A Hanoi high school senior has won a full undergraduate scholarship from the German government, claiming one of 116 spots awarded worldwide in a program that mainly funds master's and doctoral candidates.
Tran Le Hanh Dung, a 12th-grader in the German language program at the Foreign Language Specialized School (FLSS) under Vietnam National University, Hanoi, is one of two students from the capital to receive the award this cycle.Her application carried a three-year grade point average of 9.7-9.8 out of 10, a C1-level German certificate through the Deutsches Sprachdiplom Stufe II (DSD-II), and an IELTS score of 8.5. She also took first prize at VNU Hanoi's German Olympiad and second prize at Grammatikzauber, a German grammar teaching competition, and serves as vice president of her school's German Club.The scholarship is funded by Germany's Federal Foreign Office and administered through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). It covers tuition, living costs, health and accident insurance, and return airfare. Teachers at FLSS said full undergraduate awards in the program are unusual because it primarily targets graduate-level study.Though her specialization is languages, Dung will study Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, a German degree that combines industrial engineering with business and economics. She picked it because she enjoys mathematics and physics and wants to understand how technical work connects to real economic outcomes."I think an engineer needs more than technical expertise. They also need to understand economics to create products that are valuable to society," she said.
