On 3rd of September, 2019, the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) announced the results of university rankings by field of study (Field rankings) in 2019. Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU) has three fields of study which ranked 641 to 679 in the world as follows:
- Information & Computing Sciences: ranked 641
- Mathematical Sciences: ranked 652
- Engineering: ranked 679
In particular, TDTU is the only representative of Vietnam to be ranked by URAP in Information Science and Computer Sciences field.
URAP is the world's prestigious university ranking organization, which has an evaluation method based primarily on academic performance, in which the quantity and quality of scientific publications play the most crucial role.
The ranking data was collected from Web of Sciences based on the criteria: the total number of indexed articles, the total number of citations, the impact factor of the journals and the international cooperation network.
In the 2019 ranking period, URAP has ranked 61 fields of 3,000 universities in the world, of which 5 have the presence of Vietnamese universities. In this ranking, TDTU has the most ranked fields of all Vietnamese universities; and most of them are high positions.
Previously, on November 2018, URAP had announced the overall university ranking results, Vietnam had 07 higher education institutions ranked in this table, and TDTU is ranked 2nd in Vietnam and 1,422 in the world.
Reference: https://www.urapcenter.org/Rankings/2018-2019/fields
