. This university offers multidisciplinary bachelor's degree from engineering, technology to economics, laws and linguistics. The university also conducts technical research and vocational training, in addition to educational cooperation with foreign universities in the US, the UK, Australia, France, Korea, Taiwan, etc.
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Engineering (HCMUTE) is the first university in Vietnam educating and training technical teachers for the whole country. Chronologically, HCMUTE has been renamed several times due to integration with other schools or its own promotion.
The university evolved from the Board of Technical Education, first founded on October 5, 1962, then renamed Nguyen Truong To Center for Technical Education in Thu Duc in September 1972, and later upgraded to Thu Duc College of Education in 1974. On October 27, 1976, the SRV Prime Minister issued a decision to establish Thu Duc University of Technical Education on the basis of Thu Duc College of Education. This was amalgamated with Thu Duc Industrial Vocational School in 1984 and further merged with Technical Teacher Training School No.5 in 1991 to become Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education. In 1995, the university incorporated with National University Ho Chi Minh City as an informal member. In 2000, HCMUTE became a member under supervision of Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam (MoET). In December 26, 2025, the Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam signed a decision to rename the university as the present day Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Engineering.
During its more than 60 years of development, HCMUTE has been granted many governmental awards for excellent performance, such as an Independence Decoration - Second Class (2012), Independence Decoration - Third Class (2007), a Labor Decoration - First Class (2001), a Labor Decoration -Second Class (1996), a Labor Decoration - Third Class (1985) by the SRV President, an Emulation Flag of the Government (2008), an Emulation Flag of the MoET (2009), Emulation Flag of Ho Chi Minh City People Committee (2012), many other Certificates of Merit and so on.
Ho Chi Minh University of Technology and Engineering has two campuses with total area of and of construction area includes 98 practice workshops () and 58 laboratories (), 175 classrooms with a total area of , size of each varying from .
Computers: 1,100 for teaching, learning and research; 450 for management and administration.
HCMUTE also has a football field (), three volleyball courts, a tennis court, a sporting event hall and two dormitories.
Ho Chi Minh University of Technology and Engineering is proud to be one of the first ten accredited universities in Vietnam, one of the first few universities applying ISO 9001 management system.
HCMUTE has ASEAN University Network â Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) Standard Accreditation for 18 programs:
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Engineering offers 45 Bachelor's Degrees, 16 Master's Degrees and 7 Doctorate Degrees in 14 Faculties and Institutes.