Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNUH) has been named among 200 leading schools in Asia under the 2011 Asian University Rankings by Subject recently released by Quacquarelli Symonds, a company specializing in education and study abroad. The university focuses training on such majors as natural sciences, engineering & technology, social sciences & management, and life sciences & medicine. Accordingly, natural sciences ranks 146, engineering & technology 147, social sciences & management 157, and life sciences & medicine 173. This is the first time the VNUH majors have ever been listed in the rankings. VNUH gets the highest average score among five Vietnamese colleges listed in the rankings; the other four are the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City; Hue University; Can Tho University, and University of Danang. The rankings are formulated on the basis of research quality, teaching quality, and international reputation of the ranked universities. VNUH is also among eight Vietnamese schools currently standing in the top 100 universities in Southeast Asia, January statistics from the 2011 Webometrics Ranking of World Universities show. The other seven are the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Can Tho University, Nong Lam University, An Giang University, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, and University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. The “Webometrics Ranking of World Universities” is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, the largest public research body in Spain. Vietnam now has 375 universities and colleges. The country set a target to put one university in the world’s top 200 universities by 2020. (www.2.dtinews.vn [1] June 8)
