In the July 2019 ranking, Cybermetrics Lab announced the second Webometrics ranking of 2019.

Accordingly, VNU continues to be the first higher education institution in Vietnam with a ranking of 1013 in the world, an increase of nearly 80 places compared to the ranking of 1090 in the announcement of January 2019. In particular, for the first time, the index of digital resources (Presence) ranked 38th in the world. This has seen a strong investment in the development of digital resources for training and research as well as administration of VNU.

In the Asian regional ranking published in October 2018, VNU rose to position 124^th, in the group of 25% in the region. Regarding the ranking trend, since 2014, VNU has improved 37 places and always kept the 1^st position in Vietnam in this ranking.