The School of Management and Business at Hanoi National University is applying height restrictions as part of its admissions process. Female students should be at least 158 cm tall and male students should be 165 cm tall according to the policy.
“In addition to factors of academic ability and skills, physical fitness also plays an important role in building the professional and confident image of leaders,” a spokesperson for the school said explaining the requirement.
The school also goes on to note that it has been assessed by the European non-profit education-accreditation organisation ACQUIN and accredited. However, it is worth noting that ACQUIN’s assessment labels the school’s admissions process as only ‘partially’ fulfilling ACQUIN’s requirements and there is no reference to specific enrollment criteria, only the process more generally.
Of note, local businesses have been struggling to keep up with their foreign counterparts for some time. The share of Vietnam’s exports belonging to foreign invested enterprises, for example, is around 70 percent. This revelation from the School of Management and Business may shed some light on why that is.