In the past year, VNU's training quality continued to be highly appreciated by society. According to the prestigious world ranking organizations such as Times Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), VNU was continuously the best university in Vietnam, ranked among the top 1,000 universities globally. VNU also maintained the increase in its ranked fields and enhanced scores in the Academic Reputation and Employer Reputation indexes.
In 2023, VNU featured in Group 401-600 globally with a big jump in the Quality Education Goal, ranked 70th in the THE Impact Rankings against the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
According to QS Asia University Rankings 2024, VNU was ranked 187th, featuring among the top of 22% Asia's leading higher education institutions. According to the QS AUR 2024 results, VNU has made steady progress in Employer Reputation, ranked 131st in Asia (with 34.2 points). This shows VNU’s increasing training quality, which is highly appreciated by both domestic and international labour markets. In addition to the increase in Employer Reputation, VNU maintained its strength in International research network (ranked 89th in Asia with 71.9 points) and Academic Reputation (ranked 147th in Asia with 27.7 points).
In 2023, VNU featured in Group 351-400 leading universities in Asia by THE. Among the 6 ranked Vietnamese higher education institutions, VNU was the highest rated in the Teaching index (learning environment with 21.7 points).
In October, 2023, THE announced the results of the THE World University Rankings 2024 by subject. Accordingly, VNU was ranked in 8 out of the 11 ranked subject areas with an increase of two subjects compared to the 2023 ranking. Specifically, ranked for the first time, VNU’s Education was placed in Group 401 - 500 globally; Clinical and Health was placed in Group 601 - 800 globally. Besides, VNU maintained its 6 previously ranked subjects, namely Social Sciences (Group 501–600 globally); Business and Economics (Group 601 – 800 globally); Life Sciences (Group 801–1000 globally); Computer Sciences (Group 801-1000 globally); Engineering (Group 801-1000 globally); and Physical Sciences (Group 801-1000 globally).
In March 2023, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023 (QS WUR by subject 2023), VNU maintained the same positions of its 6 key disciplines ranked by QS as in 2022. In addition, VNU’s Engineering & Technology and Natural Sciences continued to be ranked by QS with the latter ranked No. 1 in Vietnam. Among VNU’s six disciplines ranked by the QS WUR 2023, Computer Science & Information Systems remained in Group 501-550 globally and Mathematics in Group 351-400 globally; Physics & Astronomy and Business & Management Studies maintained their top positions in Vietnam.
According to Cybermetrics Labs (under the Spanish National Research Council) second Webometrics rankings of 2023, VNU ranked 671st among the world’s top 700 universities, up 87 places compared to the 2022 ranking. VNU maintained its top position among the ranked Vietnamese higher education institutions, placed 167th in Asia and 12th in Southeast Asia.