The university is financially supported by the Waseda Health Sciences Education Corporation and a number of other Japanese individuals and organisations, with total initial investment of about US$20 million.
It has a campus of 3.2 hectares and plans to recruit 1,200 students a year.
Construction of the university’s first facility block has been completed, including lecture rooms, laboratories and a medical training centre where teaching based on international advances in medical sciences is provided.
Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said she believed that the university would succeed in training medical staff as a way to enhance the quality of healthcare services in Vietnam.
Mari Kusumi, president of University of Human Arts and Sciences, said the university was established to train highly qualified medical staff, who can work at major hospitals in Vietnam and the world.
The university will offer courses in nursing, physical therapy and orthopaedics in 2016 and plans to open two more courses the following year.
The Vietnam Tokyo Human Health Sciences University is the second wholly foreign invested tertiary educational institution to be licensed in Ecopark, after the British University Vietnam.
