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THE FOUNDATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 1. CAN THO INSTITUTE (1966 - 1975) Founded on March 3, 1966, Can Tho Institute had 4 faculties: Sciences, Law and Social Sciences, Letters, and Education. Previously, the Faculty of Education was training undergraduate (bachelor degree) students, the College of Agriculture was training engineers, and the Center of Foreign Languages was offering foreign language courses. The facilities of Can Tho Institute were located in four places: - The President’s Building (No 5, Hoa Binh Avenue): was the administration center of the Institute. - Campus I (30 – 4 Street): with an area of over 5 hectares, was used as the accommodation for staff members, the dormitory for female students, a model public school for teacher training, the College of Agriculture, and administration buildings for the faculties. - Campus II: (3 – 2 Street): with the area of 87 hectares, contained the main classroom buildings of the Institute. - Campus III: (No 1, Ly Tu Trong Street): with the area of 0,65 hectares, was the first training area consisting of the Faculty of Sciences and the library.
Campus II, Can Tho University (1966)
The first rows of classrooms in Campus II (1973) 2. CTU AFTER 1975 Can Tho Institute was changed to Can Tho University. At that time, the training program and existing students of the old Faculty of Education and College of Agriculture continued to be trained within the Faculties of Science Education and Agriculture at Can Tho University. Students of other faculties were transferred to Ho Chi Minh City or to other existing programs at the University. After 1975, the Faculty of Education was separated into the Faculties of Science Education and Social Science-Humanities Education, training upper secondary teachers of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, literature, history, geography, and foreign languages. After that, they were expanded to 5 separate faculties: mathematics - physics (1980), chemistry - biology (1980), history - geography (1982), letters (1983) and foreign languages (1983). The College of Agriculture was changed to the Faculty of Agriculture, with 2 training specializations, agronomy and animal husbandry. In 1979, the Faculty of Agriculture was expanded to 7 faculties: agronomy (1977), animal husbandry – veterinary medicine (1978), water management and land improvement (1978), agricultural engineering (1978), food processing and agricultural product preservation (1978), agricultural economics (1979), and fisheries (1979).
Almost all the classrooms were made of bamboo and thatch leaves (1976).
In 1978, the Faculty of In-service Training
was established. It was responsible for managing and developing programs
to improve and train upper secondary teachers and others in applied
engineering to help control the production of the provinces in the
In 1987, to meet the requirement for
developing a market-oriented economy in line with the renewal policy of
the Communist Party and the Government, the Faculty of Agricultural
Economics linked itself with the Ho Chi Ming Economic University and
opened 4 more undergraduate specializations: Finance - Credit, General
Accounting, Foreign Trade and Business Administration. Similarly, in
1988, the Faculty of Water Management expanded and added 2 undergraduate
specializations, hydraulic structure and rural construction, to meet the
need for constructing houses and bridges in the rural areas of the
In 1990, the faculty of mathematics - physics opened a college-training program with 2 specializations, electronics and informatics. It did so by upgrading its existing electrical workshop to the Center of Electronics - Informatics. In addition to the establishment and development of the faculties, Can Tho University also established Centers of Scientific Research integrating 3 missions, Training – Scientific Research - Production. From 1985 to 1992, 7 centers were founded, including the Centers of Biotechnology Research and Development (1985), Renewed Energy (1987), Mekong Delta Farming Systems Research and Development (1988), Electronics – Informatics (1990), Shrimp - Artemia Research and Development (1991), Foreign Languages (1991), Science and Technology Information (1992). In April 2003, the School of Medicine – Dentistry – Pharmacy was separated to form the University of Medicine – Pharmacy under the management of the Ministry of Health.
CTU Main Entrance
Rectorate Building During its formation and development processes, CTU always receives support from the Government and the Ministry of Education and Training.
Governmental delegations and the Minister of Education and Training visit the University. The present organizational structure of Can Tho University is as follow: The schools and colleges: 1) College of Sciences 2) School of Education 3) College of Agriculture and Applied Biology 4) College of Technology 5) College of Information & Communication Technology 6) School of Economics and Business Administration 7) School of Law 8) College of Aquaculture and Fisheries 9) School of Marxist-Leninist and Ho Chi Minh Thought Research institutes: 1) Biotechnology Research and Development Institute 2) Mekong Delta Farming Systems Research and Development Institute Directly-under (partial) units: 1) Center of Military Education 2) Department of Physical Education 3) Center of Foreign Languages 4) Science and Technology Information Center 5) Center of Services 6) Hoa An Center of Research – Experimental - Biodiversity 7) Learning resource Center Supporting departments and boards: 1) Dept. of Administration and Planning 2) Dept. of Academic Affairs 3) Dept. of Scientific Affairs 4) Dept. of International Relations and Project Management 5) Dept. of Personnel 6) Dept. of Political Affairs 7) Dept. of Financial Affairs 8) Dept. of Facility Management 9) Dept. of Student Assistance 10) Dept. of Legality 11) Construction Management Board
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