VNU-HCM advanced into Top 143 Asia
Increasing 58 levels (compared to 2016) in the QS Asia Rankings 2019-2020 is the result that Quacquarelli Symonds Organization (England) announced on November 27, 2019.
The QS Asia Ranking 2019-2020 has just praised 600 leading universities in Asia, in which Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU – HCM) ranked 143, Vietnam National University Hanoi ranked 147.
Especially, at the two criteria academic reputation (via colleagues’ opinions survey) and graduate quality (via recruiters’ opinion survey), VNU-HCM is currently the best one in Vietnam and Top 100 Asia leading universities.
Dr. Nguyen Quoc Chinh – Director of Center for Educational Testing and Quality Assessment at VNU – HCM said that these are two critical criteria and account for the largest portion (50%) in 10 university ranking criteria of QS Asia. The score for academic reputation and graduate quality of VNU-HCM respectively are 42.9% and 42.1%.
With this result (Top 143), VNU-HCM advanced 58 levels compared to 2016
For the time being, VNU-HCM has had many achievements in the university rankings such as Top 701-705 QS World, Top 101-105 Under 50 (Top university under 50 years old), Top 1001+ THE World University Rankings 2020. Remarkably, VNU-HCM is the only representative of Vietnam in Top 301-500 QS GER 2020 (Top university with the highest students’ employment rate). Those all are prestigious educational rankings of the area and worldwide.
Read more: Only two Vietnam universities are ranked in the Top 1.000 universities in the world
QS Rankings place universities based on 10 criteria with different proportion, including:
– Academic reputation (30%)
– Recruiters’ opinion survey on graduate quality (20%)
– Lecturers/ students ratio (15%)
– Percentage of doctoral degree lecturers (5%)
– Published articles/ lecturers ratio (10%)
– Citation from each published research (10%)
– International lecturers ratio (2.5%)
– International students ratio (2.5%)
– Domestic students’ exchange (2.5)
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