Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages-Information Technology (HUFLIT) was founded on October 26^th, 1994 according to Decision 616/TTg of the Prime Minister on the foundation of the non-state Saigon School of Foreign Languages and Information Technology established in 1992. The degrees granted by HUFLIT are approved in the system of national education. HUFLIT's students have all the rights and duties as students in state universities.

 

By its academic year 2003-2004, HUFLIT had trained nearly four thousand bachelors of arts and science majoring in Foreign Languages (specializing in pedagogy, translation-interpretation, office administration), Information Technology (specializing in information systems, computer networking, telecommunications), Oriental Studies (specializing in Chinese studies, Japanese studies, Korean studies, Vietnamese studies for foreigners), Tourism and Hotel Management, Business Management. From 2004, the university opens International Relations and English (double major) and also prepares to open Thai studies. HUFLIT's graduates are equipped with professional knowledge, communicative skills and two strategic tools which are foreign languages and information technology in order to meet the demand for human resources of the job market at present and in the future.

 

HUFLIT's students are educated in political attitude, ideology and morality, fostered in personal aptitudes and cooperative ability in community through research activities and a variety of literature, sports and art activities. HUFLIT offers gifted students with good learning outcomes the opportunity to develop their expertise. Through its diplomatic activities, HUFLIT has created and will create good conditions and opportunities for the faculty staff, and students to study abroad, participate in seminars and international conferences. 

 

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In the current trend of open door and integration, of regionalization and globalization, every region in the world has stepped in, or will advance into the intellectual civilization and the knowledge-based economy at different speeds and in different ways. In such a background, foreign languages and information technology, besides communication skills, are two vital strategic tools to receive and spread scientific knowledge and technology. Without foreign languages, there will be no international cooperation. Without information technology, we cannot "hold hands to make a big circle". Without information technology, we can neither shorten the time nor narrow the vast distance in this race with both cooperation and fierce competition.

Foreseeing this inevitable prospect, HUFLIT founders have decided to hand these two strategic tools to the younger generation and search for effective ways to utilize them to convey professional knowledge to the students following the tendency of diversifying majors and training fields together with the growth of the teaching staff whose professional skills and knowledge have been continuously upgraded either in Viet Nam or in the other countries. Our teachers' great efforts and responsibility for HUFLIT's youths and the expansion of international cooperation have helped HUFLIT develop firmly, though very modestly still carrying HUFLIT's impression.                After the first stage striving hard for building and increasing a qualified teaching staff, expanding the campus and equipping with more facilities, HUFLIT is concentrating on the new crucial tasks. From now to 2010, our will and energy is especially saved for improving the curriculum, the content of the courses as well as the teaching and learning methods with the awareness of regularly improving managerial skills and updating knowledge, enhancing the active guiding role of the teachers, encouraging self-study among both teachers and students, and encouraging the students to find effective learning methods for themselves, i.e. individualizing self-study. HUFLIT believes in its own orientation which was experienced with the quintessence of education of other universities in Viet Nam and in foreign countries strictly applied at the same time to adjust ourselves cautiously with the aim of carrying out our immutable ambition: providing Ho Chi Minh City, the southern provinces and the country with  future owners who are rich in knowledge, dynamic, creative, passionate for study in their lifetime, take the initiative to enrich themselves and the country for the cause of "making the people prosperous, the nation powerful, and the society fair, democratic, and civilized".   On our way of development, HUFLIT desire to have more international cooperation on the basic of equality, bilateral benefits, and readiness to listen to pedagogic feedback from the others modestly, open-heartedly, and respectfully in order to gradually improve the curriculums, the content of the courses, the teaching and learning methods, and even the managerial skills, enhancing our national indentity, academic and modern characteristics, multilateral co_ordination and international integration.