A report of the Ministry of Science and Technology shows that Vietnam has 24,300 PhDs and 101,000 holders of master’s degrees. The figures represent an increase of 7 percent and 14 percent, respectively, compared with 1996.
Dr. Pham Bich San, deputy secretary general of the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA), said that while Vietnam has the highest number of PhDs and professors, no Vietnamese school is listed among the world’s top 500 universities.
In the latest news, Vietnam was listed itself among the 10 countries which have the highest number of engineers in the world, with 100,390 engineers produced every year.(…)
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