The US News & World Reports magazine has just announced the 2022 Best Global Universities rankings. Vietnam increased its participation from four to five institutions this year, namely: Duy Tan University; Ton Duc Thang University; Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh city; Vietnam National University in Hanoi; and the Hanoi University of Science & Technology.
Three of those Vietnamese universities increased their rankings this year, with Ton Duc Thang University going from 623 to 387; Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City 1,271 to 1,187; Vietnam National University in Hanoi 949 to 938, while the Hanoi University of Science & Technology dropped from 1,356 to 1,449. Duy Tan University entered at 577.
The Best Vietnamese Universities in 2022
Vietnamese universities ranked by subject in 2022:
Engineering:
1. Ton Duc Thang University, 137
2. Duy Tan University, 355
3. Hanoi University of Science & Technology, 650
4. Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, 772
Four Vietnamese universities ranked in Engineering
Material Sciences:
1. Ton Duc Thang University, 478
2. Duy Tan University, 570
3. Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, 679
4. Hanoi University of Science & Technology, 701
Four Vietnamese universities ranked in Material Sciences
It was also reported that 26 of Top 50 universities worldwide were in North America. European institutions made up another third, including Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the UK, ranked in the Top 10 worldwide, and seven other countries were listed in the Top 50 European rankings, in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.
Tsinghua University in China, National University of Singapore in Singapore and King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia were ranked among the Top 50 universities worldwide.
The top 10 universities in the world are:
1. Harvard University, US
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
3. Stanford University, US
4. University of California-Berkeley, US
5. Oxford University, UK
6. Columbia University, US
7. University of Washington, US
8. Cambridge University, UK
9. California Institute of Technology, US
9. Johns Hopkins University, US
In addition to the many Asian institutions which have been regularly highly ranked, several new universities in this region were recognized in the 2022 report:
- University of Melbourne in Australia, 25
- Tsinghua University in China, 26
- University of Sydney in Australia, 28
- University of Queensland in Australia, 36
- Peking University in China, 45
- University of Hong Kong in China, 76
- University of Tokyo in Japan, 77
- Chinese University Hong Kong in China, 82
- Kyoto University in Japan, 127
- Seoul National University in Korea, 130
- Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in India, 408
Other highly ranked Asean universities:
- National University of Singapore, 29
- Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, 33
- Malaya University in Malaysia, 211
- Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam, 387
- Teknologi Malaysia University, 405
- Duy Tan University in Vietnam, 577
- Putra Malaysia University, 600
- Singapore Management University, 777
- Indonesia University, 878
The eighth annual U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities rankings show how universities compare internationally, surveying the 1,750 top institutions, up from 1,500 last year, in 90 countries, up from 86, all measured 13 leading indicators:
- Global research reputation (12.5%),
- Regional research reputation (12.5%),
- Percentage of total publications among the 10% most cited (12.5%),
- Number of publications among the 1% most cited (10%),
- Publications (10%),
- Normalized citation impact (10%).
- Total citations (7.5%),
- International collaboration relative to country (5%),
- Number of highly cited papers among the top 1% most cited in their respective field (5%),
- Percentage of total publications among the top 1% most highly cited papers (5%),
- International collaboration (5%),
- Books (2.5%)
- Conferences (2.5%).
(Media Center)