Two other Vietnamese universities, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi University of Science and Technology were placed in the 1001+ group.
This year the rankings measured 1,527 universities around the world based on indicators that consider an institution’s performance across Teaching (the learning environment); Research (volume, income and reputation); Citations (research influence); International outlook (staff, students and research); and Industry Income (knowledge transfer).
According to the rankings, the world’s top 5 include the University of Oxford in the UK and four universities in the US namely, Stanford, Harvard, the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.