Four Vietnamese universities ranked up in science

Source: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Hanoi (VNA) – Four universities in Vietnam have found a place in a global ranking by science subject released on March 4 by British education company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

They are the Vietnam National University, Hanoi; the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City; the Hanoi University of Science and Technology; and the Can Tho University.

The Vietnam National University, Hanoi had three groups of subjects to be ranked, namely Mathematics (ranked first in Vietnam and debuted at 401-450 in the QS rankings); Physics and Astronomy (ranked first in Vietnam and debuted at 551-600 in the QS rankings); Computer Science & Information Systems (ranked second in Vietnam and debuted at 501-550 in the QS rankings).

The Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City debuted at 551-600 in Computer Science & Information Systems. In this subject, in 2019, the university was recognised by the international academic community with many prestigious titles and awards such as the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO) Awards for ICT Education Awards and the second prize at the open competition “students with information security” in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

The Can Tho University debuted at 251-300 in the QS World University Rankings among Agriculture & Forestry schools, the only Vietnamese entry in the list.

The Hanoi University of Science and Technology leaped 100 places to 351-400 this year among Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing universities, again the only Vietnamese presence in the category.

The four universities are pioneers in innovation and are considered the symbol of intellectual life and education in Vietnam. All encourages innovation in training and research to keep pace with other top universities around the world. 

The QS World University Rankings, first launched in 2004, is an annual publication of university rankings by London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). Being the only international ranking to have received International Ranking Expert Group (IREG) approval, the QS ranking is viewed as one of the three most widely-read university rankings in the world, along with the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings

The QS World University Rankings by Subject ranks schools in 48 subjects based on four criteria: academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per paper, and the H-index which measures the productivity and impacts of published scientific works. This year, 1,368 universities from 158 countries worldwide joined the rankings.

In 2019, the Vietnam National University, Hanoi and the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City were listed among the top 1,000 universities in 82 countries in the 2020 QS World rankings.

The latter was among the 701st - 750th group for the second consecutive year, belonging to the 66 percent of the world’s best universities; while the former remained in the 801st – 1,000th place.

Three US universities – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, and the UK’s University of Oxford held the top positions in the rankings.

The universities were evaluated according to six metrics: academic reputation (40 percent), employer reputation (10 percent), faculty/student ratio (20 percent), citations per faculty (20 percent), international faculty ratio and international student ratio (5 percent each).

The same year, the Vietnam National University, Hanoi, along with the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, and the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City were in the list of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the first time, together with nearly 1,400 other universities.

The Vietnam National University, Hanoi and the Hanoi University of Science and Technology were in the group of universities ranked 801st to 1,000th, while the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City was ranked 1,001th./.