Vingroup commits up to $372 million in funding for VinUni

With an ambitious vision of becoming one of the world’s top 100 universities, VinUni implementing its phase two based on two core pillars: enhancing academic and research infrastructure to international standards and strengthening academic capacity to meet global benchmarks. The university will focus on five strategic research domains, including AI and robotics; health sciences; environmental intelligence; intelligent computing and data science; and policy development and sustainable societies.

Approximately $60 million will be allocated to expanding the campus, including new auditoriums, dormitories, sports facilities, and cutting-edge laboratories. Student enrolment will increase from 1,500 to 5,000, nearly half of whom will be postgraduate students – laying the foundation for VinUni's evolving research-intensive environment.

A highlight of this expansion is the establishment of the VinUni Industry, Innovation and Research Complex on campus – an integrated research centre that will house advanced technology laboratories, incubation for university-industry partnership, and a 1,000-seat international conference centre. The facility is expected to regularly host over 600 scientists.

At this complex, private sector research and development experts, including from Vingroup subsidiaries, such as VinFast, Vinmec, VinBigData, VinRobotics, and VinMotion, will collaborate with VinUni faculty members and students in co-innovation studios. Together, they will develop high-impact, application-oriented research with strong commercialisation potential, fuelled by an entrepreneurial mindset.

In parallel, VinUni will strengthen international academic partnerships with leading institutions such as Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania in the US, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, as well as with leading Vietnamese universities. These partnerships will facilitate the formation of interdisciplinary RISE (Research, Innovation, Sustainability, and Excellence) research clusters, aimed at creating high-impact scholarly publications and tackling pressing issues at both the local and global levels.

To strengthen academic capacity, the institution is launching the 'VinUni 500' initiative to recruit 500 top-tier scholars and researchers, including 10 high-calibre academic leaders, 200 research-focused faculties, 200 early-career researchers, and 100 affiliated faculties.

To attract these scholars, VinUni will offer globally competitive remuneration and support packages. For instance, all faculty will receive a personal development grant of up to approximately $6,000 annually, and noteworthy researchers may access seed funding of up to approximately $230,000.

Besides forging research and teaching excellence, VinUni 500 serves as a bridge connecting the Vietnamese academics with international scholars as well as world-class scientists from the VinFuture Prize network – fostering impactful, cross-border research collaborations.

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