The US-funded Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) has brought 467Vietnamese postgraduates to study in the United States under itsscholarship programme over the last ten years.
Thefigure was announced at a ceremony to mark the foundation’s 10-yearoperation held at Nha Trang University in central Khanh Hoa province onJune 15.
According to VEF’s ExecutiveDirector, Lynne McNamara, the Vietnamese research students were sent to92 leading US universities.
Among 215 peoplegraduated from US universities, 152 received PhD degrees and 63 got MAdegrees. As many as 58 people returned to work in Vietnam aftergraduation.
All Vietnamese students chosen for thescholarship are considered capable of studying diligently and activelyinvolving themselves in their new communities.
VEFis a US Congressional initiative run by the US Government. It aims tosend an increasing number of Vietnamese postgraduate students to studyin the US in order to enhance education exchanges between the twocountries.-VNA