In 2000, she returned to Hanoi and attended the United Nations International School.
Currently, she is a student at a small college in the faculty of International Relations, Switzerland.
Ngo Phuong Lan can speak Vietnamese, English, French.
In the question and answer part during the competition of Miss World Vietnamese 2007, she won the prize for the most intelligent answer about why charity work is often involved with beauty pageants, by saying that kindness is also a form of beauty.
Ngo Phuong Lan has declined the invitation to represent Vietnam at Miss World 2007 due to her studies in Switzerland.