Historical mission

Hueic College: The Cradle of Talented Generals

Founded in 1899, Hue Industrial College bears the mission of training high-quality human resources in the technical field to serve the cause of the country’s industrialization and modernization.

Quality of Human Resources

Born in a land rich in revolutionary tradition, Hue Industrial College (formerly known as Hue Practical Industry School – Ecole Pratique D’Industrie de Hué) has risen in step with the revolutionary process. Tens of thousands of the school’s elite individuals remained loyal to the Party, matured into high leadership positions, and contributed significantly to the resistance. Thousands of scientific and technical officers, passionate and dedicated to their profession and nurtured through a teaching process guided by the motto “Practical Learning – Practical Career,” have contributed greatly to the work of national construction.

With 120 years of construction and development, Hue Industrial College has trained many elite individuals for the Party and the people. Generations of teachers and students have followed one another to write a glorious tradition in human resource training, which has been recognized by society and awarded many noble distinctions by the Party and State: 02 First-class Independence Orders (1999, 2004), 01 First-class Labor Order (2014), 01 Second-class Labor Order (1994), and 01 Third-class Labor Order (1989).

Where Talented Generals Are Nurtured

In 1926, the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League was formed. The Communist Party cell of the school was established early on in 1930. Along with this, mass revolutionary organizations were born at the school: In 1936, the Hue Industrial Alumni Friendship Association was founded; in 1938, the Democratic Youth Union; in 1939, the Anti-Imperialist Youth Union; and in 1941, the National Salvation Youth Union.

The revolutionary movement among students was vibrant, forging the spirit and resilient will of the youth at that time. That was the start of the revolutionary careers of many talented generals who were alumni of the school during the 1935–1950 period, notably Colonel Generals: Tran Van Tra, Tran Sam, Hoang Van Thai; Lieutenant Generals: Le Van Tri, Nguyen Hoa; and Major Generals: Ho Tu Nam, Dao Quang Cat, Tran Chi Cuong, Le Van Ba, Nguyen Thuan.

According to Major General Ho Tu Nam (alumnus of the 1940–1943 class), the tradition of Hue Industrial College can be sketched out in three main points: First, comprehensive training, excellent skills, and a good industrial working style; Second, political steadfastness, loyalty to the Fatherland and the revolution; Third, camaraderie, mutual affection, and complete sentiment.

With all his heart for the School, Major General Ho Tu Nam wrote: “All my life, I keep a secret in my heart: pride and attachment to the traditions of the beloved Hue Industrial School.”

Colonel General Tran Sam (alumnus of the 1935–1938 class) recounted: “The days of struggle and welcoming the Godart mission wrote a heroic page in the history of the Hue Industrial students’ struggle movement. Those days left a deep impression on me and influenced my revolutionary fighting spirit forever after.”

Maintaining Brand and Reputation

In 2005, the School was upgraded to a College, offering college and professional intermediate training. With a vision to 2025, it strives to become an advanced, internationally integrated training institution meeting the requirements of national industrialization and modernization, and to become a center for research and transfer of science, technology, and engineering to serve the development requirements of Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Since then, the school has been carrying out the mission of building a friendly, humanistic learning and working environment within the knowledge economy; applying advanced technology in teaching and learning; creating opportunities for learners to engage in lifelong self-learning; and supplying educational services that meet the increasingly high demands for human resources in society, ensuring the sustainable development of the School.

To date, the School possesses a team of highly qualified, skilled, and dedicated lecturers. Over the years, besides utilizing resources from domestic and foreign projects to improve lecturer capacity and qualifications serving directly for vocational training—such as the KOSEN project in building technical majors to develop high-quality human resources, and the USAID COMMET project to improve lecturer capacity through advanced training methods—Hue Industrial College has also determined that training must be linked to the requirements of enterprises.

Accordingly, the School has promoted training cooperation activities with enterprises, bringing enterprises into the School, and increasing the deployment of students to internships at production facilities both domestically and abroad; these students are paid internship costs and salaries by the enterprises.

Through this, training products gradually meet the needs of enterprises. The school has also proactively invited a number of reputable local businesses to participate in building the curriculum, grading graduation theses, teaching certain modules, or presenting thematic topics suitable to their capabilities.

Along with equipping good vocational skills, soft skills, occupational safety, IT, and foreign languages are mandatory conditions for students upon graduation. Therefore, with the equipped knowledge and skills, students have shortened the gap between the theory of the School and the reality at enterprises. Thanks to that, every year, the school supplies society with thousands of bachelors and skilled workers who are highly rated by recruitment units for their work capacity, vocational skills, and ethics, helping young people quickly build their careers and dreams.