Decree 179/2026/ND-CP is anticipated to encourage examine in primary sciences, engineering, and strategic applied sciences, supporting high-quality workforce development.
Opportunities for breakthrough development
Under Decree 179, the scholarship policy will take impact on September 1, 2026, and applies to college students admitted from 2025 onwards. Beneficiaries embody full-time undergraduate, engineering, grasp’s, and doctoral college students in primary sciences, key engineering fields, and strategic technology disciplines.
Specifically, college students in expertise packages will obtain a month-to-month scholarship of VND5.5 million (US$209) for ten months per educational yr. Students majoring in semiconductor microchips and primary sciences will obtain VND4.2 million (US$160) monthly, whereas these in key engineering and strategic technology fields will obtain VND3.7 million (US$141) monthly. For postgraduate college students, month-to-month help ranges from VND6.3 million (US$239) to VND7.4 million (US$281), whereas doctoral candidates will obtain between VND7.4 million (US$281) and VND8.4 million (US$319) monthly.
From the angle of academic establishments, Associate Professor Dr. Phan Hong Hai, Rector of Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry, acknowledged that Decree 179 serves as an vital authorized framework to draw proficient college students into key engineering and strategic technology fields.
Currently, based mostly on the decree’s standards, the college has 16 undergraduate packages, 9 grasp’s packages, and 7 doctoral packages eligible for this help policy. Once applied, the policy is anticipated to draw extra proficient learners, contributing to human resource development and supporting the college’s technique to boost coaching high quality and scientific analysis.
According to Associate Professor Dr. Bui Hoai Thang, Head of Training at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology below Vietnam National University – HCMC, changing into a robust analysis college requires not solely wonderful lecturers but additionally excellent college students taking part in analysis throughout all ranges of training.
He famous that Decree 179 creates favorable circumstances for constructing such a expertise pool. This shouldn’t be solely a scholarship policy for learners but additionally an funding in the way forward for universities. For the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, the decree will present further momentum to speed up its development into a number one analysis college within the area, able to driving analysis and mastering strategic nationwide applied sciences.
Decree 179 is taken into account a extremely vital strategic policy within the context of Vietnam getting into a brand new development part, the place science and technology, innovation, and high-quality human sources are recognized as key progress drivers. In current years, basic disciplines corresponding to arithmetic, physics, and chemistry have been acknowledged as foundational fields, but they’ve confronted difficulties in attracting college students.
Decree 179 doesn’t view primary sciences as remoted fields however locations them in an natural relationship with science, technology, and strategic industries. Without sturdy arithmetic, it’s troublesome to develop superior AI capabilities; with out strong condensed matter physics and supplies science, sustainable development of semiconductors and quantum applied sciences is unlikely, mentioned Associate Professor Dr. Phan Thanh Binh, former Chairman of the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children.
He added that the decree will encourage universities to speculate extra strongly in core disciplines, develop interdisciplinary packages, and construct sturdy analysis teams as an alternative of merely following short-term labor market calls for. To guarantee effectiveness, scholarships have to be accompanied by high-quality lecturers, trendy laboratories, and a robust educational surroundings. This will assist universities sustainably strengthen their endogenous scientific and technological capability.
Representatives from universities with strengths in primary sciences, technology and engineering, such because the University of Science below Vietnam National University – HCMC, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education and Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology below Vietnam National University – HCMC, famous that Decree 179 will enhance admissions effectivity and assist regulate human sources in engineering and pure science fields.
The decree is seen as an answer to a long-standing paradox: whereas many engineering and technology fields face extreme expertise shortages, they continue to be troublesome to enroll college students. The policy is anticipated to proactively direct younger expertise towards key sectors, serving to stability human sources in strategic industries.
By Thanh Hung- Translated by Huyen Huong