Pre-Departure Info Administered and coordinated through the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, the Vietnamese Scholar Program works with appropriate organizations as well as with individual scholars to recruit and select qualified candidates for placement by CIES as lecturers and researchers in American universities. A maximum of six scholars from Vietnam travel to the United States with the Vietnamese Scholar Program on an annual basis. Participants in the Vietnamese Scholar Program are provided with a stipend and living expenses for the full term of the grant.
Typical grants range from three months to one year.
Participants are also provided with transportation to and from the United States and participants are eligible to apply for further travel grants to cover additional research not covered by the main grant. All participants in the Vietnamese Scholar Program must hold a Ph.D. degree. The Vietnamese Scholar Program is open to all candidates who qualify through open competition on the basis of academic and professional merit, without regard to race, religion, gender or affiliation. The Fulbright Program sends a grant announcement to universities throughout Vietnam every year. A peer review panel is then convened to select candidates who are distinguished by their academic prominence, possess potential for becoming key figures in their fields, and whose research topic or methodology is creative.