Currently, VNU has many different scholarship policies, including state budget grants and scholarships funded by domestic and foreign organizations and individuals. However, according to the current state regulations, budget-based scholarships are only available to high achievers; whereas, the basic sciences have difficulty in recruiting students. Therefore, VNU is a pioneer in piloting the granting of fully-funded scholarships for students applying for VNU's basic sciences right from the first year.

Thus, VNU's scholarship program for basic sciences will create an open mechanism to help students with excellent achievements study their favorite subjects with attractive scholarship policies, encouraging their learning, motivating them to become good students, developing human resources for higher education levels as well as scientific human resources in the future.

In the coming time, VNU will apply many other scholarship and support policies, such as supporting boarding high schools for ethnic minorities, providing scholarships for excellent ethnic minorities students, etc.

VNU’s Scholarship program for basic sciences from the 2022-2023 academic year aims to attract good and excellent students to VNU's Scientist incubation program.

The scholarship program is applied for 9 disciplines of VNU University of Science and 9 disciplines of VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

 + Nine disciplines of VNU University of Science are: (1) Mathematics talents, (2) Physics Talents, (3) Chemistry talents, (4) Biology Talents, (5) Physical Geography, (6) Geology, (7) Water resources and environment, (8) Oceanography, (9) Nuclear engineering technology.

+ Nine disciplines of VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities are: (1) Sino-Nom Studies, (2) History, (3) Philosophy, (4) Religious Studies, (5) Politics, (6) Anthropology, (7) Vietnamese Studies, (8) Linguistics, (9) Literature.

- Number of scholarships: at least 5 scholarships/discipline/course. The number of scholarships each year is decided by the university rector based on the quantity and quality of applications.

- The scholarship covers tuition and dormitory fees for the whole course of study (4 academic years), a minimum living allowance of 2 million VND/month in the first year and the subsequent years for the recipient’s good or better academic performance.

- Eligible students are given priority consideration for other bigger scholarships of VNU.

- Students have the opportunity to participate in the Scientist incubation program; be assigned a mentor scientist; and participate in scientific research, extracurricular activities throughout their studies.