Ho Chi Minh City-based Ton Duc Thang University took the lead among the five Vietnamese universities, claiming 73rd place, followed by Duy Tan University in Ho Chi Minh City (91st).
This marks the first time ever that Vietnamese universities have broken into the Asia top 100 list in the annual ranking.
Viet Nam National University in the capital city of Ha Noi was placed between 301st and 350th while Viet Nam National University in Ho Chi Minh City and Ha Noi University of Science and Technology were ranked in the 401st-500th and 501st+, respectively.
Featuring 616 institutions from 31 countries and territories, the 2022 ranking of the top Asian universities is THE's biggest ever.
The rankings are scored on 11 key indicators, which are academic reputation (30 percent), employer reputation (20 percent), faculty/student ratio (10 percent), international research network (10 percent), citations per paper (10 percent) and papers per faculty (5 percent), staff with a PhD (5 percent), proportion of international faculty (2.5 percent) and proportion of international students (2.5 percent), proportion of inbound exchange students (2.5 percent) and proportion of outbound exchange students (2.5 percent).