The former Ton Duc Thang University (Ton Duc Thang University: TDTU) is currently known as Ton Duc Thang Private University of Technology, established under the Prime Minister's Decision 787/ TTg-QĐ dated on September 24, 1997. The university was founded and is governed by the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Confederation through the Board of Directors chaired by the incumbent Chairman.

The goal of establishing TDTU in the first phase was to implement the Program 17/TU and the Directive 13 of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee on training, retraining, fostering and enhancing professional levels and skills for the city’s functional labor force. Along with the goals of developing human resources for the needs of industrialization and modernization; contributing to the training of talents and human resources; developing research activities to serve production systems and society in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern provinces.

https://www.tdtu.edu.vn/en