Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU; , ĐHQGHN) is a

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. The university system has 10 member universities and faculties. VNU is one of two Vietnam's national universities, the other one being

Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM; ) is a public research university system in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. VNU-HCM is one of two Vietnam's national universities, the other one being Vietnam National University, Hanoi. It ra ...

. It was ranked 201–250th in

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by the QS University Rankings 2020. In 2020, it was one of the two Vietnamese universities 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. This university was home to the country's first business school. The institution currently owns four high schools - three of which are for gifted students in foreign languages ( Foreign Language Specialized School), natural science (

High School for Gifted Students, Hanoi University of Science The HUS High School for Gifted Students, commonly known as High School for Gifted Students of Science (HSGS; ), is a specialized, most-selective (6% acceptance rate) public magnet school of VNU University of Science, a member of Vietnam National ...

), social science ( High School for Gifted Students in Social Sciences and Humanities), and the fourth school (High School of Educational Sciences) applies advanced educational technology in teaching; as well as a middle school ( ULIS Middle School).

Campus

Location

Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) has 7 campuses across 7 districts of

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, namely: # Cầu Giấy campus # Hoàn Kiếm campus # Thanh Xuân campus # Hai Bà Trưng campus # Hòa Lạc campus,

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(current headquarters) # Nam Từ Liêm campus # Ba Vì campus

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):

Member universities and schools

* VNU University of Science (VNU-HUS) **

(HSGS) *

VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities (VNU-USSH; Vietnamese: ''Trường Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn, Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội''), or Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities, is a major resear ...

(VNU-USSH) ** High School for Gifted Students, VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities(HSSH) * VNU University of Languages and International Studies (VNU-ULIS) ** ULIS Middle School ** Foreign Language Specialized School (FLSS) * VNU University of Engineering and Technology (VNU-UET) * VNU University of Economics and Business (VNU-UEB) * VNU University of Education (VNU-UEd) * VNU University of Medicine and Pharmacy (VNU-UMP) *

VNU Vietnam Japan University VNU Vietnam Japan University (VNU-VJU, Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: Trường Đại học Việt Nhật, ) is the seventh university under the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU). It was established in 2014 following a joint declaration ...

(VNU-VJU) * VNU University of Law (VNU-UL) * VNU School of Business and Management (VNU-HSB) * VNU International School (VNU-IS) * VNU School of Interdisciplinary Studies (VNU-SIS)

Notable alumni

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Nguyễn Thái Học Nguyễn Thái Học (; chữ Hán: 阮太學; 1 December 1902 – 17 June 1930) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and independent activist who was the founding leader of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, namely the Vietnamese Nationalist Par ...

Võ Nguyên Giáp Võ Nguyên Giáp ( vi-hantu, , ; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Highly regarded as a military strategist, Giáp led Vietnamese communist forces to victories in wars agains ...

- (Red Napoleon) *

Phạm Xuân Nguyên Phạm Xuân Nguyên (born 15 May 1958), better known by his pen name Ngân Xuyên, is a Vietnamese literature, Vietnamese writer and literary translation, literary translator. Personal life and career Phạm Xuân Nguyên was born in Nghệ A ...

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 Vie ...

- (Fields Medal) *

Đàm Thanh Sơn Đàm Thanh Sơn (born 1969) is a Vietnamese theoretical physicist working in quantum chromodynamics, applications of string theory and many-body physics. Early life and education Born in North Vietnam, Bac Ninh. Sơn attended HUS High School ...

- (Dirac Medal) *

Hoàng Tụy Hoàng Tụy (7 December 1927 – 14 July 2019) was a prominent Vietnamese applied mathematician. He was considered one of two founders of the mathematical institutions of Vietnam; the other was Lê Văn Thiêm. Career Hoàng Tụy's early car ...

- (Constantin Caratheodory Prize) *

Nguyễn Phú Trọng Nguyễn Phú Trọng ( ; 14 April 194419 July 2024) was a Vietnamese politician and political theorist who served as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 until his death in 2024. As the head of the party's Secretaria ...

- (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 wit ...

- (Nobel Peace Prize) *

Trần Quang Đức (: , born 16 May 1985) is a Vietnamese art historian, calligrapher, author, and translator. As an art historian his specialisation is the comparative study of Vietnamese cultural history within the Southeast Asian context. His 2013 book ' ( ...

Đào Duy Anh Đào Duy Anh (25 April 1904 – 1 April 1988) was a Vietnamese historian and List of lexicographers, lexicographer. He was born in Thanh Oai, Hà Tây, now, Hanoi. He was one of the writers associated with the Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm affair. ...

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

References

External links

* * ** (English) * {{Authority control Universities and colleges established in 1906 1906 establishments in French Indochina