1981, the postgraduate training in HCMUT has been geared towards a specialised group of students. According to decision 16/CP by the Prime Minister on 17 January 1995, the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) was founded. The Ho Chi Minh University of Technology became one of the 9 members of VNU-HCM and was renamed the University of Engineering. According to decision 15/2001/QĐ-TTg and decision 16/2001/QĐ-TTg by The Prime Minister on 2 December 2001, the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City was reorganised with only 3 members; and the University of Engineering gained back its traditional name as Ho Chi Minh University of Technology. Infrastructure There are 2 campuses: one is located within the center area of Ho Chi Minh City and the other in the outskirts of the municipality. The former campus one, 14 hectares, has the address of 268 Lý Thường Kiệt St, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City. The campus has 117 classrooms (14,479 m2), 96 laboratories (12,197 m2), 3 workshops (6,950 m2), and 1 library (1,145 m2 – for both undergraduate and graduate student). The latter one, 26 ha of area, is located in Linh Trung Ward, Thủ Đức, Ho Chi Minh City. The campus has 3 buildings which consist of 54 classrooms and halls, 26 laboratories, and a covered stadium. Furthermore, HCMUT also has an inner city 1.4 ha dormitory. With expenditures of 101 billion VND, the dormitory was rebuilt in 2004 and was put into operation in 2009. The event between 2001 and 2005 is that, with the self-funded budget (from tuition fees, science research, and technology transfer and other training activities), HCMUT focused on rebuilding an area of 26,128 m2 (40% rise compared to that of 1995), upgrading classrooms, laboratories, library, of which total area is 7,670 m2 (increases 50% in comparison to that of 1995), invested in equipment for training activities. All classrooms are equipped with projectors, computers, and laboratories with modern tools for training and science research (worth 80 billion VND). At HCMUT, a number of teaching and learning materials in various fields are available almost all of the time. Among them, 55% (509 magazines) are written by HCMUT professors. There are 277 magazines (191 of them are in foreign languages and the rest is in Vietnamese), 9,460 magazines with more than 36,555 books, 30 computers for internet access, and other types of materials such as scientific magazines in