[2][3][4] Viby Gymnasium resulted from the planning stages of the 1970 Danish Municipal Reform.

[5] The school was named Viby Amtsgymnasium (English: Viby County Gymnasium) until the municipal reform of 2007 disbanded the Danish counties and it changed name to Viby Gymnasium og HF in reference to the two main study programmes offered.

The Matriculation examination (STX) programme is divided into four programmes; natural sciences, social sciences, linguistics and music each with a range of elective choices.

In 2006, the school started offering Chinese for the first time along the common languages typically seen in Danish high schools such as English, German, French og Spanish.

In Denmark, Chinese is taught at a total of 29 secondary educational institutions altogether.