For the first time, Vietnam has a university in the TOP 700 in the world
(VTC News) – US News has just announced the list of the world’s top universities in 2020, and Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU) is ranked 623rd in the world and No 1 in Vietnam.
TDTU is the only university in Vietnam in the top 700 of the US News ranking board.
Especially in Engineering major, TDTU is ranked 260th in the world – the highest-ranking board of majors up to now.
This year, there are 4 universities in Vietnam being ranked by US News. Apart from TDTU, Vietnam National University, Hanoi is ranked 949th, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City is ranked 1271th, and Hanoi University of Science and Technology is ranked 1356th.
In ASEAN, Chulalongkorn University and Mahidol University in Thailand are ranked 516th, and 511th, respectively, University Malaya in Malaysia is ranked 205th.
Ton Duc Thang University 13 years ago already set a goal that the school would be in TOP 500 internationally (similar to Chulalongkorn University in Thailand) within 30 years. US News ranking board is proof of school’s achievement over 23 years of developing in an autonomous university path, without using the government budget.
Chulalongkorn University was an inspiration for university leaders to set a goal. Therefore, after 13 years of being in the direction track and govern excellently, with steadfast autonomy, TDTU has come very close to the position of Chulalongkorn University.
US News is the prestige ranking board in America, with a system of many charts. Moreover, US News is considered to be the most prestigious ranking board of America about the academic aspect and the excellent universities’ ranking, and worth being to choose.
Each year, US News chooses only 1500 of the best universities in the world out of a total of 30000 schools in order to introduce to American and global learners about which schools to attend, for their benefit and future.
US News is a Balance board (according to comparison) and belongs to the most objective one. It doesn’t have a very bias toward either the academic aspect like ARWU or to the objectively survey Reputation (reputation rating) like QS or THE. All of the data and information are collected by US News.
The ranking criteria include the diversity of academic fields of the university such as academic reputation internationally and regionally, seminars, publish books, the number of international publications, quotation index, international cooperation…
Previously, on August 5th, 2020, the World University Ranking System Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) also announced the result of the ranking of the world’s best universities in 2020. TDTU is the only Vietnamese university that remains to be in this ranking board and ranked TOP 701-800th internationally, rises at least 200 levels compared to 2019 (901-1000th).
This is the deeply true proof of giving the autonomous right to universities by the government. Concurrently, it also shows that TDTU attaches much importance to the synchronous development of all aspects and all the critical tasks belong universities, constantly changes in order to adapt to international standards, being in the high rank in numerous fields simultaneously in the countless prestige ranking boards (with different criteria in each board), is the inevitable fruit of the persistent process.