Official name (VI): Trường Đại học Công Thương Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
Official name (EN): Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry and Trade
Abbreviation: HUFI
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Ho Chi Minh City University Industry and Trade is going to 40 years of establishment and development. Initially, it was named as school of Technical and Economic Junior College of Food Industry which established in Sept. 9, 1982. Then, the school upgraded to Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry (HUFI) according to the Decision No. 284/QD-TTg dated February 23, 2010 issued by the Prime Minister.
With the motto study Initiatively - Work creatively, the university always strives and attempts to enhance the training quality, with the purpose of being an educational institution to train highly qualified human resources, contributing to the industrialization and modernization process of the city and the whole country.
Currently, HUIT provides 34 undergraduate programs, 10 master programs and 3 tentative PhD programs in technology, engineering, business, economics as well as garment and fashion. Totally, the number of on campus students is more than 18,000.
Faculties and staffs
The number of HUFI’s staff members is ca. 720 peoples, including faculties and staffs, in which there are 02 full professors and 100 doctors. The average age of them is approximately of under 40. Most of them are running or taking part in research projects granted by the international/domestical university, ministry, regions and/or states, etc.
Past and Present presidents