Ho Chi Minh City University of Pedagogy (HCMUP, Vietnamese: Trường Đại học Sư phạm Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), or Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, is a university specializing in tertiary-level training of teachers and lecturers located in District 5. HCMUP is one of fourteen leading national universities of Vietnam and one of the two largest pedagogical universities, playing a leading role in teacher and lecturer training.