The State of Vietnam attaches great importance to international cooperation in education so as to get wider access to the world’s progress in education and training.

The Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam has founded international cooperation with 69 countries, 19 international organizations and 70 NGOs. Through international cooperation, Vietnam has established new directions for training and conducting and application of scientific research in the fields of basic sciences, social sciences and humanities, economic, agro-forestry, electronic-telecommunication, automation, medicine and environment. Annually, thousands of students, interns and research students are dispatched abroad with scholarships and financial aid provided by many countries such as the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, the EU, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, India, Thailand, the U.S.A and Canada.

Currently, self-financed studying abroad and on-the-spot training (in Vietnam) are two popular forms of cooperation among universities and institutes of Vietnam and foreign partners with an aim to train Vietnamese students. Some renowned training centers have been established in Vietnam such as the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the France-Vietnam Center, Vietnam – Singapore Training Center and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology of Australia (RMIT).