Two UEF graduates have emerged as valedictorians with identical GPAs of 3.96, with one achieving IELTS 8.0 and the other scoring 865 on the TOEIC.

With 11 international papers before graduation and a 3.95 GPA, Mai Phan Quoc Hung has built an impressive academic record. But for him, the real achievement was discovering the kind of research he truly loves.

Three students who achieved perfect 30/30 scores in Vietnam’s 2026 high school graduation exam have chosen medicine at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City.

Though twin sisters Le Phuong Anh and Le Chau Anh studied the same major and both graduated with honors, they have always tried to build their own identities and strenghts rather than becoming each other’s “copy”.

Tran Minh Dung entered medical school worried that his math background might hold him back. Six years later, he has graduated top of his class with a 3.75/4 GPA.

Tran Ky Anh balanced a perfect 4.0 GPA with research, entrepreneurship contests and MC work, proving to himself that academic success extends far beyond textbooks.

Having chosen a new university major because he wanted to combine business and technology, Nguyen Duc Thanh never imagined that 4 years later he would graduate as the program's valedictorian and earn opportunities to conduct international research.

She entered Hanoi Medical University with a score just high enough for admission. Six years later, Nguyen Minh Hien is leaving as the university’s top graduating student.

The University of Science in HCMC is welcoming an accomplished freshman class featuring Olympiad medalists, top exam scorers and televised academic competition stars.

Seventeen students have graduated from Vietnam’s National Economics University with perfect 4.0 GPAs, while more than half of this year’s graduates earned the highest academic classification - both records for the university.

Once avoided by children who called him “snake boy,” Nguyen Dinh Vuong is now 24 and preparing to begin university life in Da Nang.

Vietnam ranked among the top eight at the 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics, with all four students receiving awards, including one gold and two silver medals.

Once missing her top-choice university, Nguyen Thi Anh Tuyet became the accounting valedictorian at the University of Economics and Business through sheer determination, earning a job offer from one of the world's Big4 professional services firms.

Although she earned enough points to enter the Doctor of Medicine program at Hanoi Medical University, Nguyen Vu Thao Tram chose instead to study biology, inspired by her late mother.

Childhood memories in her mother's laboratory shaped Nguyen Vu Thao Tram's dream of becoming a scientist. Before finishing university, she was accepted into a PhD program at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

A young Vietnamese man celebrated for carrying his disabled friend to school for 10 years has fulfilled another dream by graduating with a Doctor of Medicine degree.

After realizing that information technology was not the right path for him, Ngo Khanh Hoa decided to retake the university entrance exam.

Graduating as the valedictorian of the University of Natural Sciences and winning a master's degree scholarship in France, Tran Ngoc Hieu plans to continue pursuing theoretical mathematics before returning to contribute to mathematics in Vietnam.

Nguyen Thị Bich Ngoc, a 12th-grade physics major student at Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted in Ninh Binh province, has won a Gold Medal at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026).