Hanoi (VNA) - The placingof Vietnamese universities in prestigious globalrankings has continually been on the risein recent times despite the country’s much shorterhistory in terms of higher education.

On a list of 10,000 universities in Asia fromthe Quacquarelli Symonds Education Organisation (QS) were seven from Vietnam in2018, eight in 2020, and 11 in 2021.

The top 500 in Asia in 2018 saw the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (HNU), the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM), the Hanoi University of Science and Technology(HUST), Can Tho University, Hue University, and the University of Da Nang. Ton DucThang University and Duy Tan University were also added to the top 500 in 2019 and 2020,respectively.

This year, three more Vietnamese universities were named among the 634 best higher educationinstitutions in Asia by QS: the Hanoi Pedagogical University, the Industrial Universityof Ho Chi Minh City, and the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City.

The QS 2020 rankings by field have four Vietnamese universities in the global top600: HUST, HNU, VNUHCM, and Can Tho University. VNUHCM andCan Tho University appeared in the rankings for the first time.

The major of computer science and information systems at VNUHCM ranked in the 551-600group globally. Can Tho University’s agriculture and forestry majors were in thetop 251-300, while HNU saw the majors of maths, physics, astronomy, and computerscience and information systems ranked.

HUST had four groups of majors in the top 400 and 500, including electricalengineering - electronics, mechanical engineering, aviation and manufacturing, computer scienceand information systems, and mathematics. Among them, all threemajors in the fields of engineering and information technology increased between50 and 100 places compared to 2019’s rankings and remained at the top in Vietnam.

With mathematics, this was also the first time Vietnam had two universities in the global top 500.

The QS 2020 rankings also put HNU and VNUHCM in the group of the 1,000 best universitiesin the world.

Vietnam had 172 higher education institutions in the Webometrics rankings (2020version) from Cybermetrics Labs under the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC),released in January 2020, or 38 more than in 2019.

For the first time, Vietnam had three universities ranked in the prestigious Times Higher Education World UniversityRankings 2019: HUST, HNU, and VNUHCM.

It also had 12 universities in the University Rankingsby Academic Achievement (URAP) in 2020, an increase of four compared to the previousyear./.