He went on to say that many Vietnamese universities hadn't used Google Scholar and this was one of the reasons for the drop in rankings. Top 10 Vietnamese universitiesIn the ranking for the second quarter announced on July 29, Vietnam National University in Hanoi, Can Tho University and Hanoi University of Science and Technology led the pack of Vietnamese universities. Vietnam has eight universities in South East Asia’s top 100 universities according to the latest report from Webometrics, however, many of them have dropped in the rankings. Pham Hung Hiep, post-graduate student at Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, said Vietnamese ranking dropped because Webometrics had changed its calculating method. Vietnam National University in Hanoi's ranking dropped from 26th to 29th.

Source: VietNamNet News August 01, 2016 09:00 UTC