[4] A year later, dean of external relations at the SC Johnson College of Business Professor Rohit Verma was appointed to be the founding provost of VinUni in April 2018.

[5] Along with the creation of strategic partnership with Cornell and UPenn, Vingroup also proceeded with the administrative and physical foundations for the VinUni Project by successfully applying for an approvals of establishment and operation by the Government of Vietnam in March 2018 and December 2019 respectively,[2][6] and beginning the construction of the VinUni campus in November 2018.

[9][10][11] VinUniversity Campus is located next to Vinhomes Ocean Park - a 420-ha residential area newly established by Vingroup in Gia Lâm District of Hanoi.

After the ground-breaking ceremony in November 2018, it took Vingroup only one year and two months to complete the first phase of the campus over an area of 230,000 square metres (56.83 acres) at a cost of around 6,500 billion VND.

In this initial phase, the 24/7 library of VinUni has a total area of 4,000 square metres (43,055.64 sq ft), which is sufficient for around 1,000 students concurrently.