Summer Study Abroad Programs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Explore Vietnam’s vibrant traditional medicine systems and community health networks, from Ho Chi Minh City to rural villages and the Central Highlands. Compare Vietnamese and Chinese practices with allopathic medicine while learning from doctors, healers, and local communities. Gain insight into how globalization, development, and sustainability shape health delivery among diverse and marginalized groups, and experience meditation and healing practices at Truc Lam Monastery. MONEY MATTERS SIT has given an average of over $1.3 million in scholarships and grants to SIT Study Abroad students in recent years and is committed to ensuring you have the information necessary to apply for such funding. Our program costs include academics, excursions, accommodations, airport transfers, and health insurance. Meal arrangements vary by program. Be sure to discuss how study abroad costs are handled at your school with your study abroad advisor and read the website for more specific information.

Take advantage of excellent education at Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). This low-cost, non-profit study abroad program offers immersion into the Vietnamese language and culture through formal training. Have plenty of opportunities to practice your language skills with locals while out and about. Benefit from direct enrollment and attend classes with Vietnamese and international students from diverse nationalities. In your free time, extend your learning beyond the classroom during excursions across HCM City and nearby towns. This program is open to all students from around the globe and awards credit transferable to your home university upon successful completion. At Non-Profit Study Abroad (NPSA), we help you enroll directly at an international university. We also provide a range of resources, from finding affordable housing to making the most of your study abroad experience. Please feel free to contact us for more information about how we can help you.

Actuality Abroad's Documentary Outreach is a month-long immersive filmmaking workshop where you learn documentary production, ethical storytelling, and responsible travel. We work in partnership with locally led nonprofit organizations or social enterprises to tell stories that support the community work of changemakers. Students work together in creative crews to produce short documentary films. In every location, we focus on stories about changemakers working to solve social or environmental problems in their community. Each serving as a Producer, Director, Cinematographer, or Editor, our crews collaborate to make a short documentary film in four weeks. The program goal is for crews to learn a reliable, replicable production process that they can continually leverage to tell engaging stories about real life anywhere around the globe. Lessons include research methods, story structure, visual imagery, interviewing techniques, ethics, post-production, and more. Upcoming Outreach Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – January 10 - February 8, 2026 Santa Cruz la Laguna, Guatemala – July 11 - August 9, 2026

ABROADER has been working closely with foreign universities from different countries to organize short-term study abroad programs in Vietnam for their students. This doesn't just help internationalize their campuses, but it also creates and nurtures future leaders with cultural understanding and a more global mindset. With a large network of partner institutions and service providers across Vietnam, we are confident to collaborate and provide foreign universities and colleges with rich, customized programs that will inspire their students as well as meet their academic and other institutional goals and needs. Besides the affordability and reliability of our services, ABROADER also boasts “local involvement” as a unique component of any programs that we design. International students will get the chance to learn from our locals, with our locals, and eventually immerse themselves in Vietnamese culture via a homestay with local families, exchange activities with local students, city exploration, landscape excursion, and community services with our well-trained local buddies.