Founding of the Bach Khoa Polytechnic University
After Dien Bien Phu and the liberation of Hanoi, the North set out to rebuild its economy and needed engineers of its own. On 6 March 1956 Minister of Education Nguyen Van Huyen signed Decree 147/ND founding the Bach Khoa Polytechnic University; on 4 June 1956 Prime Minister Pham Van Dong approved it in document 2183-PC.
Major General and Professor Tran Dai Nghia became the first Director. On 15 October 1956 the first cohort of about 850 students began classes in 14 disciplines across four faculty groups: Mechanical–Electrical, Mining–Metallurgy, Civil Engineering and Chemistry–Food. The campus rose on the grounds of the former Vietnam Student Hostel in southern Hanoi.
15 October has been the University's founding day ever since — Vietnam's first technical university.

































