With the aim to create development opportunities for taletnted students, VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center (VISHC) will annually grant 10 full scholarships to the best CECS students to pursue Masters Degree at thr University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. The scholarship program starts from 2024-2025 academic year and lasts for five consecutive years, with the total of 50 full scholarships over 5 years. The chosen students will have the chance to study at the College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), as part of the 4+1 Integrated Bachelor’s – Master’s Program.
UIUC currently ranks 4th in the US for postgraduate education in Computer Engineering, and is among the Top 15 universities with the greatest number of Nobel laureates worldwide.
In addition, VISHC opens opportunities for VinUni students to take part in our on-going research projects as research assistants. Each VISHC research project will be led by at least one VinUniversity professor and one UIUC professor. Students will be trained in research skills by a team of PhD students, Postdoc, and professors at VISHC.
About The VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center (VISHC)
The VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center (VISHC) is a result of the cooperation between VinUniversity (VinUni) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) – USA. Its core emphases are biotechnology and data science. This project is granted 13.5 million USD by Vingroup to work towards building and developing research that has positive impacts on human health at low cost and high accessibility.
