Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU; vi, Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội, ĐHQGHN) is a public

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. The university has 10 member colleges (called "universities") and faculties. VNU is one of two Vietnam's national universities, ranked 201–250th in

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by the QS ASIA University Rankings 2020. In 2020, it was one of the first two Vietnamese universities (the other one being Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City) to be included in the QS Global Ranking of Top 150 universities under 50 years old by 2021.

History

Throughout its history, the university has had several name changes: the University of Indochina (''Université Indochinoise'', 東洋大學 or ''Đại học Đông Dương''; established in 1906), Vietnam National University (''Trường Đại học Quốc gia Việt Nam''; November 1945), and the University of Hanoi (''Trường Đại học Tổng hợp Hà Nội;'' June 1956). In 1993, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (''Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội'') was created by merging the University of Hanoi, Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE) and College of Foreign Languages. The institution also owns two high schools for gifted students in foreign languages ( Foreign Language Specialized School) and natural science ( High School for Gifted Students, Hanoi University of Science).

Board of Directors

* President: Lê Quân * Vice President: Nguyễn Hoàng Hải * Vice President: Phạm Bảo Sơn

Member institutions

Vietnam National University, Hanoi includes the following members (universities, schools): * VNU University of Science (VNU-HUS) * VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities (VNU-USSH) * VNU University of Languages and International Studies (VNU-ULIS) * VNU University of Engineering and Technology (VNU-UET) * VNU University of Economics and Business (VNU-UEB) ** College of Economics, Vietnam National University * VNU University of Education (VNU-UED) * VNU University of Medicine and Pharmacy (VNU-UMP) * VNU Vietnam Japan University (VNU-VJU) * VNU School of Law (VNU-LS) * VNU School of Business (VNU-HSB) * VNU International School (VNU-IS) * VNU School of Interdisciplinary Studies (VNU-SIS)

University rankings

The university attained a ranking in the 201–250 grouping in Asia, under the QS ASIA University Rankings 2020. Also in the same year, it attained a ''THE'' World University Ranking in the 801–1000 group, and a ''THE'' World University Ranking Asia in the 201–250 group.

Notable people

* Anderson Cooper * Nguyễn Thái Học *

Võ Nguyên Giáp Võ Nguyên Giáp (; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general and communist politician who is regarded as having been one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century. He served as interior minister in President ...

- (Red Napoleon) * Phạm Xuân Nguyên *

Ngô Bảo Châu Ngô Bảo Châu (, born June 28, 1972) is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad). He is the first ...

- (Fields Medal) * Đàm Thanh Sơn - (Dirac Medal) * Hoàng Tụy - (Constantin Caratheodory Prize) *

Nguyễn Phú Trọng Nguyễn Phú Trọng (born 14 April 1944) is a Vietnamese politician who has served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam — the highest political position in Vietnam — since 2011. In addition, Nguyễn Phú Trọng ser ...

- (General Secretary) *

Lê Đức Thọ Lê Đức Thọ (; 14 October 1911 – 13 October 1990), born Phan Đình Khải in Nam Dinh Province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary, general, diplomat, and politician. He was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with ...

- (Nobel Peace Prize) * Trần Quang Đức * Đào Duy Anh * Joe Ruelle *

Phan Huy Lê Phan Huy Lê (Thạch Châu, Lộc Hà district, Hà Tĩnh province, 23 February 1934 – 23 June 2018) was a Vietnamese historian and professor of history at the Hanoi National University. He authored of many studies on village society, landho ...

* Lê Văn Thiêm - (Mathematician) * Van H. Vu - (Pólya Prize) * Tạ Bích Loan * Tran Duc Thao * Trần Quốc Vượng

References

External links

* * ** (English) * {{Authority control Educational institutions established in 1906 1906 establishments in French Indochina