VNU continuously promoted its innovation and creativity, pioneering major challenging educational tasks, which unlocked the great creative capacity of VNU’s staff and promoted its scientists’ wisdom and enthusiasm – an invaluable asset for creating VNU’s strength and energy for development.

The opening of new and pilot disciplines and specializations is both a mission and an essential need of advanced, multi-disciplinary universities like VNU in the process of continuous development and international integration.

In 2020, VNU issued 10 new pilot training programs, namely 7 undergraduate programs (5 programs of VNU University of Science: Natural Resources and Environment Monitoring Technologies, Data Science, Food Science and Technology, Electronic and Informatics Engineering, Urban and Real Estate Development Management; 1 program, History and Geography Pedagogy of VNU University of Education; 1 program, Marketing and Communication of VNU Hanoi School of Business and Management); 2 master’s programs:  Administration of Press and Communication of VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Heritage Studies of VNU School of Interdisciplinary Studies); and 1 doctorate program: Climate Change and Sustainable Development of VNU School of Interdisciplinary Studies.

VNU always encourages its member units to develop high quality training programs including those according to Circular 23/2014/TT-BGDĐT and those developed based on their respective specificity. The development of high quality training programs aims to train high quality human resources for domestic and international labour markets as well as to adapt to social requirements in the process of integration and globalization. In addition, the expansion of the training scale of these programs helped increase financial resources for VNU’s member units, serving sustainable development goals in line with the State’s direction toward autonomy for higher education institutions.

15 new majors were opened in 2020.