On January 31, 2024, Vietnam – Korea University of Information and Communication Technology (VKU), University of Danang was pleased to receive notice from Marvell Group, USA that VKU will be one of eight universities across the country are invited to introduce students to apply for the “Marvell Excellence Scholarship 2024”. 

VKU was established in 2020, with an annual enrollment target of 1,500 and an average entrance score of 24 points for 14 majors of information technology, communications and digital economy. So far, VKU has had nearly 6,000 students and plans to have 8,000 – 9,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students by 2025. There are over 250 people in the teaching staff, including nearly 60 doctors and associate professors, accounting for nearly 41%. In addition, VKU has focused on connecting and building a network of over 200 strategic partners including domestic and international organizations and businesses participating in the training process, job recruitment, sponsorship and cooperation for Bilingual global programs in English, Japanese, Korean,…. and implementation of many activities, games, international academic and cultural exchanging programs, practical projects, internships, business cooperation, programs taught in foreign languages, especially 100% of students’ graduation theses are written/presented in English. In particular, VKU is the first university in the Central region to announce enrollment and training of Semiconductor IC Design Engineers, expected to enroll about 500 students from 2024 to 2027, transferring 180 students from other majors to Semiconductor IC Design Engineers. It is expected that from 2028, there will be students graduating in the field of Semiconductor IC Design. In addition to training Semiconductor IC Design Engineers, VKU will also deploy Accelerator classes, with the expected enrollment of 60-100 targets annually.

The 2024 Marvell Vietnam Scholarship Program is offered to undergraduate engineering students in targeted universities in Vietnam (including Vietnam – Korea University of Information and Communications Technology.)

The scholarship program will have 2 categories for students in the majors of Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Engineering/Computer Science, Information Technology, Control Engineering, Automation

• Category 1: 10 scholarships, – Each $2000/48,000,000 VND  for 3rd&4th year students and minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 7.5 (10-point scale).
• Category 2: 20 scholarships – Each $500/12,000,000 VND for 2nd, 3rd, 4th year students and minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 7.0 (10-point scale). Additional conditions will be considered such as family conditions, extracurricular activities or related engineering research.

The scholarship application period starts on November 1, 2023 and ends on February 29, 2024.

Register via link: https://pages.beamery.com/marvell/page/marvell-vietnam-excellence-scholarship-program-2024

VKU always clearly defines its mission and responsibility in training, providing high – quality human resources, scientific research, knowledge and technology transfer, with the vision of becoming Vietnam’s leading university. VKU desires to reach an international level in the fields of training and research; to operate according to an advanced administration model, to be a modern and smart university. Hopefully, scholarships sponsored by domestic and foreign organizations will be a great encouragement to students in study and research.

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