Nearly 4 in 10 of the more than 10,000 Vietnamese students who took the SAT in 2025 sent their scores to universities at home, Haike Zhao, a deputy director in the College Board's international division, told a July 4 seminar on U.S. higher education co-hosted with IIG Vietnam.
In 2021, when about 2,100 students sat the test, only 4% did.
That year, 86% of Vietnamese test-takers sent scores to American universities. Four years later, the College Board, which owns the SAT, counts seven Vietnamese universities among the 10 that receive the most scores from the country's students.
Those seven drew 34% of all submissions, and the top five destinations were domestic: the National Economics University, Foreign Trade University, Vietnam National University - Hanoi, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, and the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.
Rounding out the top 10 are the University of South Florida (U.S.), Thuongmai (Commerce) University (Hanoi), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (VNU-HCM), University of Florida (U.S.), and University of Massachusetts Amherst (U.S.).
