Global Partnerships

In order to create a university that will become the best in Vietnam and stand as a symbol of Vietnam’s emerging leadership, aspirations, and ambition for innovation and economic growth, in 2017, from the early dawn of VinUniversity (VinUni), the University’s leaders built relationships with two of the world’s best higher education institutions: Cornell University (for and on behalf of its Cornell SC Johnson College of Business) and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) — a choice that speaks to our commitment to excellence, innovation in research and teaching, and to making a difference in the world.
At our inception, these valuable relationships helped us to develop a blueprint for success by establishing our outstanding founding faculty and leadership teams, validating and assuring the quality of our original curricula, and guiding the University toward a path of international accreditation, and offered VinUni’s earliest and brightest students opportunities to intern and study with our partners in Vietnam and abroad.
While these collaborations laid the groundwork for VinUni’s initial leadership, curricula, and accreditation, VinUni established itself as, and remains, its own independent legal entity.
In March 2025, VinUni and Nanyang Technological University (NTU – Singapore) officially established a strategic, comprehensive, and long-term partnership. This milestone brings VinUni closer to its ambition of joining the ranks of the world’s top 100 universities, reinforcing Vietnam’s position as a pioneer in science and technology.

Strategic Collaboration

At the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, three prestigious schools combine to transcend the traditional boundaries of business education and research to transform critical thinking into practical solutions. Deeply integrated into Cornell’s expansive university ecosystem, the SC Johnson College prepares ethical, globally minded, successful leaders. Partnerships across the university, as well as our global connections, offer students the opportunity to forge new pathways across disciplines, industries, and borders, empowering them to drive innovation, anticipate change, shape businesses, and redefine what’s possible.

The Cornell SC Johnson College-VinUniversity partnership laid the foundations to position VinUniversity as a world-class teaching and research university in accordance with QS 5-star rating standards. Through its consultation, led by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, individual Cornell faculty supported VinUniversity in assuring and validating the quality of its original curriculum, building its founding faculty and leadership teams, and developing admission processes for its launch that follow the best practices in the world.

Founded in 1740, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) is a private university with its own medical school. UPenn is ranked 15th in the world by the 2023 QS World University Rankings, 16th in the field of Medicine, and 1st in Nursing. According to the U.S. News’ 2020 rankings, UPenn Health System is among the top 10 best hospitals in the United States, and its medical school was ranked 3rd in research.

UPenn is working with VinUniversity and with the Vinmec Hospital system to build a curriculum and training program for doctors, resident doctors, and nurses to meet the highest international standards. UPenn is also working with Vinmec hospitals to develop and train instructors, improve the quality of healthcare and services, expand specific services, and to build a world-class model of Health Science education at VinUniversity.

Ranked amongst the world’s top universities, Nanyang Technological University – NTU Singapore is a research-intensive public university, with 35,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Business, Computing & Data Science, Engineering, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Medicine, Science, and Graduate colleges. In the 22nd QS World University Rankings 2026, published in June 2025, NTU was ranked 12th in the world.

Through a strategic, comprehensive, and long-term partnership, VinUni and NTU will collaborate comprehensively in various fields, including but not limited to Computer Science, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics & Intelligent Mobility, AI in Materials Science & Engineering, and Health Sciences.
The NTU-VinUni alliance will encompass key initiatives such as faculty exchange and secondment programs, establishment of joint research centers and teams, recruitment of postdoctoral scholars and PhD researchers, co-organization of scientific and technological conferences, and development of research lab infrastructure in critical fields.
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Our Global Academic Partners

VinUni proactively seeks to develop lasting collaborative relationships with leading universities and institutions around the world for academic development activities including, but not limited to, the exchange of students, academic and administrative human resources, cooperation in joint research and teaching activities, and joint academic programs. As we aspire toward building a world-class higher education instituion in Vietnam, we look forward to collaborating with partners near and far to bring about impactful values for our communities and the world.

More information on our current partnerships can be found by clicking on the regions below.

Asia

Africa

America

Europe

Oceania

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Connect with Us

For University relations:

universityrelations@vinuni.edu.vn (global engagement activities), globalexchange@vinuni.edu.vn (outgoing students) and incomingexchange@vinuni.edu.vn (incoming students)

Tel: (+84)-2471 089 779 (ext: 9006)