eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2021-04-27 9 4 222 228 10.12691/education-9-4-11 EDUCATION20219411 article Trinh Thi Thu trinhthutn@gmail.com 1 Center of Foreign Languages and Computer Science, Hoa Binh University, No 8, Bui Xuan Phai Street, My Dinh 2 Ward, South Tu Liem District, Ha Noi, Vietnam Higher education in Vietnam has applied credit system since 2007. Universities have been developing academic credit system for many years. In fact, along with the change in academic policy, changing the management environment driven by IT is currently a great concern of universities in Vietnam. This paper is conducting a brief review on issues and problems related to academic credit in the higher education in Vietnam, and in term of solving these issues and problems, is proposing the most common model for IT system for academic credit system at universities in Vietnam. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/9/4/11/education-9-4-11.pdf academic credit system IT in higher education IT platform Academic credit system in higher education IT approach for credit system in higher education