Can Tho University

Can Tho University, known in Vietnamese as Đại học Cần Thơ and abbreviated CTU, is a public multidisciplinary university in Can Tho, the largest city in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, founded in 1966 as an agricultural college and reorganised as a full university after reunification in 1975芹苴大学（越南语：Đại học Cần Thơ，简称 CTU）是位于越南湄公河三角洲最大城市芹苴市的公立综合性大学，1966 年以农学院起家，1975 年国家统一后改组为综合性大学。

It teaches through eight colleges and seven schools, offers roughly 100 undergraduate programmes, more than 40 master's programmes and 16 doctoral programmes, and enrolled 33,190 full-time undergraduates, 3,484 part-time undergraduates and 2,263 postgraduate students in 2024学校通过八个学院和七个学校开展教学，开设约 100 个本科专业、40 多个硕士专业和 16 个博士专业，2024 年有全日制本科生 33190 名、非全日制本科生 3484 名、研究生 2263 名。

QS placed Can Tho in the 1401+ band of its 2027 world ranking, Times Higher Education placed it in the 2001+ band for 2027, and U.S. News ranked it 2,116th in its 2026-2027 global list2027 年 QS 世界大学排名把芹苴列入 1401+ 区间，泰晤士高等教育 2027 年榜单将其列入 2001+ 区间，U.S. News 2026 至 2027 年度全球榜单则将其列为第 2116 名。

History

• The 1954 Geneva Accords divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel, and the Republic of Vietnam south of the line expanded higher education in the Mekong Delta during the 1960s to serve an agricultural economy built on rice and fish1954 年《日内瓦协议》以北纬十七度线分割越南，线以南的越南共和国在 1960 年代扩充湄公河三角洲的高等教育，以服务以稻米和渔业为基础的农业经济。
• In 1966 the South Vietnamese government founded an agricultural college in Can Tho with American technical and financial support, intending it to train agronomists for the delta's rice fields and orchards1966 年，南越政府在美国的技术与资金支持下于芹苴创办一所农学院，旨在为三角洲的稻田与果园培养农艺师。
• The college's first cohorts studied agricultural chemistry, crop science and animal husbandry in a delta where canals rather than roads carried most goods, so fieldwork began at the water's edge学院的首批学生在此学习农业化学、作物学与畜牧学，当时的三角洲主要依靠运河而非公路运输货物，田间实习往往就从水边开始。
• When the Ho Chi Minh Campaign ended the war in April 1975 and the Provisional Revolutionary Government under Huynh Tan Phat took control of the south, the college passed into the new administration1975 年 4 月，「胡志明战役」结束战争，黄晋发领导的越南南方共和临时革命政府接管南方，这所学院也随之转入新政权。
• Later in 1975 the institution was renamed Can Tho University and given the task of supplying the reunited country with agricultural engineers, teachers and health workers for the delta1975 年晚些时候，学院更名为芹苴大学，并承担起为统一后的国家培养三角洲地区农业工程师、教师与卫生人才的任务。
• In 1976, when the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed with Ton Duc Thang as president, the university reorganised its teaching around the new state's agricultural and teacher-training priorities1976 年，越南社会主义共和国宣告成立、孙德胜出任国家主席，学校围绕新国家的农业与师资培养重点重组了教学。
• Vo Tong Xuan, a rice scientist trained in the Philippines and Japan, became vice-rector in 1982 and spent fifteen years turning the university's research towards the practical problems of delta farmers曾在菲律宾和日本研修的稻作科学家武重春于 1982 年出任副校长，在此后十五年里推动学校科研转向三角洲农民的实际问题。
• The 1986 Sixth Party Congress under Nguyen Van Linh launched the Đổi Mới reforms, which shifted Vietnam from central planning to a market economy and changed what the university's graduates were expected to do1986 年阮文灵主持的越共六大启动「革新开放」，使越南从中央计划经济转向市场经济，也改变了社会对大学毕业生的期待。
• Land-lease and price reforms introduced in 1989 produced Vietnam's first post-war rice boom, and CTU's rice and soil research was drawn directly into the subsequent export drive1989 年推出的土地租赁与价格改革带来越南战后第一轮稻米增产，芹苴大学的水稻与土壤研究也直接介入随后的稻米出口扩张。
• In 1993 Vo Tong Xuan received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, often described as Asia's Nobel Prize, for his work on disease-resistant rice and for connecting Vietnamese farmers to international research1993 年，武重春因在抗病虫害水稻研究以及把越南农民与国际科研连接起来方面的贡献，获得被誉为「亚洲诺贝尔奖」的拉蒙·麦格赛赛奖。
• Vo Tong Xuan left CTU in 1997 and became rector of An Giang University in December 1999, carrying the delta's agricultural extension model into a new provincial institution武重春于 1997 年离开芹苴大学，并于 1999 年 12 月出任安江大学校长，把三角洲的农业推广模式带入这所新的省级院校。
• The Can Tho Bridge opened across the Hau River in April 2010, ending the city's dependence on ferries and giving the university's four campuses a faster road link to Ho Chi Minh City2010 年 4 月，横跨后江的芹苴大桥通车，结束了城市依赖渡轮的局面，也使学校四个校区与胡志明市之间的公路联系大为加快。
• The university marked its 50th anniversary in 2016, by which time it had grown from a single agricultural college into the delta's principal multidisciplinary institution2016 年，学校迎来建校五十周年，此时它已从一所农学院发展为三角洲地区最主要的多科性大学。
• In 2020, when COVID-19 closed campuses across Vietnam, CTU moved lectures and examinations online and used its agricultural stations for continuing field research under distancing rules2020 年新冠疫情使越南各地校园关闭，芹苴大学把课程与考试转到线上，并在保持社交距离的规定下利用农业试验站继续田间研究。
• The university's strategic planning named 2022 as the target year for recognition as one of the Asia-Pacific's leading universities in training and research, a goal it has pursued through accreditation and international partnerships学校的战略规划把 2022 年定为实现「成为亚太地区培训与研究领先大学」目标的时间节点，并通过国际认证与合作推进这一目标。
• In 2024 the university counted 33,190 full-time undergraduates, 3,484 part-time undergraduates, 2,263 postgraduate students and 283 doctoral candidates, a profile dominated by students from delta provinces2024 年，学校共有全日制本科生 33190 名、非全日制本科生 3484 名、研究生 2263 名和博士生 283 名，生源以三角洲各省为主。
• By 2026 CTU had consolidated its position as the delta's flagship university, with QS placing it in the 1401+ band of the 2027 world ranking and Times Higher Education listing it in the 2001+ band到 2026 年，芹苴大学已巩固其三角洲旗舰大学的地位，QS 将其列入 2027 年世界排名 1401+ 区间，泰晤士高等教育则将其列入 2001+ 区间。
• In July 1995 Vietnam joined ASEAN, opening regional academic exchange that CTU later used to build the partnerships behind its ASEAN University Network accreditation1995 年 7 月越南加入东盟，开启了区域学术交流，芹苴大学后来借此建立起支撑其东盟大学网络认证的合作关系。
• When Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization in 2007, rice and pangasius exports surged, and CTU's breeding, food-technology and economics programmes expanded in response to demand from exporters2007 年越南加入世界贸易组织后，稻米与巴沙鱼出口激增，芹苴大学的育种、食品技术与经济类专业也因出口企业的需求而扩张。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into eight colleges, namely Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Economics, Engineering, Environment and Natural Resources, Information and Communication Technology, Rural Development, and Natural Sciences教学分为八个学院，即农学院、水产与渔业学院、经济学院、工程学院、环境与自然资源学院、信息与通信技术学院、农村发展学院和自然科学学院。
• Seven schools complement the colleges, covering Education, Foreign Languages, Graduate Studies, Pre-University Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences and Humanities, and Law另有七个学校与学院并列，涵盖教育、外语、研究生、大学预科、政治学、社会科学与人文以及法律。
• Together the colleges and schools form 17 academic training units, including a practice high school and a physical education department that serve teacher training and general education学院与学校合计构成 17 个教学单位，其中包括一所附属实习高中和一个体育教研室，服务师资培养与普通教育。
• The university offers roughly 100 undergraduate programmes, more than 40 master's programmes including one joint degree, and 16 doctoral programmes, with three master's courses taught entirely in English学校开设约 100 个本科专业、40 多个硕士专业（含一个联合学位项目）和 16 个博士专业，其中三个硕士项目全程用英语授课。
• Two advanced undergraduate programmes are taught in English, an arrangement that supports the university's ambition to attract students from elsewhere in Southeast Asia学校还开设两个全英文授课的本科提高班，这一安排有助于其吸引东南亚其他地区的学生。
• CTU reported 1,104 academic staff in its QS institutional profile, while its own faculty profile lists 1,203 lecturers, of whom 233 hold doctorates and 653 hold master's degrees芹苴大学在 QS 机构档案中报告有 1104 名学术人员，而其自身师资档案列出 1203 名讲师，其中 233 人拥有博士学位、653 人拥有硕士学位。
• The College of Agriculture is the university's oldest unit and works on rice breeding, soil fertility, crop protection and post-harvest technology for the delta's export economy农学院是学校历史最久的单位，围绕三角洲出口经济开展水稻育种、土壤肥力、作物保护与采后技术研究。
• The College of Aquaculture and Fisheries supports Vietnam's pangasius catfish industry, one of the delta's largest export sectors, through breeding, disease and pond-management research水产与渔业学院通过育种、病害与池塘管理研究，支撑越南巴沙鱼产业这一三角洲最大的出口部门之一。
• The College of Engineering trains mechanical, electrical, civil and transportation engineers, and its laboratories serve the delta's food-processing, shipbuilding and construction firms工程学院培养机械、电气、土木与交通工程师，其实验室服务三角洲的食品加工、造船与建筑企业。
• The College of Information and Communication Technology is the newest of the eight colleges and supplies software and network specialists to Can Tho's growing technology sector信息与通信技术学院是八个学院中最新设立的一个，为芹苴不断成长的科技产业输送软件与网络专业人才。
• The College of Economics teaches agricultural economics, finance, accounting and business administration, reflecting the delta's need for managers in agribusiness and export trading经济学院教授农业经济学、金融、会计与工商管理，回应三角洲对农业综合企业与出口贸易管理人才的需求。
• The College of Environment and Natural Resources addresses salinity intrusion, water quality and land subsidence, three problems that intensified in the Mekong Delta during the 2010s环境与自然资源学院研究咸潮入侵、水质与地面沉降，这三个问题在 2010 年代的湄公河三角洲日益加剧。
• The College of Rural Development works on extension services, rural livelihoods and community development, often in partnership with provincial authorities and international donors农村发展学院从事推广服务、农村生计与社区发展研究，常与省级政府和国际捐助机构合作。
• Three research institutes sit outside the college structure, namely the Biotechnology Research and Development Institute, the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute and the Research Institute for Climate Change三个研究机构独立于学院体系之外，分别是生物技术研发研究所、湄公河三角洲发展研究所与气候变化研究所。
• Many of CTU's programmes hold accreditation from the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance system, which evaluates curricula against regional rather than national benchmarks芹苴大学的许多专业通过了东盟大学网络质量保障体系的认证，该体系以区域而非国别标准评估课程。
• The university's Learning Resource Center provides library, digital database and study space for all colleges, and functions as the main study hub on the Ninh Kieu campus学校的学习资源中心为各学院提供图书馆、数据库与自习空间，是宁桥校区的主要学习枢纽。
• The practice high school attached to the School of Education gives trainee teachers supervised classrooms, a rare arrangement among Vietnamese general universities教育学院附属的实习高中为师范生提供有指导的课堂实践，这在越南综合性大学中较为少见。
• Research collaboration runs through the delta's provincial governments and international donors, with climate-change adaptation and sustainable aquaculture the two most prominent themes of the 2020s科研合作依托三角洲各省政府与国际捐助机构展开，气候变化适应与可持续水产养殖是 2020 年代最突出的两个主题。
• Doctoral training is concentrated in agriculture, aquaculture, environment, economics and education, and the School of Graduate Studies administers admissions, supervision and thesis defence for all 16 doctoral programmes博士培养集中在农业、水产、环境、经济与教育领域，研究生院统一管理 16 个博士项目的招生、指导与论文答辩。

Campus

• The university's main administrative campus stands on 3/2 Street in Xuan Khanh Ward, Ninh Kieu District, in the heart of Can Tho city and a short walk from the Hau River waterfront学校的主要行政校区位于宁桥郡春庆坊 3/2 街，地处芹苴市中心，步行即可到达后江滨水地带。
• CTU operates four campuses, with Campus 1 on 30/4 Street, Campus 2 as the administrative and central teaching site, Campus 3 to the north and Campus 4 at Hoa An on the city's outskirts芹苴大学设有四个校区：一号校区位于 30/4 街，二号校区是行政与教学中心，三号校区位于城北，四号校区位于城郊的和安。
• Campus 4 at Hoa An contains experimental fields, orchards and aquaculture ponds where students in agriculture and fisheries carry out practical work和安四号校区拥有试验田、果园与水产养殖池塘，农业与渔业专业学生在此开展实践。
• The Learning Resource Center, a modern building on the central campus, houses the library, computer rooms and group study spaces used by students from all eight colleges学习资源中心是中心校区的一幢现代化建筑，内含图书馆、计算机房与小组学习空间，供八个学院的学生使用。
• Student dormitories on and near the central campus accommodate thousands of students from other delta provinces, many of whom are the first in their families to attend university中心校区内及周边的学生宿舍可容纳数千名来自三角洲其他省份的学生，其中不少人来自家族中第一代大学生。
• Can Tho sits on the Hau River about 170 kilometres southwest of Ho Chi Minh City, and the city's population reached roughly 1.2 million at the 2019 census芹苴位于后江沿岸，距胡志明市西南约 170 公里，2019 年人口普查时全市人口约 120 万。
• The Can Tho Bridge, opened in 2010, carries the national highway across the Hau River and connects the city and its universities to the road network running to Ho Chi Minh City2010 年通车的芹苴大桥把国道跨过后江，将芹苴市及其大学与通往胡志明市的公路网连接起来。
• Can Tho International Airport lies about 10 kilometres from the city centre and gives the university a direct air link for international students and visiting researchers芹苴国际机场距市中心约 10 公里，为国际学生与来访研究人员提供了直达的空中通道。
• Ninh Kieu wharf and its night market on the Hau River are the city's social centre, and students use the waterfront for evening study breaks and weekend gatherings后江畔的宁桥码头与夜市是城市的社交中心，学生常在滨水一带度过晚自习间隙与周末聚会。
• The surrounding delta is a landscape of canals, rice paddies and fruit orchards, and the Cai Rang floating market a few kilometres from campus supplies both produce and research material周边三角洲是运河、稻田与果园交织的景观，距校园数公里的采朗水上市场既供应农产品，也提供研究素材。
• Can Tho is the administrative, commercial and educational capital of the Mekong Delta, and CTU is the largest university in the city, a position that gives it close ties to provincial governments across the region芹苴是湄公河三角洲的行政、商业与教育中心，芹苴大学是该市规模最大的大学，这一地位使其与区域内各省政府保持密切联系。

Reputation

• QS placed Can Tho University in the 1401+ band of its 2027 World University Rankings, the joint final band used for institutions outside the individually numbered positions在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，芹苴大学位列 1401+ 区间，这是用于未进入单独编号名次院校的并列末段区间。
• Times Higher Education listed the university in the 2001+ band of its 2027 world ranking, a placement that reflects its teaching-intensive profile and its limited doctoral output泰晤士高等教育在 2027 年世界大学排名中把芹苴列入 2001+ 区间，这一位置反映出其以教学为主、博士产出有限的特点。
• U.S. News ranked CTU 2,116th in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, its highest placement among the four major global rankingsU.S. News 在 2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学榜单中把芹苴列为第 2116 名，这是该校在四大全球排名中的最好位次。
• The university did not enter the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and it does not appear in the ShanghaiRanking subject tables for that year芹苴大学未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，也未出现在该年度的软科一流学科榜单中。
• In the 2026 QS Asia University Rankings, CTU was placed in the 521-540 band, and in the QS Southeast Asia ranking for the same year it was placed joint 90th在 2026 年 QS 亚洲大学排名中，芹苴大学位列 521 至 540 区间，同年 QS 东南亚排名则将其列为并列第 90 名。
• QS ranked CTU in the 351-400 band for agriculture and forestry in its 2026 subject rankings, the university's strongest disciplinary showing and a direct reflection of its founding mission在 2026 年 QS 学科排名中，芹苴大学的农业与林业位列 351 至 400 区间，这是该校最强的学科表现，也直接体现其创校使命。
• The university appears in the 1061-1080 band of the 2026 QS Sustainability Rankings, which assess environmental impact, social inclusion and governance rather than research volume芹苴大学出现在 2026 年 QS 可持续发展排名的 1061 至 1080 区间，该榜单评估环境影响、社会包容与治理，而非科研规模。
• Within Vietnam, CTU is treated as the Mekong Delta's leading university and one of the country's principal agricultural research centres, a role recognised in national planning for the region在越南国内，芹苴大学被视为湄公河三角洲的领军大学和国家主要的农业研究中心之一，这一角色得到国家区域规划的承认。
• Its most prominent honour is the 1993 Ramon Magsaysay Award won by Vo Tong Xuan, and the university has not produced a Nobel laureate or a Fields medallist学校最显赫的荣誉是武重春于 1993 年获得的拉蒙·麦格赛赛奖，该校未产生诺贝尔奖得主或菲尔兹奖得主。
• The university's reputation rests on applied work in rice, aquaculture and climate adaptation rather than on citation-heavy basic science, which explains its modest position in research-weighted global tables芹苴大学的声誉建立在水稻、水产与气候适应等应用研究之上，而非高被引的基础科学，这也解释了它在偏重科研的全球榜单中排名不高的原因。

Student life

• Can Tho University has no formal Latin motto, and its public identity is expressed through its Vietnamese name, its delta mission and the slogan of serving the Mekong Delta's development芹苴大学没有正式的拉丁文校训，其公共形象主要通过越南语校名、三角洲使命以及服务湄公河三角洲发展的口号来表达。
• Most students come from the delta provinces, and dormitory life mixes Kinh, Khmer and Chinese-Vietnamese students in a way that reflects the region's ethnic composition多数学生来自三角洲各省，宿舍生活把京族、高棉族与华族学生混居在一起，反映出该地区的民族构成。
• Vietnamese Teachers' Day on 20 November is the most observed campus festival, when students return to their old schools and present flowers to their teachers11 月 20 日的越南教师节是校园里最受重视的节日，学生在此日返校向老师献花。
• The annual Green Summer volunteer campaign sends student teams to rural communes for canal clearing, health screening and tutoring, a tradition shared with universities across Vietnam一年一度的「绿色夏天」志愿活动派学生团队前往农村公社清淤运河、开展健康筛查与课业辅导，这是越南各大学共有的传统。
• Student organisations run academic clubs, English-speaking groups and sports teams, and the university's physical education department coordinates inter-college competitions学生组织运营学术社团、英语角与运动队，学校体育教研室则协调院际比赛。
• The Hau River waterfront and Ninh Kieu night market give students cheap food, coffee shops and boat trips, and the riverside is where many students spend their evenings后江滨水地带与宁静桥夜市为学生提供平价餐饮、咖啡馆与游船项目，江边是许多学生度过夜晚的去处。
• Floating markets, orchards and canal villages within cycling distance of the campus function as informal classrooms for students in agriculture, fisheries and rural development校园骑车可达的水上市场、果园与运河村落，是农业、渔业与农村发展专业学生的非正式课堂。
• The university hosts a small international student community, with 21 international students recorded in its QS profile, most of them in postgraduate or exchange programmes学校有一个规模不大的国际学生群体，QS 档案记录为 21 名国际学生，多数就读研究生或交换项目。
• Football and volleyball are the most popular recreational sports, played on shared courts in the evenings, while rowing and swimming draw on the delta's rivers and canals足球与排球是最受欢迎的休闲运动，傍晚在共用球场上进行；划船与游泳则依托三角洲的河流与运河。
• The academic year begins in September and ends in June, with a short break at Tet, the Vietnamese lunar new year, when most students return to their home provinces学年从 9 月开始、次年 6 月结束，中间在越南农历新年「春节」放假，多数学生返回家乡省份。

Notable people

• Vo Tong Xuan, a rice scientist who trained at the University of the Philippines Los Baños and Kyushu University, served as CTU's vice-rector from 1982 to 1997 and won the 1993 Ramon Magsaysay Award武重春是曾在菲律宾洛斯巴尼奥斯大学与日本九州大学研修的稻作科学家，1982 至 1997 年任芹苴大学副校长，并于 1993 年获得拉蒙·麦格赛赛奖。
• Ha Thanh Toan, a professor of food technology, served as rector of Can Tho University and led its expansion into English-taught programmes and regional accreditation何青全为食品技术教授，曾任芹苴大学校长，主导学校拓展全英文授课项目与区域认证。
• Tran Trung Tinh serves as a vice-president of the university and has responsibility for academic affairs and quality assurance across the 17 training units陈中静担任芹苴大学副校长，负责 17 个教学单位的学术事务与质量保障。
• Tran Ngoc Hai is a vice-president whose portfolio covers finance, facilities and the university's relations with provincial governments in the delta陈玉海是副校长，分管财务、设施以及学校与三角洲各省政府的关系。
• Nguyen Hieu Trung, also a vice-president, works on research and international cooperation, including the university's climate-change and aquaculture partnerships阮孝忠同为副校长，负责科研与国际合作，包括学校的气候变化与水产养殖合作项目。
• Le Van Lam served as a vice-director of the university and was associated with its academic development and campus planning during the 2010s黎文林曾任学校副校长，在 2010 年代参与学校的学术发展与校园规划。
• Huynh Tan Phat, president of the Provisional Revolutionary Government in 1975, is the political figure under whose administration the college was reorganised as Can Tho University黄晋发是 1975 年越南南方共和临时革命政府主席，学院正是在其执政期间改组为芹苴大学。