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VinUniversity Annual Report AY 20-21

PRESIDENT'S

MESSAGE

VinUniversity is the first private, not-for-profit
Vietnamese university established according to Dear beloved parents, faculty members, and students,
international standards. The university was built in
close collaboration with leading US universities such I am very proud of all the amazing things we have achieved together in our
as Cornell University and University of Pennsylvania, very first academic year. We are all founding members of VinUniversity. It is
and welcomed its first official cohort of 230 students a rare opportunity to be able to join and build a world class university from
in 2020. scratch.
The university consists of 3 main colleges and 1 faculty, Last year was a take-off year – next year we will fly.
namely:
We will bring more international academic partnerships and exchange
• College of Business and Management programs, more international faculty members and students to our Hanoi
• College of Engineering and Computer Science campus. We will also start welcoming postgraduate students, focus on
• College of Health Sciences empowering entrepreneurial spirit amongst students, and invest more in
• Faculty of Arts and Sciences research facilities and activities. We will do everything we can to get the
global recognition and respect that we long for.
VinUniversity aspires to be a world-class research
university by meeting the highest standards set I genuinely appreciate every contribution of our Provost, Vice Provost,
by the world’s leading accreditation and ranking Deans, faculty members, staff, students and parents to this very challenging
organizations, such as ABET, AACSB, Quacquarelli journey to groom our next generation leaders. Let’s show the world what
Symonds (QS), and Times Higher Education (THE). we can do, and that we are not just any university, we are VinUniversity. Our
The mission of VinUniversity is to educate and groom mission is to develop talents of the future, who dare to make changes and
future Vietnamese and global leaders, who will create improvements for society and for themselves, for our country and for
work relentlessly to improve economic and welfare the world.
conditions and to make lasting impacts on the world.
Le Mai Lan, PhD
President, VinUniversity