17 VN universities in global list with best academic achievements
VOV.VN - The University Ranking by Academic Performance, a Turkish non-profit organisation URAP, has honoured 17 Vietnamese universities for their outstanding academic performance globally.
Among the honoured institutions, Ton Duc Thang University was ranked 427th, Duy Tan University 446th, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City 1,013rd, and Vietnam National University in Hanoi 1,104th.
Notably, Duy Tan and Ton Duc Thang universities were named in the top 500 globally.
Last year, Vietnam had 12 universities in the URAP’s list.
This year, the URAP ranked more than 3,000 good universities in the world.
Elsewhere, the US’ Harvard University came first in the list, followed by Canada’s Toronto University, England’s University College London, and the US’s Stanford University.
The URAP, established in 2009 at the Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University, measures academic achievements of universities around the world based on the number of articles published in journals, the number of citations in journals, total number of research papers published internationally in the last five years, and international cooperation.