DTU and Business

Many Job Opportunities Offered to DTU Graduates

Except for the lucky ones, thousands of graduates still have great difficulty finding work in such a competitive job market.

Despite the economic crisis however, DTU has overcome many obstacles to reach new heights of achievement in this issue. Currently, eighty-nine percent of students are employed within six months of graduation, with one-hundred percent of graduates from the CMU program finding jobs at local IT companies, which is impressive. As the first and largest private university in Central Vietnam, DTU faculty and staff are proud to educate so many qualified students at all levels to meet local labor requirements.

A Job Fair is held by DTU every year

It took Mr. Le Cong Co, DTU Chairman and Provost, many years to establish Duy Tan University, based on the models of other universities worldwide. Over the past seventeen years, the DTU Board of Provosts has made remarkable efforts to update curricula and improve teaching quality, in order to create the optimum educational environment for their students.

These accomplishments of the entire DTU faculty and staff have been highly appreciated by the community. In addition to the five campuses around Danang, DTU has recently been granted ninety hectares in Hoa Vang Province to construct a new building there. Meanwhile, DTU has invested thousands of dollars to establish new, well-equipped laboratories and libraries. In 2007, DTU converted to a “credit-based system” giving more opportunity for students to excel. The year after that, DTU began expanding relationships partnerships with several foreign universities.

Standing on “the shoulders of giants” is not as difficult as gaining an outstanding reputation for DTU. In 2008, DTU officially became a partner of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), one of the four leading IT institutions in America. Four years later, one-hundred percent of the first CMU graduates found jobs immediately. So now, students enrolling in the advanced programs of PSU (Pennsylvania State University) and CSU (California State University) are quickly targeted by local companies.

Students make applications at the DTU Job Fair

Every year, hundreds of DTU faculties are sent overseas for training. Conversely, lecturers from universities worldwide are invited to teach DTU students in Danang. As the quality of education has steadily improved, now Appalachian State University, Lorain Country Community College, in Ohio, USA, Coventry University in England, Auston Institute in Singapore have all signed approvals for DTU students to complete their bachelor degrees abroad.

Besides their basic education, DTU students are also taught how to exercise their soft skills, and finished well in many national competitions. Students include Ba Thanh Huy, who first prize in the Mathematics Olympiad, Dang Xuan Nam, who won the 2010 Loa Thanh Prize, Thai Bao Long, with first prize in the 2011 International Short Film Competition, Nguyen Tran My Linh, who came first in the 2011 Miss U-League Beauty Contest, Nguyen Thi Xuan Trang, winner of 2012 Miss Danang Pageant, Pham Thi Thuy My, runner up in the 2012 Miss Star Contest, and so on.

Over the past seventeen years, DTU has gained a reputation as a university with a highly-qualified faculty and talented students. More than three-hundred national and international companies, such as Enclave, Lac Viet, Work West, the DTT Group, the Nam Hai Resort, the InterContinental Group, Gameloft and so on have established relationships with DTU, with the objective of employing DTU students, thanks to the foresight of the DTU Board of Provosts, faculty and staff.

Since 1999, the DTU Job Fair has connected graduates with potential employers. Recently, twenty-seven banks and other companies participated in the Job Fair held on June 2^nd. Four thousand students applied for two-thousand, seven-hundred jobs. Mr. Hoang Trung Dung, the Hanoi Maritime Bank HR Manager said: “Talented students are all welcome at our bank and we are here today looking for highly-qualified new staff. Currently, we have six-thousand employees, which is estimated to increase to eleven-thousand by 2014. I hope to see many DTU students submitting their CVs to us”.

The graduation ceremony of K13 (2007-2012)

DTU has expanded partnerships with local companies to help DTU students and graduates find jobs or internships to gain practical experience. At the graduation ceremony on June 3^rd, Mr. Vuong Bao Long, the LogiGear Vietnam HR Manager, announced his intention of hiring sixteen new CMU graduates to work for LogiGear. Mr. Michael Hackett, Vice-Chairman of Logigear said: “I am really impressed by the questions that students asked me. I think they have made wise decisions to enroll in a university that has become so well-known for the quality of its educational environment and teaching. As a result, more and better job opportunities will be available for DTU graduates”.

Mr. Le Cong Co, DTU Chairman and Provost agreed. He said “Most DTU graduates have been working for national companies in different positions, such as managers, administrators, supervisors. More and more companies want to partner with DTU and offer various job opportunities to DTU students. This demonstrates that DTU is a great choice for local and regional companies, thanks to the emergence of such outstanding talented graduates”.

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