A Ho Chi Minh City university has had three training programs certified by a Southeast Asian university association, the school said recently.

At a ceremony organized in the southern commercial hub last week, Dr. Ho Thanh Phong, president of the Ho Chi Minh City International University, announced that the ASEAN University Network (AUN) had accredited the computer science, biotechnology, and business administration majors his school is offering.

They scored 4.6, 4.7, and 4.8 respectively on a 7-point scale of the AUN Quality Assurance, a standard system established in 1998 to assess member universities’ education quality, Dr. Phong said, adding four is the threshold.

Early this month the university also had another program, electronics-telecommunications, endorsed under a joint initiative by the network and the German Academic Exchange Service, which aims to promote international cooperation between Southeast Asian universities and European counterparts.

AUN had earlier certified four other disciplines, including IT offered by the Ho Chi Minh City University of Science, manufacturing engineering and electronics-telecommunications run by the HCMC University of Technology, and Vietnamese studies at the HCMC University of Social Sciences and Humanities.