VNU-Hanoi rose 97 places to 661st in the world in the Webometrics rankings for January 2023.

Webometrics is a ranking that evaluates the digital transformation capacity and international publication excellence on the Scopus and Google Scholar systems of higher education institutions worldwide.
The ranking criteria include:
- The Impact index (Level of influence) has a weight of 50%, measuring the spread of the website and digital resources of the higher education institution.
- The Excellence Index, weighted at 40%, measures the 10% most cited articles in 27 Scopus publishing fields.
- The Openness Index (Academic Openness) has a weight of 10%, measuring the number of citations of the top 310 authors of higher education institutions on the Google Scholar system.
Below are the rankings of higher education institutions in Vietnam as of January 2023:

(Source:https://www.webometrics.info/en/Asia/Vietnam)

In the January 2023 ranking, VNU continued to increase its ranking, up 97 places compared to the August 2022 ranking - in the top 700 in the world, 137th in Asia and 11th in Southeast Asia. In this ranking, Webometrics still maintains the same ranking method as in August 2022. Specifically, the Visibility criterion has the highest weight (50%), followed by the Excellence criterion with a weight of 40% and the Transperency criterion with a weight of 10%. However, in this ranking, the Transperency criterion measures the number of citations of the top 310 authors of higher education institutions on the Google Scholar system instead of the top 210 authors as in previous rankings.

In this ranking, the remarkable increase in the Visibility criterion - from 656th in August 2022 to 431st in January 2023 - has shown an increase in the scope of influence of the online digital resource system and VNU website not only on the domestic and international academic community but also strongly impacting the whole society. In 2022, VNU won the QS World University Rankings Recognition of Improvement award for its significant improvement in ranking results based on an improvement in average ranking. This is the first time a Vietnamese higher education institution has received this award.
Regarding the ranking results in 2022, QS has announced the results of the world university rankings - QS World University Rankings 2023 - QS WUR 2023. In which, VNU has been ranked in the top 1,000 universities in the world for the 5th consecutive year according to QS WUR criteria. Regarding the ranking criteria of QS WUR 2023, VNU continues to demonstrate its prestige in academic and recruitment criteria. Also according to QS, VNU is ranked 162nd in Asia, in the group of 21.3% of leading universities in Asia, and ranked 36th in Southeast Asia. In the 6 fields ranked by QS in QS WUR BY SUBJECT 2022 (including: Computer Science & Information Systems in the 501-550 group, Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautics & Manufacturing in the 451-500 group, Mathematics in the 351-400 group, Physics & Astronomy in the 451-500 group, Business & Management Sciences in the 451-500 group and Electrical & Electronics Engineering in the 451-500 group), VNU has 5 fields in the world top 500. Mathematics, Physics & Astronomy and Business & Management Sciences are all ranked No. 1 in Vietnam. Electrical & Electronics Engineering is included in the QS rankings for the first time.
According to the results of Times Higher Education (THE), VNU continues to maintain 4 fields that were ranked in the previous ranking period, including: Computer Science, Social Sciences (both in the 601-800 group); Engineering, Natural Sciences (both in the 801-1000 group). In the 2022 ranking period, VNU has 2 new fields ranked: Business & Economics and Life Sciences (both in the 501-600 group).
Most recently, the US News & World Report magazine has just announced the results of the ranking of the best universities in the world - Best Global Universities. Accordingly, VNU is ranked 970 in the world and 258 in Asia. Notably, among the 13 ranking criteria of US News & World Report, the total number of publications of VNU has a significant increase in ranking, up 59 places compared to the 2022 period. Also in this ranking period, the Engineering field of VNU was ranked 636 for the first time, the Physics field continued to be ranked 664 in the world.