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In just over a year, Thai Nguyen University - the largest regional university in the country has transformed strongly to become a model of digital transformation in Vietnamese higher education. Digital house at Thai Nguyen University. Building a digital house for more than 120,000 students of Thai Nguyen University November 20, 2025 became a special milestone for Thai Nguyen University when the school launched the S-TNU application, a digital student platform that unifies all academics, administration and life. Dr. Nguyen Hong Lien, Deputy Director of Thai Nguyen University, said: S-TNU is the only digital student portal, where each student is connected throughout the university, from study to all aspects of life. Thanks to S-TNU, all learning activities such as viewing timetables, registering for courses, tracking progress, and providing feedback are unified on a single application, instead of a fragmented experience like before. This is an important step to build synchronization in a regional university with dozens of member units. What is more worth mentioning is the long-term vision that Thai Nguyen University has for S-TNU. According to Dr. Lien, the school not only wants to provide utilities but wants to expand the application of artificial intelligence to support personalized learning, capacity assessment and career consulting, and fully integrate services from tuition, scholarships to employment. This puts students at the true center of the digital education ecosystem. On the first day of launch, thousands of students logged in and sent positive feedback. S-TNU not only digitizes but also redefines the way students interact with the university. It creates a digital home where children can learn, live, reflect, connect and develop comprehensively in the same transparent environment. As the largest regional university in Vietnam, Thai Nguyen University faces no small challenges. Nearly 4,000 faculty members and more than 120,000 students are distributed across many member schools, causing data to be fragmented, administrative processes to operate slowly, and decision-making to lack a comprehensive database. Another challenge is that digital capabilities are not equal across units and between groups of lecturers. The moment that marked the strongest transformation was the day the TNU-ID platform began to operate synchronously. Dr. Lien shared: When the system handled the entire process of digital signing, circulating and approving documents on the first day, many teachers said they never imagined the work could be so fast, without needing a piece of paper. Pioneers and foundation builders There is no successful digital transformation without leadership vision and collective consensus. At Thai Nguyen University, the leadership of Associate Professor, Dr. Hoang Van Hung plays a decisive role. Dr. Nguyen Hong Lien emphasized: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hoang Van Hung has set a clear destination, creating a common guideline for the entire system, avoiding fragmentation and locality. The goal of bringing the school into the top 500 in Asia by 2035 is not just a slogan but a fulcrum for all digital transformation plans, from standardizing data, building digital platforms, changing processes to training digital capabilities for the team. The choice of Viettel as a technology partner is also part of that strategic calculation. According to Dr. Lien, Thai Nguyen University chose Viettel because this group converges technological capacity, strategic vision and the ability to deploy on a large scale - three factors that a regional university like TNT especially needs. Viettel not only provides network infrastructure, data centers, information security and educational platforms, but also has experience implementing large-scale digital transformation projects, similar to the two-level university model. Choosing the right consulting partner and implementing digital transformation will help increase the likelihood of success. What creates the greatest trust is Viettels working style. Dr. Lien said: Viettel not only transfers technology but accompanies in thinking, in implementation methods, supports data standardization, human resource training and adjusts each operation to suit the characteristics of member schools. The spirit of tailor-made solutions and work to the end to get results makes Viettel an irreplaceable partner in the digital transformation journey of Thai Nguyen University. Thanks to the close coordination between the two parties, a series of platforms are deployed synchronously, from TNU-ID to S-TNU, from digital infrastructure to smart classrooms. This is not a cooperation in providing technology solutions but a process of creating a new digital university model for the entire Northern midland and mountainous region. Regional digital university model Up to now, Thai Nguyen University has successfully deployed 10 core systems in the first phase of the digital university strategy. The two pillar platforms TNU-ID and S-TNU create a new operating framework, where data is centrally managed, processes are digitized and all student interactions take place in a single digital environment. Lecturers minimize administrative time, students enjoy fast - accurate - transparent services and university leaders operate based on data analysis. However, this is just the beginning. According to Dr. Lien, Thai Nguyen University aims to completely perfect the digital university model on three operating pillarsdigital technology, digital training and digital services. The school continues to expand TNU-ID to achieve 100% digitization of administrative processes, develop a digital learning ecosystem with smart classrooms and standardized learning materials, and turn S-TNU into a comprehensive learning and life assistant for each student.Dr. Lien envisions the future of Thai Nguyen University as an open university, where students only need a phone to study, register for courses, receive support and track the entir
