Vietnam: What is the reduction rate in tuition applicable to students pursuing "Cải Lương" major?

What is the reduction rate in tuition applicable to students pursuing "Cải Lương" major in Vietnam?

Under Point b, Clause 1, Article 16 of Decree 81/2021/ND-CP, persons eligible for a 70% tuition reduction include:

Eligibility for tuition reduction and tuition financing

1. Eligibility for a tuition reduction of 70% includes:

a) Students pursuing traditional arts and specific majors in public, private vocational education institutions and higher education institutions providing cultural - artistic training;

b) Students pursuing traditional art forms or taxing, toxic, or hazardous occupations in case of vocational education as per lists of taxing, toxic, or hazardous occupations regulated by Ministry of Labor – War Invalids and Social Affairs;

c) Kindergarten children and students who are ethnic minorities (other than very minor ethnic minorities) in hamlets with particular difficulties, communes in category III areas, ethnic regions and mountainous regions, communes with difficulties in coastal regions and islands according to regulations of competent authority.

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According to these regulations, students pursuing majors, including "Cải Lương" major, are eligible for a 70% tuition reduction.

Thus, students pursuing "Cải Lương" major in Vietnam will receive a 70% reduction in tuition.

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Which students are eligible for a 50% tuition reduction in Vietnam?

Under Clause 2, Article 16 of Decree 81/2021/ND-CP, persons eligible for a 50% tuition reduction include:

Eligibility for tuition reduction and tuition financing

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2. Eligibility for a tuition reduction of 50% includes:

a) Kindergarten children and students who are children of officials, public officials, or workers whose parent suffers from occupational accidents or diseases and receive regular benefits;

b) Preschool students, students of formal education, learners in continuous education facilities pursuing formal education program whose parent or parents or grandparents (if living with grandparents) are near-poor households according to regulations of Prime Minister.

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Thus, students who are children of officials, public officials, or workers whose parent suffers from occupational accidents or diseases and receive regular benefits will be eligible for a 50% tuition reduction.

Which students are eligible for tuition exemption in Vietnam?

According to Article 15 of Decree 81/2021/ND-CP, students in the following cases will be eligible for tuition exemption, specifically:

- Individuals mentioned under the Ordinance on benefits for people with meritorious services to the revolution when pursuing education institutions affiliated with the national education system;

- Students with disabilities;

- Students aged 16 to 22 pursuing their first degree at a higher education institution and receiving monthly social allowances as per clauses 1 and 2 Article 5 of Decree 20/2021/ND-CP;

- Orphaned college students without parental support according to the Vocational Education Law 2014.

- Students in reserved admission programs (including those in reserved vocational training programs lasting from three months or more) as per the Vietnam Government regulations on reserved admission policies for higher education and vocational education institutions within the national education system.

- Students from ethnic minorities pursuing vocational and higher education institutions whose parents or grandparents (if living with grandparents) belong to poor or near-poor households as per the Prime Minister's regulations.

- Students pursuing Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Ideology.

- Students in specific fields such as Leprosy, Leprosy, Mental health, Forensic pathology, Forensic psychiatry, and Pathology at public health worker training institutions according to the state's ordering quota.

- Students from very few ethnic minorities as per clause 1 Article 2 of Decree 57/2017/ND-CP in disadvantaged or exceptionally disadvantaged areas as per current regulations of the competent authority.

- Students are under programs and schemes with tuition exemptions as per the Vietnamese government regulations.

- College students pursuing difficult-to-recruit fields but needed by society as per the list issued by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs.

- Students in professions with specific expertise to meet the socio-economic, defense, and security development needs as per the Vocational Education Law 2014.