Two students from VNU HUS High School for Gifted Students among the four Vietnamese contestants attending the International Biology Olympiad 2020 won a silver medal and a bronze medal.

As announced by the Ministry of Education and Training on August 22, 2020, six Vietnamese contestants including four from VNU HUS High School for Gifted Students won medals at the 2020 Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad.

UPM is the rating system, the development of which was funded by the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training, to assess the responsiveness of universities in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) era.

On August 18, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) and the Southeast Asian University Network (AUN) co-organized an international conference on "Mapping the quality of higher education" and introduced the Vietnam-developed ranking system called “University Performance Metrics” (UPM), and announced the first ranking results for 28 Vietnamese and ASEAN educational institutions .

Nguyen Hoang Duong, an 11th grader from VNU HUS High School for Gifted Students was one of the four Vietnamese gold medalists at the 52nd International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO 2020).

Scoring 94.08 and placed at 9/231, Nguyễn Hoàng Dương was the sole 11th grade student in Vietnam to earn an International Chemistry Olympiad medal in 2020.

Kurita Water and Environment Foundation has just announced their sponsorship for 11 research topics in Vietnam in 2020. Each is given 400.000 JPY, equals 88 million VND or US$ 3.818. One of the sponsored topics belongs to Đào Thị Hương, a graduate student in VNU University of Science (VNU – HUS).

VNU University of Science (VNU – HUS) held the announcement ceremony on the decision to appoint two new Vice Principals for the 2020, Prof.Dr. Lê Thành Sơn and Assoc.Prof. Ngạc An Bang.

Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), for the first time, features in Group 101-150 global young universities with top education quality in the QS Top 50 Under 50 University Rankings 2021 published on June 24, 2020. This ranking also lists VNU - Ho Chi Minh City and thus, featuring both national universities of Vietnam.

Quacquarelli Symonds has just announced the QS World University Rankings 2021 (QS WUR 2021). Vietnam continues to have two higher education institutions featured in this ranking, namely Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) and Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM).