In recent decades Vietnamese universities have made considerable advances in enhancing the quality of education. These have been achieved through strong support from the Vietnamese government, assistance from international organisations, but more importantly the efforts of the universities themselves. The strategic plan for Human Resources Development for Vietnam from 2011-2020 identifies weaknesses found in university graduates and addresses plans for human resource development. In particular, Vietnamese universities have not been very successful in developing attributes of global citizenship in their graduates. The government’s Human Resources Development plan indicates that an important goal is for four Vietnamese higher education institutes to be able to produce graduates of international standard by 2020. This paper addresses issues relating to human resource development in higher education institutes in Vietnam, especially in the Mekong Delta region. The framework of attributes of global citizenship will be discussed in light of the Vietnamese context. Insightful lessons learned from partnership programs between Can Tho University and The University of Sydney, Australia, and Daegu National University of Education, Korea will be a focus of the paper in order to present possibilities for developing attributes of global citizenship for Vietnamese Universities graduates