Nhan Dan - More than 2.1 million students nationwide have applied for the 2009 university and college entrance examinations which will take place from July 4-5 (phase I), July 9-10 (phase II) and July 15-16 (phase III), a decrease of 3% in comparison with 2008.

This year, the number of students registering for universities is 1,565,286 (73,5%) and for colleges is 560,689 (26.5%).

The majority of students have applied to take university entrance exams in group A with three subjects of mathematics, physics and chemistry (52% of the total applications) compared to group B with mathematics, chemistry and biology (20%), group D with literature, mathematics and foreign language (15%), group C with literature, history and geography (8%) and others (5%).

Universities of medicine, pharmaceutics and economics received the most applications. The Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutics under of the University of Da Nang, the Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmaceutics are among universities with high competition ratio of 1/33,4 and 1/21 respectively.   

On July 4, the entrance examinations will start with groups A and V. The second stage of the entrance exams will be held on July 9-10 with B, C, D and aptitude groups. The college entrance exams will take place on July 15-16 with group A, B, C and D.

Today, the examinees applying for group A and V will complete their final procedures at the exam venues.