HANOI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam has some 200,000 university graduates who are unemployed, the country's education minister said Wednesday at the ongoing session of the National Assembly.

The unemployment rate among Vietnamese university graduates is not too high, Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha told legislators, adding that Vietnam currently has over 5 million employees aged 60 or less with university degree.

Among 300 Vietnamese universities, only five are Top 400 in Asia, and two in Top 1,000 in the world, he said.

According to the minister, Vietnam's tertiary education is still weak, mainly due to impropriate syllabuses and training courses, and insufficient infrastructure and finance.

The number of Vietnamese graduate students annually going abroad for study is very high, and their families spend some 3 to 4 billion U.S. dollars on their studies each year, he said.

Last year, the Ministry of Education and Training considered a plan on training 7,500 university and college lecturers so that they will get doctoral degree by 2025 or later. The ministry wanted to increase the rate of lecturers with doctoral degree to 35 percent by 2025 from 22.7 percent in 2017.