One of the key issues of higher education is the responsibility to stakeholders, both inside the university, including lecturer and staff team, students, etc., and members of the outside as parents, businesses and broader is the responsibility to the community.

Contributing to equality in education and happiness of all individuals

HCMCOU’s core values ​​are serving the community's interests in training, research, and other activities in University; Efforts were made to develop training methods that are diverse and flexible for both space and time, suitable for learners with different knowledge backgrounds and learning conditions; Committed to developing a professional team with the ability to carry out training and research work with the highest efficiency. The School encourages creative thinking with the spirit of innovating ways of thinking and doing, turning challenges into opportunities. In addition, creating and maintaining a friendly working and learning environment with a cooperative attitude and mutual respect to achieve the same goals. At the same time, nurturing and encouraging both lecturers and students, the essential attitudes for the sustainable and good development of individuals and society, and thereby multiplying these attitudes and values to the whole community.

Social responsibility is known with three basic contents, which are: Relationship among people living together, tolerant cooperation with each other in society; The engagement between the individual and the community; Having the responsibility to contribute to the protection and sustainable development of society, expressed in three levels of nature, voluntary and obligatory. HCMCOU aims to fulfill its social responsibility for the benefit of the community with free courses, volunteer activities at the Spring Volunteer campaign, Green Summer, blood donation, etc. At the same time, maintaining the culture, enhancing the values of the University as well as a good working and learning environment that attracts learners and good lecturers and employees.

Improve and Contribute to Environmental Restoration

 Right from the first years of establishment, the leadership of Ho Chi Minh City Open University has determined that the important task is to build each individual in the university to have sufficient quality, ability to live and work, and a sense of responsibility themselves, living environment, and society. Under the roof of HCMCOU, students have access to flexible and professional training methods, scientific research, and community service activities that are always interested and invested in by the school's management board. With the desire to provide quality, talented and virtuous human resources for the society, from the generation of lecturers, staffs, and students, the University always strives to promote tolerance and kindness, a sense of personal responsibility, humanity towards the surrounding living environment, and a sense of responsibility for connecting the community, building a harmonious, civilized and sustainable society

Carrying out the mission of building and spreading awareness in the student community in particular and the society in general, the University creates a lot of practical values for students, lecturers, and school officials when participating in various events, environmental protection, and sustainable development. Specifically, a series of actions with the desire to fight climate change, protect biodiversity, reduce waste, etc. At the same time, the school continues to coordinate with organizations and units in and outside the school to carry out propaganda, advocacy, and propose ideas and solutions that contribute to change people's consciousness and landscapes in the school and living environment.

Practical commitment to society and the environment

More than ever, the social and environmental challenges facing people today have been recognized. It is time to take more drastic action to spread the goals and development orientation of HCMCOU to the School's Board of Directors, Lecturers, Officials, employees, and learners. That is the mission "Contributing and improving knowledge to the community by the most flexible and convenient methods". The common goal is to make HCMCOU “become a leading multidisciplinary public university in Vietnam with application orientation, knowledge dissemination, and community engagement; in which distance learning activities develop on a par with Southeast Asia". And jointly implement the school's core values ​​of expanding knowledge; connecting practices, serving the community; Professional, efficient, creative, and friendly.