VinUni's phase 2 strategy focuses on two pillars: Developing academic - research infrastructure and Enhancing the academic human resources team according to international standards, with the orientation of developing 5 strategic research areas including: AI and Robotics, Medicine and Health Technology, Smart Urban and Environment, Big Data - High-performance accounting, Policy and Sustainable Development.
Regarding infrastructure development, Vingroup Corporation committed to investing VND9,300 billion in VinUni in the new period. Of which, 1,500 billion VND is spent on expanding the campus, building lectures, dormitories, sports areas and modern laboratory systems. The training scale will increase from 1,500 to 5,000 students, with nearly 50% being postgraduate students - the core force for the scientific research ecosystem.

In particular, VinUni will form the Industrial Research and Innovation Complex - a research center integrating high-tech laboratories, university - enterprise cooperation space and 1,000-seat international conference hall, regularly gathering more than 600 scientists.
This is where R&D experts of the corporate ecosystem, especially from VinFast, Vinmec, VinBig Data, VinRobotics, VinMotion... will work with VinUni lecturers and students to form co-innovation studios, focusing on highly applied research, rapid commercialization and entrepreneurship.
Along with on-site clusters, VinUni will cooperate with prestigious universities around the world such as Cornell, Pennsylvania, Nanyang University of Technology (Singapore) ... and prestigious universities in Vietnam to develop interdisciplinary research clusters (RISE research clusters), aiming to publish high-quality academics and solve major national challenges.
Regarding improving academic human resources, VinUni launched the "VinUni 500" program - recruiting 500 outstanding scientists and lecturers worldwide, especially Vietnamese scientists working abroad. The list of invited recruitment includes: 10 International Science Directors, 200 prestigiously announced lecturers and researchers, 200 post-doctoral scholars and 100 associate lecturers.

To invite scholars, VinUni will apply a treatment policy equivalent to that of good universities in the world, with a personal career development fund of up to 150 million VND per year and a research seed funding fund of up to 6 billion VND for each excellent scientist.
In addition to the goal of improving the quality of research and teaching for students - the VinUni 500 program has the role of connecting the Vietnamese scholarship network with the overseas Vietnamese scholarship network and scholars from the VinFuture Prize where outstanding global minds gather to create a breakthrough force for substantial and impactful research cooperation activities.
Dr. Le Mai Lan, Chairman of the Board of VinUni School, shared that VinUni is not just a university, but a vision of creating a talented generation for the future. We believe that with the policy of attracting talent to build internal resources; collaborating with domestic and international scientists, making the most of the support from the business ecosystem - VinUni will actively contribute to the national strategy in the era of national growth".

Originating from the aspiration to create a world-class university right in Vietnam, after 5 years of development, VinUni has gradually become a symbol of entrepreneurship, speed, quality and global academic cooperation relationships. The school has become the youngest university to achieve a comprehensive 5-star QS certification at the fastest speed in the world, gradually affirming its position in the international higher education community.
Details about the VinUni 500 program: https://legacyofexcellence.vinuni.edu.vn