The Fulbright Program was established by the U.S. Congress in 1946 and gives to the presidentially appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board the responsibility for establishing program policy guidelines and for making final selection of all Fulbright participants. The purpose of the Fulbright Program worldwide is “to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by means of educational and cultural exchange.” The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs (ECA) is the principal administrator of the Fulbright Program. Bi-national commissions, composed equally of U.S. and partner-country citizens, coordinate Fulbright Programs in fifty-one of the 140 participating countries. In countries where there are no Fulbright commissions, U.S. Embassy/PAS officers at U.S. Missions abroad are responsible for overseas program administration and coordination.
The Fulbright Program in Vietnam, administered and coordinated by the Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, works with appropriate Vietnamese and American educational and governmental organizations to provide opportunities for study and research in the social sciences and humanities to all candidates who qualify through open competition on the basis of academic and professional merit, without regard to race, religion, gender or affiliation.
Vietnamese Fulbright Scholar Program 2008
The Fulbright Program in Vietnam begins its recruitment for qualified candidates for the 2008 Vietnamese Scholar Program. The Vietnamese Scholar Program (VSP), one of the four traditional components of the Fulbright Program in Vietnam, provides grants to Vietnamese scholars to lecture and/or research at American institutions or universities for three months up to nine months.
Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2007
For more information click here for English version, click here for Vietnamese version.
FULBRIGHT PROGRAM IN VIETNAM
2008 VIETNAMESE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
March 2, 2007 Preliminary Application Deadline
The Fulbright Program in Vietnam supports graduate level study towards a Master’s degree in the United States for promising young and mid-career professionals from Vietnam. Started in 1992, the Program seeks to achieve mutual understanding between the U.S. and Vietnam through academic and culture exchange.
Successful applicants will:
- Have all tuition and fees paid for and will receive a monthly stipend, round-trip airfare to the United States, and health insurance.
attend graduate study programs that begin in the academic year 2008-2009. The fellowship supports study towards a Master’s degree in the social sciences or humanities.
- Participate in a competitive, open, merit-based fellowship program. Each year hundreds of individuals apply for 20 fellowships.
- Draw a clear and close relationship between the work they do now in Vietnam, the program they hope to pursue in the U.S., and the value of their U.S. education to their future work in Vietnam and to the promotion of bilateral mutual understanding.
Candidates may be employed by or affiliated with: private, international, or state-owned companies, universities, the Vietnamese government, or international or Vietnamese non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Selection will be based on academic and professional merit, without regard to race, religion, or gender.
For more information about the 2008 Fulbright Vietnamese Student Competition, please visit our website: http://vietnam.usembassy.gov/fvst.html
If you have questions, please contact Ms. Jessy Needham, Fulbright Program Officer, U.S. Embassy Hanoi, at email address: needhamjc@state.gov.
Nation-wide Fulbright Student Program Info Sessions
For more information about the 2008 Vietnamese Student Program, please attend an information session in one of the following cities:
Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, An Giang, Can Tho, Da Lat, and Vinh. The schedule and all related program information is on the website: http://hanoi.usembassy.gov/fvst.html
