MILESTONES
| 1956 | Establishment of Hanoi Polytechnic University/Hanoi University of Technology |
| 1956 | First Cohort, consisting of 848 students of 14 majors from 04 cross-faculties (Mechanics/Electricity, Mining/Metallurgy, Civil Engineering and Chemistry/Food) |
| 1960 | Inauguration of the new campus on the grounds of the Indochina Boarding School |
| 1966 | Separation of Civil Engineering and Mining/Metallurgy faculties into the National University of Civil Engineering and the University of Mining and Geology |
| 1976 | First graduation ceremony of PhD students |
| 1992 | First cohort of high qualified engineer academic programs |
| 2007 | Approval of Master Development Plan |
| 2009 | Establishment of BKHoldings – the first Vietnamese university enterprise |
| 2011 | ISO 9001-2008 certificate for administration system |
| 2016 | #1 in Vietnam by SCImago |
| 2016 | One of the first autonomous universities in Vietnam |
| 2017 | Recognition as an accredited higher education institution by the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES - France) |
| 2020 | #301-400 for universities offering engineering and technology subjects (World University Rankings) |