Located on 103 hectares in Tan Duc Educational City, some 12km from HCM City, the new private TTU is unique among Vietnamese universities because it is based on an American model and has a non-profit status.

TTU has been invested in and developed by Tan Tao Group, a leading diversified conglomerate encompassing industrial parks and infrastructure development that includes thermal power plants, renewable energy and water treatment plants, and media technology. 

Teaching and studying at TTU will be conducted in English.

Students will study at the TTU campus for three years and the fourth year at a well-known university in the US, according to the Government's website.

The PM has also appointed the Ministry of Education and Training to inspect TTU's necessary facilities before it is allowed to open any faculty and enroll students in various fields of study.

According to the plan, TTU will have nine schools, with schools of Business and Economics, Engineering, and Computer Science and Humanities and Languages to be established in the first year of operation.