Pursuing tertiary education is an exciting and rewarding experience for young people in Vietnam. It lays the foundation for their future life. It is a chance for them to meet new friends, to discover new interests, and for many, to live independently away from home for the first time. In 1955, the BLAO National College of Agriculture was established at Bao Loc, Lam Dong province which set up the milestones for developing present Nong Lam University (NLU), Hochiminh city. Throughout its 55 years’ history, NLU has been playing an important role in education, extension, dissemination of scientific technologies in Vietnam with its pursuit of academic excellence and commitment to country innovation and creativity. In NLU, we put students at the center of all services and work hard to develop a favorable learning environment essential for all students to develop their full potential. In the long term, the 118-hectare main campus of NLU will be fully used for academic, research and technical transfer purposes. The range of our research activities is immense and extends across all faculties and departments. NLU has strong relationship with other universities with exchange education programs and research projects, and has close relationships with universities in ASEAN countries. NLU will focus on the training internationally qualified professionals and experts in different disciplines in creative friendly education space, strengthening the link universities/institutes - private entrepreneurs – communities and orienting research towards the economic improvement and sustainable natural resource conservation of Vietnam.