Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam NationalUniversity (VNU) - Hanoi has been named within the 801th-1,000th group in the TimesHigher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2021.
Meanwhile, VNU - HCM City and the Hanoi Universityof Science and Technology ranked in the 1,001th group.
VNU - Hanoi enjoyed improvements across all fourareas of the rankings, lifting its overall score to 26.24 from last year’s24.86. Its Research score rose 8.8 percent while that of Citations increased 8percent.
Scores in Teaching and Industry Income rose 2.3percent and 1.6 percent, respectively.
The University of Oxford in the UK again led therankings, followed by the US’s Stanford University, Harvard University, theCalifornia Institute of Technology, and the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology.
The top 1,001 saw 17 universities from Thailand, 15from Malaysia, nine from Indonesia, two from Singapore, and one from Brunei.One in Thailand and another in Malaysia were ranked in the 801th-1,000th group.
The THE World University Rankings 2021 include morethan 1,520 universities across 93 countries and territories and are the largestand most diverse university rankings available.
The table is based on 13 carefully-calibrated performanceindicators grouped into the five areas of Teaching (the learning environment);Research (volume, income and reputation); Citations (research influence);International Outlook (staff, students and research); and Industry Income(knowledge transfer)./.