Fulbright Vietnamese Student Program -- 2005 Fellowship
FULBRIGHT PROGRAM IN VIETNAM
U.S. Embassy Hanoi
Public Affairs Section
Rose Garden Tower #320
Tel: (04) 831-4580
Fax: (04) 831-4601
2005 FULBRIGHT PROGRAM IN VIETNAM
FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION FOR STUDY IN THE UNITED STATES
The Embassy of the United States of America announces the 2005 Fulbright Fellowship Competition. The Fulbright Program in Vietnam is funded by an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State. The Fulbright Program in Vietnam supports graduate level study in the United States for promising young and mid-career professionals from Vietnam. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 with the goal of achieving mutual understanding through academic and cultural exchange.
The Fulbright Program in Vietnam actively encourages women, minorities, and residents from all provinces to apply. 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. Successful applicants will have all tuition and fees paid for and will receive an annual stipend, round-trip airfare to the United States and health insurance.
The 2005 Fellowship Grantees will attend graduate study programs that
begin in the academic year 2005-2006. Typically, Fulbright fellows complete
their graduate programs in two academic years. The Fulbright Program
will arrange placement at universities in the United States on
the basis of the selected candidates' academic credentials and their
professional goals and abilities.
The Fulbright Program in Vietnam is purely a competitive, merit-based fellowship program. Since beginning here in 1992, there have been over 300 Fulbright fellows who have studied at universities all across the United States. Each year hundreds of individuals apply for twenty to twenty-five fellowships. The strongest applicants are those who draw a close and clear relationship between their current work in Vietnam, the study 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. Priority may be given to those candidates who do not already have a Master's degree.
Fields of consideration for grants include:
American Studies - American Literature - Teaching English to Speakers
of Other Languages (TESOL)
Business (all areas) - Communications - Community/Urban Planning
Economics - Economic Development - Environmental Studies
Fine and Performing Arts - Higher Education Admin. - IT/Information
Systems Mgmt.
International Relations - Journalism - Law
Library Science - Public Administration - Public Health
Public Policy - Social Work - Women's Studies/Gender and Development
All applicants must meet the following minimum criteria:
1. Candidate must be a Vietnamese citizen with single citizenship.
2. Candidate must have resided in Vietnam for the last three consecutive years before submission of application for a Fulbright scholarship.
3. Candidate must have a four-year undergraduate degree from a university recognized by the GVN or an accredited foreign university.
4. Candidate must have three years of experience after undergraduate education.
5. Candidate cannot be a current employee of the U.S. Mission in Vietnam
6. Candidate cannot have earned a Bachelor's degree within the last five years from a U.S. college or university.
To participate in the 2005 Fellowship Competition, applicants must complete and submit two (2) copies of the Preliminary Data Form (PDF) with 2 copies of their university degree(s) by Thursday, April 15, 2004 at 5:00 p.m. Forms received after this deadline will not be considered. Please complete this form using a typewriter or a computer and sign each copy.
After PDF evaluation, qualified candidates will take an Institutional TOEFL exam and will be invited to attend an information session. Candidates scoring above 525 on the TOEFL will be asked to complete the formal Fulbright Fellowship Application. Semifinalists will be interviewed, take the Official TOEFL and the appropriate graduate admission test (GRE or GMAT). The Fulbright Program organizes all testing and issues fee-waiver vouchers.
Copies of this announcement and the Fulbright Preliminary Data Forms can be obtained, free of charge, from the website usembassy.state.gov/posts/vn1/wwwhfbvn.html or:
Fulbright Program in Vietnam
Public Affairs Section
U.S. Embassy Rose Garden Tower
6 Ngoc Khanh, Hanoi
Tel 84-4-831-4580 x 155 Fax 84-4-831-4601
Email: wongm@pd.state.gov
2005 FULBRIGHT PROGRAM in VIETNAM
ACADEMIC FIELDS of STUDY
American Literature: The study of the literature and literary development
of the United States from the Colonial Era to the present. Includes
instruction in period and genre studies, author studies, literary criticism,
and regional and oral traditions.
American Studies: Studies the history, society, politics, culture and economics of the United States and its regions. Includes instruction about majority and minority cultures represented in the U.S.
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL): Studies the principles and practice of teaching English to students who are not proficient in it or who do not speak, read, or write English.
Business (MBA) Concentration areas include:
1. Banking: Prepares individuals to perform a wide variety of customer services in banks and related enterprises. Includes instruction in methods and operations of banking services, customer relations, and business equipment operations.
2. Finance: Prepares individuals to plan, manage and analyze the financial and monetary performance of business enterprises. Includes instruction in accounting, capital planning, portfolio management, and funds acquisition.
3. Management (general): Prepares individuals to plan, organize and direct the operations of an organization. Includes instruction in management theory, human resources management, marketing, business decision-making, accounting and other quantitative methods.
4. Marketing: Prepares individuals to manage the process of developing consumer audiences and moving products from producers to consumers. Includes instruction in buyer behavior, marketing research, cost-volume and profit relationships, sales operations, and consumer relations.
Communications Concentration areas include:
1. Communications (general) Study of the creation, transmission, and evaluation of messages. Provides an overview of several types of communication: individual, mass media, journalism, and broadcasting.
2. Journalism: The study of the methods and techniques for gathering, processing and delivering news. Includes instruction in news writing and editing, reporting, journalism history, research, and professional ethics.
3. Public Relations: The study of the methods and techniques used in communicating image-oriented corporate and sponsor messages to various audiences, promoting client interests, and managing client-media relations.
Community & Urban Planning: Prepares individuals to apply principles of planning and analysis to the development and improvement of communities, urban areas or surrounding regions, including the economic or policy issues related to planning and plan implementation.
Economics: The study of the production, conservation and allocation of resources and the organizational frameworks related to these processes. Includes instruction in economic theory, micro- and macroeconomics, comparative economics and quantitative methods.
Economic Development: The study of sustainable economic development and economic factors affecting the growth of developing nations. Includes instruction in growth models, inequality and poverty, education, agriculture, and urbanization.
Environmental Health: Prepares specialists to monitor environmental health hazards and to manage environmental health programs. Includes instruction in environmental and genetic toxicology, biohazard research, and testing and evaluation procedures.
Environmental Studies: The study of the biological and physical aspects of the environment. Includes instruction on the effects of human activities on the environment as well as methods for controlling environmental pollution and other problems.
Fine and Performing Arts: Prepares creative artists in the visual and plastic media. Includes instruction in the traditional fine arts (drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking) and/or modern media (ceramics, textiles, intermedia, photography); theory of art; color theory; composition and perspective; anatomy; managing a studio; and art portfolio marketing.
Higher Education Administration: The study of the principles and practices of administration in colleges, universities, and higher education systems. Includes instruction in higher education finance, faculty relations, student services and institutional research.
IT/Information Systems Management Prepares individuals to develop and
manage data systems and related facilities for processing and retrieving
internal information in organizations. Includes instruction in management
control systems, computer facilities, operations analysis and
accounting systems, as well as the training of organizational personnel
in the use and operation of the information systems and the continuing
life cycle management of information systems.
International Relations: The study of international politics and institutions and the conduct of diplomacy and foreign policy. Includes instruction in foreign policy analysis, national security, international law, and the comparative study of specific countries and regions.
Journalism: See Communications. Law (LL.M or Master of Laws) A one year degree program for candidates who have competed their first degree in Law. The curriculum includes the study of a variety of legal topics in the American legal system. A key element is the instruction of the common/case law system used in the U.S. The majority of LL.M participants are international students seeking an understanding of the theory, history and application of laws in the U.S. Areas of specialization include: International Trade, Tax, Environmental, and Human Rights.
Library Science: Includes instruction in the knowledge and skills required to develop, organize, store, retrieve, administer and facilitate the use of collections of information in formats such as books, manuscripts, filmed and recorded materials, and electronic sources.
Public Administration: Prepares individuals to serves as managers in the executive arms of local, state and federal governments. Includes instruction in administrative law, public personnel management, professional ethics and research methods.
Public Health: Prepares specialists to monitor and evaluate potential and actual health hazards, and to plan and manage environment health programs. Includes instruction in biohazard research, health regulations, toxicology, and testing and evaluation methods.
Public Policy: Prepares individuals to analyze, manage and deliver public programs and services. Includes instruction in the management of public policy, policy formation, resource allocation, statistical methods, and cost/benefit analysis.
Social Work -- Prepares individuals for social welfare administration and counseling, including the study of organized means of providing basic support services for vulnerable individuals. Covers social welfare policy, casework planning, and intervention strategies.
Women's Studies/Gender & Development: The study of the historical, social, political, cultural, and economic perspectives of gender relations and/or women throughout the course of history. Particular emphasis is given to the changes in women's roles during the last 40 years.
This list may not include the field you wish to study. If that is the
case, please contact the Fulbright Office at the Public Affairs Section
of the U.S. Embassy Hanoi (04-831-4580; e-mail: wongm@pd.state.gov)
to discuss your specific interest.
Most definitions adapted from Index of Majors and Graduate Degrees,
The College Board, New York, NY, 1998.