"Promoting social progress" is the idea that the world's top universities pursue. This is also the mission committed by VNUHCM.

Vision

VNUHCM aims to build a university system in the top of Asia, a university for the convergence of Vietnam's  science, technology, culture and knowledge.

Mission

VNUHCM is a home for talented lectures and talented students where high-quality human resources are trained, key scientific researches are created; it is also one of the pioneers in important innovations and contributions to the national development, promoting the social progress.

VNUHCM is governed, operated and managed under the model of exemplary university system with a high autonomy mechanism and a high level of self-responsibility to society in combination with its self-controlling and building an environment for scientific creativity, academic freedom within an exemplary university