Tuymen State University (Russia) - An option for Vietnamese students

Tuymen State University is the first university in Tyumen Oblast, founded in 1930. It is one of the largest universities in the Siberian region of the Russian Federation, training specialists in both technical and humanitarian fields, cooperating with universities and research institutes around the world.

“Chumgu University (Tюмгу - in Russian, the abbreviation of Tuymen State University) focuses a lot on investing in students and has new programs such as teaching in English, focusing on practice. Therefore, after researching, I decided to go to Chumgu University” - this is the feeling of student Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, a boy from Hue about Tuymen State University, where Tuan is studying at the Preparatory Training Department, to be equipped with Russian knowledge for his 4-year journey to study tourism at the school.

Tuan is one of 18 Vietnamese students who have just started studying here since March 2021. The new school year started in October 2020, but due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, students cannot go to school and have to temporarily study online. However, Tuan said that he and all his friends are quickly adapting to life and studying in the new environment.

“The reserve teachers have all taught foreign students, especially Vietnamese students, who they really like, so it was easy for us to learn. We talked and communicated with the teachers a lot over the internet before coming here, so it was easy for us to adapt,” Tuan shared.

Like Tuan, female student Nguyen Binh Tam Nguyen - from Da Nang city, has completed her first year of university in the country and with her academic results, she won a scholarship to study abroad at Tuymen National University, majoring in tourism. Nguyen said that they had been familiar with Russian at home, so coming here was not too surprising compared to previous courses. However, to have enough Russian to study specialized subjects, Nguyen still had to make a lot of effort: "I think it was a bit difficult because we did not have much contact with the locals and were not familiar with Russian pronunciation. When we came here, we tried to get used to it, life here is fine. We also studied many subjects to prepare for the first year, in addition to Russian."

As Vietnamese students feel, the school's teachers have a lot of experience in teaching, helping foreign students quickly adapt to studying. Ms. Natalia, a lecturer at the Preparatory Training Department, said: “We basically use communicative methods to teach students to speak freely with Russians. When we first started teaching online, of course there were some difficulties, but then the students opened up. And when they arrived, they were not afraid of communicating in Russia in the field of life, in the dormitory, in the store, in the bank, with us - the teachers, with everyone....".

The 18 new Vietnamese students are the 5th or 6th batch to study at Tuymen National University and are also the largest. The first batch consisted of only 2 students, the seniors introduced the juniors, and now there are a total of 36 students studying in various courses, majoring in many fields such as international relations, tourism, psychology, computer security, mathematics, pedagogy, geography, literature, language, sociology...

For final year students with excellent academic achievements such as Nguyen Quang Hai - majoring in Mathematics, Tong Quoc Cuong - majoring in Law, Deputy Head of the Vietnamese Student Unit in Tuymen, this place is still trusted and loved by them to register for Master's studies. Among them, Nguyen Quang Hai is a prominent and proud face in the Vietnamese student community in Tuymen.

Hai has just received the award “Top 100 best students of Tuymen 2021”. In 2020, he won First Prize in the “International Student 2020” contest of Tyumen province, received a certificate of merit from the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, in addition to a long list of awards and scholarships that he has achieved over the past nearly 5 years.

Not only actively studying, the first batch of Vietnamese students coming to Tuymen like Hai and Cuong also pioneered in establishing the Youth Union, organizing cultural and sports activities, actively participating in volunteer activities of the school, the International Student Association at the school, and student clubs. The efforts of Vietnamese students at Tuymen National University were recognized and highly appreciated by the school's leaders.

“Vietnamese students are very active in various exchange activities, not only cultural, but also scientific. We regularly participate in educational exhibitions, attracting students in this direction and expect the number to increase every year. We have the most positive feelings when working with Vietnamese students,” said Ms. Ekaterina Sechenova, Vice Rector for International Relations.

Tyumen State University currently offers 175 fields of study, in various forms such as full-time, part-time, undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced training... The university has a total of 15 buildings located in the historical part of the city, with 15 training and research institutes, including the Institute of Distance Education and the Regional Institute of International Cooperation. In addition, the university has branches in the cities of Tobolsk, Ishim, Nizhnevartovsk, Surgut, Novy Urengoy. The university has 5-6 dormitories in the city center, with full facilities for students.

In addition to training, the school also focuses on urgent and global research tasks such as climate change, energy, and biosafety. Tuymen State University has many cooperation programs with training institutions and research institutes in many countries around the world, including Vietnam. For many years, the school has had joint projects and scientific research works with the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center in Hanoi.

According to VOV