Building a digital higher education model is an inevitable development trend of private universities in Vietnam. Developing a digital higher education model is also a step forward for private universities in Vietnam to approach higher education in the world. Building a digital university model will help private universities in Vietnam shift from imparting knowledge to developing learners' capacity, increasing self-study ability, creating learning opportunities anytime, anywhere, personalizing learning, contributing to creating a learning society and lifelong learning. In this article, the author have summarized and systematized theoretical and practical issues on the digital higher education model in private universities in Vietnam in the period of national digital transformation and building a digital university model today. The author also focused on in-depth analysis of the basic elements of the digital higher education model, the need to build a digital higher education model at private universities in Vietnam, to solve the challenges of the digital human resources era. The digital higher education model is always "three no's and one yes". The three no's will be: there will be no lecture halls, no hard copy learning materials, no permanent lecturers and the one yes will be: the highest quality will be achieved in the least amount of time.