Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, in Vietnamese Đại học Quốc gia Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, is a public research university system headquartered in the northeastern suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City and one of Vietnam's two independent national universities.胡志明市国家大学（越南语「Đại học Quốc gia Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh」）是位于越南胡志明市东北郊的公立研究型大学体系，为越南两所相互独立的国家大学之一。

Founded on 27 January 1995 by Government Decree 16/CP from the merger of nine constituent universities and reorganised on 12 February 2001 by Decision 15/2001/QĐ-TTg signed by Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải, it today comprises eight member universities and one institute.该校依据 1995 年 1 月 27 日第 16 号政府令由九所成员大学合并而成，并于 2001 年 2 月 12 日经潘文凯总理签署的第 15/2001/QĐ-TTg 号决定改组，现辖 8 所成员大学与 1 个研究所。

The system provides 147 undergraduate programmes, 123 master's and M.Eng programmes and 83 doctoral programmes, and is placed in the 801-850 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.该体系开设 147 个本科专业、123 个硕士与工程硕士项目以及 83 个博士项目，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 801-850 档。

History

• Modern public higher education in southern Vietnam began from the Saigon University of the former South Vietnamese regime, whose two largest colleges were the Colleges of Letters and Sciences.越南南部的现代公立高等教育源于前南越政权时期的西贡大学院，其最大的两所学府即文学院与理学院。

• In 1977 the Government of Vietnam merged the Saigon College of Letters and the Saigon College of Sciences into a general institution named Ho Chi Minh City University, the direct ancestor of the later national university system.1977 年，越南政府将西贡文科大学与西贡理科大学合并为胡志明市综合大学，此综合性大学即后来国家大学体系的直接前身。

• Ho Chi Minh City University carried forward the two-faculty arrangement of the older Saigon University and continued to educate students across the south until the mid-1990s reorganisation.胡志明市综合大学承袭旧西贡大学院的两院格局，一直办学至 20 世纪 90 年代中期改组之前，仍为南部培养各专业的学生。

• Government Decree 16/CP, issued on 27 January 1995, created Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City by merging Ho Chi Minh City University with the Thu Duc Technology Training University, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Agriculture and Sylviculture.1995 年 1 月 27 日第 16/CP 号政府令将胡志明市综合大学与 Thủ Đức 技术师范大学、胡志明市理工大学、胡志明市农林大学合并，组建胡志明市国家大学。

• The same decree brought the University of Economics, the University of Accounting and Finance, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Education and the Ho Chi Minh City Architecture University into the merger, while the southern branch of the Hanoi Law University completed the founding group.同一政令还把经济学院、会计财务学院、胡志明市师范大学与胡志明市建筑大学并入合并，河内法律大学南方分校则补齐了创始成员名单。

• Nine constituent universities thus formed the nucleus of the new system, and the merger was officially declared in Ho Chi Minh City on 6 February 1996 in a public ceremony.九所成员大学由此结成新体系的核心，合并于 1996 年 2 月 6 日在胡志明市公开典礼上正式宣告完成。

• Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải signed Decision 15/2001/QĐ-TTg on 12 February 2001, reorganising both Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi national universities with a specific internal organisation distinct from that of other Vietnamese universities.潘文凯总理于 2001 年 2 月 12 日签署第 15/2001/QĐ-TTg 号决定，对南北两所国家大学进行改组，其内部建制区别于越南其他高校。

• That 2001 decision gave both national universities priority in postgraduate education and in scientific research in technology, casting them as pioneers of Vietnam's education and science system.2001 年的这项决定赋予两所国家大学以优先发展研究生教育与科技研究的地位，使其成为越南教育与科技体系的先行者。

• Under the 2001 reorganisation some of the founding member colleges were split off from the Ho Chi Minh City system and came back under the direct management of the Ministry of Education.依 2001 年改组方案，若干创始成员院校从胡志明市国家大学体系中划出，重归教育部的直接管辖。

• The university operates as a Level-I budget estimation unit, with its estimate allocated directly by the Prime Minister of Vietnam rather than through an ordinary ministry.该校作为一级预算编制单位运行，其预算由越南总理直接下达，而非经普通部委转拨。

• As a public institution managed by the Ministry of Education and Training, the university holds legal entity status, its own account and a seal bearing the national emblem.作为教育部主管的公立机构，该校具有法人资格、独立账户以及带有国徽的印章。

• Its remit covers high-quality, multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral higher education, scientific research and technology transfer across the fields it teaches, several of which lead the country.其职责覆盖所开设领域的高质量多学科、多门类高等教育、科学研究与技术转移，其中若干领域居全国领先。

• In 2017 the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, the Ben Tre Provincial People's Committee and the university signed a joint agreement that created the Ben Tre Branch in Ben Tre Province.2017 年，教育培训部、胡志明市人民委员会、槟椥省人民委员会与该校签署合作协议，在槟椥省设立槟椥分校。

• In August 2019 the Ministry of Education and Training issued a decision transferring An Giang University, located in An Giang Province, into the membership of Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City.2019 年 8 月，教育培训部作出决定，将地处安江省的安江大学划入胡志明市国家大学成员行列。

• The 2019 addition of An Giang University gave the system one of its most geographically distant members and extended national-university training into the Mekong Delta provinces.2019 年接纳安江大学使该体系拥有了地理上最远的成员之一，把国家大学的培养辐射推向湄公河三角洲诸省。

• As of the 2007 academic catalogue the university offered 120 bachelor cohorts, 88 master cohorts and 90 doctoral cohorts, a scale recorded by contemporaneous Chinese-language sources on the institution.按 2007 年的学科目录口径，该校共设 120 个学士班、88 个硕士班与 90 个博士班，此规模见于同时期中文资料对这所大学的记载。

• The present catalogue gives 147 undergraduate programmes, 123 master's and M.Eng programmes and 83 doctoral programmes, an expansion of the cohort counts recorded in 2007.现行目录给出 147 个本科专业、123 个硕士与工程硕士项目以及 83 个博士项目，班数已较 2007 年明显扩容。

• Its headquarters sit in Linh Xuan, formerly Linh Trung, in the northeastern suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City, alongside a second large site at Dong Hoa in the same direction.该校总部设在大临宣（原临中），位于胡志明市东北郊，同向另设一处大型校区于东和。

• The system is recognised as one of Vietnam's premier higher-education institutions and is ranked second nationally by the Viet Nam University Rankings, Vietnam's own national table of universities.该体系被公认为越南顶级高等学府之一，并在越南本国大学排行榜 VNUR 中全国第二。

• In 2020 the university was selected as one of only two Vietnamese institutions carried into the QS Global Ranking of Top 150 universities under 50 years old by 2021, an edition that recognised young-world universities.2020 年，该校成为入选 2021 年 QS「建校 50 年以下全球 150 强」榜单的两所越南高校之一，该版榜单专门评估年轻的现代大学。

• Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnam National University Hanoi are two independent public national university systems created by Vietnamese decrees in 1995, each with its own members, budget line and leadership.胡志明市国家大学与河内国家大学是 1995 年由越南政府令分别设立的两所独立公立国家大学体系，各自拥有成员、预算线与领导班子。

Academics

• Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City comprises eight member universities and one institute, arranged as a multi-university system rather than a single integrated faculty body.胡志明市国家大学由 8 所成员大学与 1 个研究所组成，采用多大学体系，而非单一学院式整合建制。

• The Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology is the system's leading engineering institution and one of the founding members established in 1995.胡志明市理工大学是该体系最领先的工程类机构，也是 1995 年创校时的创始成员之一。

• The Ho Chi Minh City University of Science carries natural-science teaching and research, its lineage running back to the older Saigon College of Sciences.胡志明市自然科学大学承担自然科学教学与研究，其谱系上溯至旧西贡理学院。

• The Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities groups literature, history, linguistics and social-science programmes under one member university.胡志明市人文社会科学大学把文学、历史、语言学与社会科学的课程整合在一所成员大学之下。

• The Ho Chi Minh City International University offers an international-curriculum pathway within the national-university system and admits students from across Vietnam.胡志明市国际大学在国家大学体系内提供国际课程路径，面向全国招生。

• The Ho Chi Minh City University of Information Technology runs the system's computing and information-technology degrees and anchors its Computer Science subject ranking.胡志明市信息技术大学运营该体系的计算机与信息技术学位，是其计算机科学学科名次的支撑单位。

• The University of Economics and Law is the successor body that houses the economics, business and legal programmes of the national-university system.经济法律大学承接了原经济学院与河内法律大学南方分校的学脉，是体系中经济、商学与法学专业的办学主体。

• The University of Health Sciences is the system's health-professions member, extending VNU-HCM into medicine, pharmacy and clinical training.健康科学大学是该体系负责医学、药学与临床培养的成员，使该校教育范围延伸至卫生健康专业。

• The Institute of Environment and Resources supports environmental and resource-science research across the system and connects the university to national environmental work.环境与资源研究所支撑全体系的环境与资源科学研究，并把该校与越南的国家环境工作联系起来。

• The School of Political and Administration Sciences delivers programmes in governance, public policy and administrative studies within the national-university system.政治与行政学院在国家大学体系内开设治理、公共政策与行政学专业。

• The Branch of VNU-HCM in Ben Tre Province, established in 2017 under a joint agreement with the provincial People's Committee, extends member-university teaching into the Mekong Delta.槟椥分校依据 2017 年同槟椥省人民委员会的共同协议设立，把成员大学的教学延伸到湄公河三角洲。

• The John von Neumann Institute, named for the mathematician, coordinates the system's high-performance computing and applied-mathematics research in Linh Xuan.约翰·冯·诺依曼研究所以大数学家命名，位于大临宣，统筹体系内的高性能计算与应用数学研究。

• The IC Design Research and Education Center and the Integrated Circuit Research and Education Center coordinate the system's microelectronics and semiconductor research missions.集成电路设计与教育中心、集成电路研究与教育中心协同承担该体系的微电子与半导体研究任务。

• The Nanotechnology Institute and the Center for Innovative Materials and Architectures provide the material-science and architectural research bases of the university system.纳米技术研究所与创新材料建筑中心共同构成该体系材料科学与建筑研究的基地。

• The Center for Educational Testing and Quality Assessment and the English Testing Center operate the system's internal examinations, quality audits and language certifications.教育考试与质量评估中心、英语测试中心承担体系内部的考试、质量审核与语言认证。

• The Central Library and the Publishing House maintain the collections and imprint services that support teaching and research across the eight member universities.中央图书馆与出版社为 8 所成员大学提供馆藏与出版服务。

• The Development Foundation and the Center for Investment Promotion and Services support the university's external funding, industry liaison and stakeholder engagement.发展基金会与投资促进服务中心支持学校对外筹资、行业对接与利益相关方合作。

• The Water Management and Climate Change Center, the National Defense Studies Center and the Student Security service run the system's specialised teaching and research missions.水资源管理与气候变化中心、国防教育中心与学生安全服务承担体系专门的教学与研究使命。

• Member universities run joint research groups with foreign partners, and the International Education Institute coordinates these programmes and exchange schemes across the eight member universities.各成员大学与海外伙伴共组研究团队，国际教育学院则统筹这些跨越 8 所成员大学的课程与交流项目。

Campus

• The system's headquarters stand in Linh Xuan, formerly Linh Trung, on the northeastern edge of Ho Chi Minh City, with a second large site at Dong Hoa opening toward Binh Duong Province's university belt.该校总部设于大临宣（原临中），坐落在胡志明市东北缘，同向另辟东和大型校区，直通平阳省的大学带。

• A Ho Chi Minh City Metro station named National University sits on Line 1 near the Linh Xuan campus, tying the university to the city's new rail network.胡志明市地铁 1 号线在大临宣校区附近设有国家大学站，使该校接入城市新建轨道交通网。

• The Center for Dormitory Management operates student residences across the Linh Xuan campus precinct, offering accommodation for out-of-town students of the system.宿舍管理中心在临宣校园片区运营学生公寓，为体系内来自外地的学生提供住宿。

• The Information Technology Park inside the campus supplies office and laboratory space for computing start-ups and information-technology research units.校园内的信息技术园区为计算初创企业与信息技术研究单位提供办公与实验场所。

• Campus construction and estate development are handled by the Construction Project Management Unit and the Center for Campus Management and Development.校园工程建设与用地开发由建设项目管理单位与校园管理发展中心负责。

• The Ben Tre Branch, opened in 2017, extends the university's site network into Ben Tre Province in the Mekong Delta.槟椥分校于 2017 年启用，把该校校园网络延伸到湄公河三角洲的槟椥省。

• An Giang University, transferred into the system in August 2019, adds a further campus in An Giang Province to VNU-HCM's site network.2019 年 8 月划入体系的安江大学，为该校再添一所位于安江省的校区。

• Its landholding is set to the scale of a national-university township rather than an urban college, with teaching, dormitory, laboratory and metro-linked zones planned as one precinct, and the system publishes its institutional information through its official portal vnuhcm.edu.vn.其用地按国家大学新城的尺度而非都市校区规划，教学、住宿、实验与地铁接驳区划为整体片区，体系信息通过官方门户 vnuhcm.edu.vn 对外发布。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City in the 801-850 band, the ranking position on which this entry is written.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将胡志明市国家大学列入第 801-850 档，本条目即据此档位收录。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 1801-2000 band, a position well behind the same institution's QS rank of the same year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入第 1801-2000 档，位势明显低于其同年 QS 名次。

• Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City is not listed in the 2026-2027 edition of the US News Best Global Universities ranking, and the same holds for the 2026 ARWU Shanghai Ranking main list.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名未收录胡志明市国家大学，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜亦未见其名次。

• Subject-level standing is documented in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, where Engineering and Technology sits inside the world's top 351.学科维度名次见于 2026 年 QS 分学科世界大学排名，其中工程与技术进入世界前 351。

• Within that subject edition Petroleum Engineering is ranked 101-150 in the world, the system's single highest subject placement in the tables.在该版学科榜单中，石油工程列世界第 101-150 位，是该体系单项最高的学科位次。

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering stands at 351-400 in the same 2026 QS subject table, alongside Computer Science and Information Systems at 401-450.2026 年 QS 分学科榜单上，电子电气工程列 351-400 位，计算机科学与信息系统列 401-450 位。

• Mathematics and Natural Sciences fall in the 401-450 band, while Social Sciences and Management stand at 341st globally and Arts and Humanities at 501-550 in the QS 2026 subject tables.数学与自然科学落在 401-450 位区间，社会科学与管理学列全球第 341 位，艺术与人文列 501-550 位。

• Linguistics is ranked 201-250 in the world in the QS 2026 subject tables, Economics and Econometrics 351-400, Business and Management Studies 451-500, and Law and Legal Studies 351-400.2026 年 QS 学科榜中语言学列世界 201-250 位，经济与计量经济学 351-400 位，商业与管理研究 451-500 位，法学 351-400 位。

• Quantifiable output for the system rests on documented institutional scale, with 147 undergraduate programmes, 123 master's and M.Eng programmes and 83 doctoral programmes across eight member universities and one institute.该体系可计量产出以其制度规模为依据：8 所成员大学与 1 个研究所共开设 147 个本科专业、123 个硕士与工程硕士项目及 83 个博士项目。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliation is recorded for Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City in the available sources, and its highest honours are institutional, resting on its 2nd place in the VNUR national ranking and its two-member entry in the QS under-50 table.现有材料未记载胡志明市国家大学与诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级人物的直接关联，其最高荣誉属机构层面：VNUR 全国排名居第二，且是入选 QS 建校 50 年以下榜单的两所越南院校之一。

Student life

• VNU-HCM High School for the Gifted, an affiliated unit inside the university system, runs a specialised secondary school for academically talented students.国家大学附属高中是该体系内的附属单位，为学业优异的中学生提供专门化的中学教育。

• The Center for Predoctoral Training and the Center for Political Science provide graduate and pre-doctoral academic communities on the Linh Xuan campus.博士前培训中心与政治科学中心在大临宣校区形成研究生与博士前的学术社群。

• The Institute of University Governance and the International Education Institute host governance studies, exchange services and international-programme support for students of all nine members.大学治理研究所与国际教育学院面向体系内 9 个成员提供治理研习、交换服务与国际课程支持。

• National-defence education and student safety are organised through the Center for National Defense Studies and Student Security, a service unit attached to the whole system.国防教育与校园安全由国防教育与学生安全中心组织，是覆盖全体系的服务性单位。

• The VNU-HCM Journal of Science and Technology Development is the system's own scientific imprint, published through the university's Publishing House.《发展与科技杂志》是该体系自办的科技学术期刊，由大学出版社出版。

• The Center for Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer mediates between the system's laboratories and industry partners across Vietnam.知识产权与技术转移中心在校园实验室与越南各地的产业伙伴之间起中介作用。

• Residential life is anchored by the Center for Dormitory Management, whose Linh Xuan halls house out-of-town students of the eight member universities.学生住宿由宿舍管理中心承担，其在临宣的宿舍楼安置来自外地的 8 所成员大学学生。

• Because the university spans nine member institutions from technology to the humanities, student societies, sporting events and cultural programmes are organised separately by member campus.因体系横跨 9 所从工科到人文的各成员院校，学生社团、体育赛事与文化活动由各成员校区分别组织。

• Student services such as the English Testing Center, the Center for Educational Testing and Quality Assessment and the Center for Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer give students access to certification, quality feedback and commercialisation support within the system.英语测试中心、教育考试与质量评估中心、知识产权与技术转移中心等服务单位，使体系内学生可在校内获得语言认证、质量反馈与成果转化支持。

Notable people

• Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải signed the 12 February 2001 Decision 15/2001/QĐ-TTg that reorganised the national university, the personal act most closely tied to the institution's modern shape.潘文凯总理于 2001 年 2 月 12 日签署第 15/2001/QĐ-TTg 号决定，重塑国家大学建制的正是这份由总理本人签发的文件。

• John von Neumann, the mathematician after whom the system's research institute is named, is honoured within VNU-HCM as the namesake of its high-performance computing work.以数学家约翰·冯·诺依曼命名的研究所使这位学者的名字成为该体系高性能计算工作的代称。

• The nine constituent universities that merged on 27 January 1995 were represented by their rectors and by the Ministry of Education and Training, rather than by a single founding personality.1995 年 1 月 27 日合并的九所成员大学以各校校长与教育培训部为代表参与创立，并无单一的个人创办者。

• The Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, one of the founding members, continues the pedagogical tradition that trained southern Vietnam's teachers before 1975 and after.胡志明市师范大学作为创始成员之一，延续了 1975 年前后越南南部的师资培养传统。

• The Ho Chi Minh City Architecture University, another founding member, links the national system to the architects who planned post-war southern Vietnam's built environment.胡志明市建筑大学同为创始成员之一，使国家大学体系与战后南部越南建成环境的设计者相连。

• The Thu Duc Technology Training University, absorbed at the 1995 founding, carried forward the technical teaching lineage that had grown around Thủ Đức through the twentieth century.首德技术师范大学在 1995 年建校时被并入，其二十世纪在 Thủ Đức 生长的技术教学脉络由此汇入体系。

• The University of Economics and the University of Accounting and Finance, both founding members, feed into VNU-HCM's current standing in the Economics and Econometrics subject band.经济学院与会计财务学院均为创始成员，直接支撑该校今日在经济与计量经济学学科区间内的位次。

• An Giang University's 2019 admission extended Vietnamese national-university training into the Mekong Delta's teaching communities under An Giang Province's People's Committee.安江大学于 2019 年入学，把越南国家大学培养带到安江省人民委员会辖区内的湄公河三角洲教学社群。

• No individual alumnus, faculty member or public figure of international profile is recorded for VNU-HCM in the available sources, so its notable-persons record remains institutional rather than personal in the sources consulted.现有可核资料未列出具名的校友、教师或国际公众人物，其人物条目因此停留在机构层面而非个人层面。