GD&TD – The Ministry of Education and Training provides guidance on implementing university and college admissions in 2025, noting the important timepoints.
All candidates (including those eligible for direct admission) must register for admission online
| TT | Content of implementation | Organizing body / Responsible individual | Completion time |
| 1 | Practice registration and adjustment of admission preferences on the System | Candidates | July 15, 2025 |
| 2 | Review, correct errors, confirm candidates’ priority-status information (documentation) | Candidates Reception points | Concurrently with candidates’ registration for the high-school graduation exam/admission application |
| 3 | Update preliminary-screening results; independent test, supplementary, competency-assessment, reasoning-assessment results; foreign-language certificates… (if any) | Training institutions | 17:00 July 28, 2025 |
| 4 | Trial run and training on processing admission preferences | Department of Higher Education Department of Continuing Education and Vocational Education Department of Science, Technology and Innovation | August 10, 2025 |
| 5 | Provide online support for candidates’ admission registration – Phase 1 | Training institutions Departments of Education and Training Reception points Candidates | From the date candidates register for the high-school graduation exam until August 30, 2025 |
| DIRECT ADMISSIONS | |||
| 1 | Submit direct-admission and priority-admission dossiers to the training institutions | Candidates Training institutions | 17:00 June 30, 2025 |
| 2 | Conduct direct admissions and notify candidates of results; update the list of directly admitted candidates on the System | Training institutions | July 15, 2025 |
| III | REGISTER FOR ADMISSION ON THE SYSTEM | ||
| 1 | Issue additional accounts to candidates (high-school or secondary-school graduates) without a System account | Departments of Education and Training Candidates | From July 10 to July 20, 2025 |
| 2 | Register and adjust admission preferences (unlimited times) within the prescribed period | Candidates | From July 16 to 17:00 July 28, 2025 |
| 3 | Announce input-quality thresholds for teacher-training and health-training programs requiring professional practice licences | Ministry of Education and Training | July 21, 2025 |
| 4 | Adjust and publish application-receiving scores and converted equivalent admission scores on the System and training-institution websites | Training institutions | 17:00 July 23, 2025 |
| 5 | Pay admission-registration fees online | Candidates; Department of Science, Technology and Innovation; coordinating units for System fee collection | From July 29 to 17:00 August 5, 2025 |
| 6 | Review data | Department of Higher Education; Department of Continuing Education and Vocational Education; Department of Science, Technology and Innovation; Department of Quality Management | From August 6 to 17:00 August 12, 2025 |
| IV | ADMISSION AND PROCESSING OF PREFERENCES ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL PLAN | ||
| 1 | Download data and admission information; high-school graduation scores; high-school academic records on the System; other exam scores… (if any) – Organize admissions. | Training institutions | From August 13 to 17:00 August 20, 2025 |
| 2 | Process preferences on the System to determine the highest eligible preference for each candidate | Department of Higher Education Department of Continuing Education and Vocational Education; Department of Science, Technology and Innovation | |
| V | ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS AND CONFIRMATION OF ENROLLMENT | ||
| 1 | Announce the list of candidates admitted in Phase 1 | Training institutions | 17:00 August 22, 2025 |
| 2 | Confirm online enrollment for Phase 1 on the System. | Candidates | 17:00 August 30, 2025 |
| VI | ORGANIZE ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION AND ADMISSIONS | ||
| 1 | Announce additional-admissions period | Training institutions | From September 1, 2025 |
| 2 | Conduct subsequent admission rounds and update the list of admitted and enrolled candidates as required | Training institutions | From September to December 2025 |
| VII | REPORT ADMISSION RESULTS | ||
| 1 | Report the 2025 admissions results | Training institutions | December 31, 2025 |
Source: According to Minh Phong, giaoducthoidai.vn
