Vietnam has 120 higher education institutions in the Webometrics ranking, but only Hanoi National University made it into the top 1,000.

According to the latest announcement from Cybermetrics Lab, the Webometrics ranking for February 2015, Vietnam National University, Hanoi is ranked 20th in Southeast Asia, 212th in Asia, and 894th in the world out of a total of 23,887 higher education institutions participating in the ranking.

The top 10 Vietnamese higher education institutions in the ranking are: Vietnam National University, Hanoi (ranked No. 1 in Vietnam, No. 894 worldwide), Can Tho University (No. 2 in Vietnam, No. 1,790 worldwide), Hanoi Pedagogical University (No. 3 in Vietnam and No. 2,154 worldwide). Following them are the University of Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City University of Agriculture and Forestry, Duy Tan University, Hue University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, International University (Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City), and finally, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City.

Ranked by Asia, Vietnam has Hanoi National University at position 212, Can Tho University at position 551, and Hanoi Pedagogical University at position 699.

In Southeast Asia, the top spot is still held by the National University of Singapore, followed by Kesetsart University (Thailand), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Mahidol University (Thailand), Putra University (Malaysia), Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Chiang Mai University (Thailand), Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia), and the University of Technology Malaysia. Besides the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (ranked 20th), Vietnam also has Can Tho University (ranked 51st), Hanoi National University of Education (ranked 66th), and Da Nang University (ranked 68th).

The top 10 universities in the Asia-Pacific region, in order, are: National Taiwan University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Seoul National University, University of Tokyo, Zhejiang University, University of Melbourne, University of Hong Kong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and finally, the University of New South Wales.

Webometrics rankings are not based solely on website size, traffic, or design, but focus on promoting the electronic publication of research results, documents, and scientific information; and assess the overall quality of higher education institutions' activities as reflected on their websites, especially research results and the number of publications in the Scopus database.

In this ranking, Vietnamese higher education institutions are ranked low mainly due to limitations in academic quality criteria (number of international publications).

According to Vnexpress