Of the number, more than 600 articles were published in international journals ,an increase of nearly 32 percent compared to the same period last year.

VNUHCM academics have been working with their counterparts at local andinternational scientific and technological organisations to publish theirresearch.

This has helped increase VNUHCM's international university rankings. Theschool, for instance, this year climbed 58 spots to 143rd in the London-basededucation consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings 2020compared to 2016.

The school is also listed in the top 1001 in the Times Higher Education WorldUniversity Rankings and is the only Vietnamese university listed in QS GraduateEmployability Rankings 2020.

VNUHCM has 65 joint bachelor's and master's degree programmes with foreignuniversities, including 46 percent in the technical sector and the rest in thesocial sector.  

For the 2018-22 period, VNUHCM is carrying out a project to develop educationin the 4.0 industry era that incorporates the CDIO approach(conceiving-designing-implementing-operating), which is a standard educationalframework used to achieve comprehensive development of knowledge, skills,virtue and capacity for students./.VNA