Harvard to establish university in Vietnam
The U.S. State Department has granted Harvard $2.5 million to transition a University-run public policy program in Vietnam into the country’s first independent, non-profit, U.S.-affiliated university in Ho Chi Minh City.
The planned school—Fulbright University Vietnam—will expand on the existing Fulbright Economics Teaching Program, a public policy master’s program established in 1994 with the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City. FETP has also received partial funding from the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
The new university, expected to launch in September 2016, will encompass three schools—a school of public policy and management, a school of engineering and applied sciences, and a liberal arts-style Fulbright College. It plans to enroll its first class of master’s students in public policy and management in fall 2016, according to Elaine Clayton, a spokesperson for the State Department.
Source: The Harvard Crimson
