After more than 54 years of development, Can Tho University is not only a unit training high quality human resources, but also a research and transfer facility for science and technology in the Mekong Delta region and the whole country. For the period of  2012-2019, the university's students have implemented 700 scientific research projects, with a total budget of nearly 11.5 billion VND.

Most of the projects have high applicability, winning many scientific research awards at all levels, such as Vietnam Young Science Talents; Holcim Prize (later renamed Insee Prize). This year, through the evaluation of the professional subcommittees, the school has selected 16 out of 29 scientific research projects of valuable students to award the "Scientific Research Student ” of Can Tho University.

At the Sciencetific Research Student Conference 2020 organized by the Can Tho University, representatives of authors and author groups of award-winning projects shared useful research results. For example, the project "Improving the application of university entrance examination admissions on Android", implemented by students from the Faculty of Information Technology and Communications. The objective of the project is to develop mobile applications to support the school's admissions counseling more effectively, with the functions: providing intuitive, easy-to-find admissions information on smartphones and individual data of user-supplied information and etc. Tran Van Ngoan, representative of the author group, said that every year, tens of thousands of candidates enroll in the school and most use smartphones, the research team implements this project to help candidates access the enrollment information of the school is easy and fast, and at the same time saves the effort and expense of the school's admissions consultancy. Currently, the application has integrated some additional features, such as voice input in the Chatbot section, allowing users to contact advice via facebook or hotline and etc.

Research project on "Development of ultra-light foam concrete bricks from a mixture of fly ash and fine-grained blast furnace slag", implemented by a group of Technology students towards recycling and reusing waste sources from industrial activities in Vietnam with huge backlog. The finished bricks meet the technical requirements according to Vietnamese standards and can be applied well in some items of construction works. According to the authors, each year Vietnam's thermal and iron and steel manufacturing plants generate more than 20 million tons of fly ash and finely ground blast furnace slag; Most of this waste still has no effective treatment.

The project aims to make full use of the above sources to reduce environmental pollution; at the same time solve the problem of scarcity of construction materials. According to Pham Van Hien, a representative of the group, ultralight foam concrete bricks help fast construction, good sound and thermal insulation, which helps reduce energy costs, thereby significantly reducing the total construction cost. In addition, Vietnam has many soft-ground areas, especially the Mekong Delta, so the use of ultra-light foam concrete will be effective in reducing the work load, consistent with soft ground conditions.