Program 165, Vietnam - UOW Research Scholarship Program

The Monitoring Office of Program 165 of the Central Communist Party Committee of Vietnam (Progam 165) and University of Wollongong (UOW), are jointly offering postgraduate research scholarships to qualified students from Vietnam seeking high quality research training.

Up  to ten (10) PhD scholarships will be provided per year scholarships per year to qualified candidates acceptable to UOW in research areas agreed with Program 165, the student concerned, and UOW.

Selected Vietnamese students will enrol in a designated program at UOW and undertake research training to complete a Doctorate by Research degree within 3 years.  If the selected Vietnamese students successfully complete the requirements of the designated program and defend their dissertation, they will be conferred degrees from UOW.

The University of Wollongong (UOW)

The UOW is located in Wollongong, which is a multicultural city of 400,000 people. It is located 60 minutes by car or 90 minutes by train, south of Sydney. UOW has over 22,000 students, including 5,000 onshore international students.

UOW has diverse academic offerings from the nine Faculties and two Graduate Schools: Informatics, Engineering, Arts, Education, Science, Creative Arts, Law, Health and Behavioural Sciences, Business and Medicine. UOW is recognised as a leading University via:
• Being placed in the top 2% of Universities in the world by its performance in both the 2009 Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World universities and the Times Higher Education – QS World University Rankings 2008.  
• Received 5 stars for research intensity in The Good Universities Guide, 2009  
• Establishment of the Innovation Campus at North Wollongong at which the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute and the Institute for Superconducting Materials are located.  
• Establishment of the Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) and SMART Infrastructure Facility.

Research Strengths

Applications are encouraged in areas of research strengths at UOW. Our Research Strengths are described at www.uow.edu.au/research/strengths.

Scholarship Amounts

Successful applicants will win a UOW - Program 165 scholarship, which provides a stipend of AUD $18,000 per annum, an International Postgraduate Tuition Award (IPTA) and the cost of the Australian Government approved Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC), for up to 3 years. The stipend will be disbursed to the scholarship student fortnightly, subject to students’ satisfactory progress. 

Application procedure

1. Applicants will apply to The Monitoring Office of Program 165 of the Central Communist Party Committee of Vietnam. Program 165 will provide a letter confirming that the applicant is supported for a UOW-Program 165 Research Scholarship. A copy of this letter must be uploaded with the UOW application. Potential applicants should contact The Monitoring Office of Program 165 of the Central Communist Party Committee of Vietnam for internal Program 165 closing dates.
2. There are two possible intakes of UOW-Program 165 students every year. For the Spring session intake, which has a starting date of July, the Monitoring Office of Program 165 will forward the applications to UOW by 1st March of that year. For the Autumn session intake, which have a starting date of March, the Monitoring Office of Program 165 will forward applications to UOW by 30th September, of the previous year.
3. After receiving the Program 165 support letter, students must then complete the UOW on-line HDR application form available at:
https://smp.uow.edu.au/app/servlet/Student;jsessionid=CE92F61458756B91CB5608F9E5C09227
• In the Scholarship section select: “Do you wish to be considered for a scholarship?” – Choose “Yes”;
• In the Sponsorship Details section select “Do you expect to receive a scholarship from another source?” Select “YES” and Select Sponsor “Program 165”.

Further Information

Contact Ms Kim Callaway, Director, Research Student Centre, UOW, kim_callaway@uow.edu.au, Ph. +61-2-42215525
or Prof. Tim Marchant, Dean of Research, UOW, tim_marchant@uow.edu.au  Ph. +61-2-42213861