Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union,

With a total of more than 18.000 members, the Students Association of Hue University was founded for the following purposes:

- Promoting the schooling and training of the union members and students; helping them complete their tasks in studies and in life, and contribute to the firm development of the university.

- Educating the moral, traditions, life ideology, and law consciousness to the members and students

- Encouraging students to study actively and take part in social activities

- Developing cooperative relations with other students' organisations in the world for the sake of peace, national independence,democracy, and social development.

Clubs

Tutor clubs, dancing clubs, poetry-lover clubs are environments for students to participate in to relax after a day of hard work. They are also activities for students to exchange experience in studies.

Job consulting center

This center is a bridge between students and employers, enterprises, and companies during recruitment period. It is also a place where students can find information on recruitment, necessary knowledge and skills to get a job. Both students and graduates are given consultation and offered useful assistance in finding suitable jobs.

Services

Hue University has 4 dormitories for about 1,600 undergraduate and graduate coming from other provinces. These dormitories also offer rooms for candidates and their parents during their stay in Hue to participate in the entrance exam to the Hue University.

The health care system for officials, teachers and students of the Hue University is arranged as a network, connecting the health care centers at each affiliated college and other medical centers in the province. As for emergency cases, patients will be taken to the College of Medicine Hospital (belonging to Hue University) or to Hue Central Hospital

Library

The Learning Resource Center, an E-library, aims at providing not only modern learning and teaching materials for teachers and students of Hue University, but e-learning platform as well. This is also a center to provide access to and exchange educational programs and information with other colleges in Vietnam or in other countries.

The Learning Resource Center (LRC) is well-equipped with modern and comfortable computers. It includes studying areas as well as reserved rooms for conferences, seminars, and training workshops. In addition, each affiliated college has its own library with different scales to assist students, teachers, and staffs in studying, teaching, and researching.

International students at Hue University

Being assigned by the Ministry of Education and Training, since 2002 Hue University has received Laotian students to enroll their full-time studying in its affiliated colleges. Currently, there are approximately 100 Laotian students studying at Hue University, including those of regular undergraduate training program and those of an collaborative program between Thua Thien Hue province and some Laotian bordering provinces. Moreover, many other Laotian graduate students are attending Masters training courses here. Every year, Hue University holds such activities as: meetings between the board of leaders of Hue University and Laotian students; and many other activities to celebrate the traditional holidays and the National day of Laotian people.

The International Center of Hue University have also welcomed many students from different countries who come here to study, to visit the country and to take part in cultural exchanges with Vietnamese students.

Besides, Hue University also receives foreign students who comes to Hue for internship and for research in the framework of bilateral cooperations with other universities in the world.

Educational Activities

• Holding forums and discussions among students not only to identify their particular needs and aspirations but also to orient them to sound thoughts and actions;

• Keeping students aware of domestic and international political and social events through the information system of the Youth Union;

• Encouraging the development of clubs to offer students opportunities to participate in useful and wholesome activities;

• Organising outdoor activities, training, and practicing skills in community activities.

• Holding contests to help students learn more about the traditions and history of our country, about our Party, Uncle Ho and the tradition of the Communist Youth Union and Students' Association;

• Educating students the responsibility in studying and in social activities as well as setting good examples for students in studying and training by organising talks between historical witnesses and students, and encouraging students to participate in gratitude repaying programs;

• Opening new columns in the college's newsletter about typical examples of the 8 values: patriotism, piousness, respect to teachers, charity, eagerness to study, honesty, disciplinary and economical consciousness;

• Launching competitive campaigns among students in studying and in training;

• Organizing class-level talks and forums on the values and lifestyle of students;

• Promoting good examples as well as criticizing bad habits among students.

Etracurricular activities

Many social, cultural, sporting and other recreational activities are organized to exchange relationships and promote propaganda. Also, these activities aim to introduce typical features of the local culture to other regions all over the country.

Sporting activities help to orient and meet healthy entertainment needs among students. In addition, there are many cultural festivals, Healthy Youth festivities, games, competitions, singing and sporting activities among the affiliated colleges of Hue University, between the colleges and military units or between the colleges and local people living near the college campuses.

Student volunteer movements, environmental protection activities, humanitarian blood donation as well as crime prevention, and drugs and social evils prevention are developed and strengthened. Those activities are carried out together with the development of volunteer works and the establishment of diversified volunteer contingents. Hue University, moreover, promotes volunteer movements among students, organizes the signing of three “NO's” among students and implements programs on school drugs prevention.

Hue University also promotes the care for local needy children, sponsoring children with exceptionally difficult situations to go to school, offering children's bookcases, organizing children playgrounds and frequently visiting, giving presents to and playing with disabled and disadvantaged children. Youth unions, in addition, make plans for mobilizing, assigning union members to participate in "classes for love” at their localities.

The annual summer volunteer student campaigns are organized for very realistic purposes:

• To promte and offer education;

• To give instructions in economic development, hunger alleviation and poverty reduction along with population control and family planning;

• To participate in activities showing gratitude to those who have contributed to the country.

• To offer free check-ups and medicine, to repair houses, to give presents to poor households and elementary pupils with good or rather good studies results.

In addition, the annual program “Fortifying the examinees in university entrance exam seasons” is enthusiastically endorsed by Hue University's students as a means to the successful completion of the entrance exams.