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On June 10, DTU graduation ceremony was held for Masters, Bachelors, Pharmacy, Architecture and Engineering graduates and Associate Bachelors and Professional graduates, at the Trung Vuong Theater in Danang. 253 postgraduate students, 1,693 university Bachelors, and 71 college Bachelors received their diplomas. They form qualified and well-trained human resources who will contribute to the improvement of the country’s workforce, and in particular to that of Central Vietnam and the Central Highlands.

 

 

Speaking at the graduation ceremony, Dr Vo Thanh Hai, DTU Vice - Provost, congratulated the newly graduated Masters and Bachelors in addition to highlighting the school’s achievements in past years. The year 2017–2018 saw many big prizes that DTU lecturers and students won. Among these are the 3D application for medicine which won the first prize at the Vietnamese Talent Awards and was mentioned in the 2018 Sao Khue awards. University staff and lecturers authored almost a thousand ISI and Scopus papers. In particular, DTU was ranked sixth in the top 10 of Vietnamese research and education institutions with most ISI publications. DTU students also won many impressive prizes, such as one student in the CDIO Academy 2017 winning team and a first prize in the Imagine CUP 2018. 94.4% of DTU graduates find employment and are highly appreciated by businesses.

 

 

At the ceremony, DTU also awarded prizes to the valedictorians of its Master’s and university Bachelor’s degrees. Among them was Mr Le Phuoc Thiet (85 years old), who completed a Master of Business Administration. Overcoming many obstacles of health and transport (He lives in Quang Nam and came to Danang to study), he received his Master’s degree to the happiness of himself and his family and to the pride of his grandchildren and his classmates. Witnessing an old man who is still passionate about learning despite his age made today’s graduates admire him, and they will keep him as an example of life-long learning.

 

Among the many guests at the ceremony was Mr Weiger Cornelissen, Development Center Manager of Sioux Tech Software, who expressed his happiness and confidence at the educational quality of the school. “My company is a software development center,” he said. “We came to Danang to find quality human resources to meet the huge future development requirements of the company. Seeing that Danang possesses good infrastructure and a suitable investment climate, we stayed here and contributed many smart applications to the location in the five past years. That I am here at your graduation ceremony today is because of the good relations Sioux Tech Software and DTU established many years ago. There are many DTU graduates working at our company. DTU alumni work very efficiently, and I cannot forget to mention Lam Khuong Trung, a skilled engineer with very good English language skills in his job. This shows how the university’s quality educational programs trains skilled students and from there created the DTU brand. We hope to welcome even more DTU Bachelors to work in our company in the future.”

 

  

 

The graduation ceremony turned even livelier as lecturers and students of the school who won big prizes in national or international competitions, in group or individually, received valuable awards. These included a first prize at the Medicine and Pharmacy Youth Science Conference, a first prize at the Imagine CUP 2018, a first prize in the 2017 Students and Information Security contest of Central Vietnam, a second prize at the national finals of the VNPT2018 Information Security contest for students, a second prize at the Xth National Student Chemistry Olympiad 2018, a third prize at the 2017 national “Students and Scientific Research” contest, first, second, and third prizes at the XIth national Architecture Student Festival 2018, second and third prizes at the 2018 Startup Wheel contest, and the championship of the first Danang Student Futsal Championship 2018.

 

In addition to the awards conferred by DTU, the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development in Danang granted seven scholarships worth 5 million vnd each, and MBLAND awarded twenty scholarships worth 2.5 million vnd each to students with outstanding study achievements. 

 

Saying farewell to DTU and to her friends through many years of studying, Nguyen Thi Ai Linh,  valedictorian of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, shared some of her emotions. “To obtain today’s result, we are grateful to our teachers and to our parents who did not spare themselves any hardship to lift us up to the road towards our studies and to turn us into people who will be useful in life,” she said. “Choosing to study at DTU was the right choice. We are really confident that our abilities will allow us to establish ourselves and repay our gratitude towards our parents and teachers. We promise that we will do our best to apply the knowledge we acquired at DTU to do a good job.”