[1] In June 2008, Deputy Prime Ministry Cum Minister for Education and Training, Nguyen Thien Nhan, and the Ministry for French Higher Education and Research, Valérie Pécresse, decided to choose France as the foreign strategic partner of USTH.

2067 of the Prime Minister of Vietnam on 9 December 2009, USTH was established and built within the campus of Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park.

In the academic field, the first bachelor and master programs in Advanced Materials Science and Nanotechnology (AMSN) and Pharmacological and Agronomical Biotechnology (PAB) began in October 2010.

1434/QD-TTg approving adjustments to the policy of the USTH project of establishing at Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park.

Starting in 2009, with the guidance and support of the Ministry of Education and Training and the French Embassy in Vietnam, the university sent its first Ph.D. students to study under the USTH Consortium, under the 322 program and the 911 projects.