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36 / Our Community
36/ Our Community
Agencies Aiding Vietnamese
Students’ Scholarship Hunt
Vietnamese students are turning to agencies to
secure scholarships for overseas studies.
By Chloe Nguyen
To realise her dream to study This fee is 7.9 million Vietnam- a HK$1,033,012 (US $132,000)
abroad, Nguyễn Hương Trà* has to ese dong (US $318.25), which is 12 scholarship in total.
rely on an agency to help with her times the average monthly salary
university admission and scholar- in Vietnam in 2023, according to “Studying abroad has always
ship. figures from the Statista Research been my childhood dream because
Department. I want to go to school in a devel-
“My family spent 100 million oped country and experience dif-
Vietnamese dong (US $4,028) But the return was good, she ferent cultures,” the business-ma-
for a one-on-one mentoring ser- followed the advice given to her jor student says.
vice for me to apply to nine U.S. and was admitted to Gettysburg
colleges,”she says. College in December 2022 with The first-year student says the
