IVCE has been launching a "Study Abroad in America" program since 2000 to help students in Vietnam pursue higher education abroad. Our goal is to provide information about admission and scholarships in the U.S., as well as to give students tools to improve their chances of gaining admission and securing financial aid.

Through our outreach and educational programs over the past years, IVCE has received hundreds of questions from Vietnamese students regarding U.S. admission and scholarship programs annually. Our most well received program has been the "Study Abroad in America" conference, which we conduct in Vietnam every summer. The overwhelming interest of Vietnamese students in this topic reinforced our commitment to providing these types of services. Our experience with the students demonstrates to us that there is a high number of students qualified to study in the U.S. but are unable to do so for lack of procedural knowledge. We plan to hold more seminars over the next summers to facilitate discussions and provide a forum for direct interaction between us and interested students.

IVCE has helped more than 5,000 people attend 34 seminars held between 2002 and 2009 throughout Vietnam. Additionally, we have advised over 2,000 people also about how to study abroad in American online. IVCE has a long-term goal of serving 30 to 50 thousand Vietnamese students during 2000-2015.

Besides, we have also set up partnerships with and maintained a collection of study abroad materials at each of the following institutions: Vietnam National University - Hanoi, Thai Nguyen University, Hue University, Da Nang Institute of Technology, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh Institute of Technology, and Can Tho University.  This collection, available to all students, contains IVCE's brochure on studying abroad in America, scholarship information, catalogs from the top 100 U.S colleges, as well as study guides for the GMAT, GRE, SAT and TOEFL.  These materials not only help students get a sense of higher education in the U.S. but also help them find appropriate schools and prepare for admission examinations.

We believe students who have the opportunity to study abroad will bring back with them ideas and concepts from American universities that can contribute to the development of Vietnam.