Tra Vinh University named in 2020 World’s Universities with Real Impact rankings
Tra Vinh University was the only university in Vietnam named among the Top 100 World’s Universities with Real Impact (WURI) rankings for 2020, the university reported on June 15.
Tra Vinh (VNA) - Tra Vinh University was the only university in Vietnam namedamong the Top 100 World’s Universities with Real Impact (WURI) rankings for2020, the university reported on June 15.
It ranked86th in the WURI ranking for 2020 and was 24th among the 50 best universitiesin startup and innovative values during a recent virtual conference held by theHanseatic League of Universities (HLU).
The WURIranking is a new system that measures universities’ performance in creatingreal values in society.
Itfocuses on industrial applications rather than the traditional means ofcounting research papers and lecture-type teaching; value-creating startups andentrepreneurship rather than a traditional focus on the number of jobs filled;social responsibility, ethics and integrity; and student mobility and opennessfor exchange and collaboration between schools and across national borders.
Directorof Tra Vinh University, Associate Professor and Dr Pham Tiet Khanh, said it willcontinue to improve its contribution to society in the future.
It willalso provide opportunities for students to gain better access to recruiters andfurther bolster international student exchanges to allow students to study in amulticultural environment and sharpen their professional and foreign languageskills, he said.
Tra VinhUniversity has more than 1,200 lecturers and about 20,000 students in 59undergraduate and 33 post-graduate courses across a wide range of fields, fromagriculture-fisheries, engineering-technology, healthcare, foreign languages, andculture to economics-law, chemistry, and public management.
It is anofficial member of University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific./.
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