PM Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a decree stipulating the fee exemption.
It will also apply to medical students who want to focus on TB, leprosy, mental illnesses and surgical sciences.
In addition traditional Vietnamese drama and opera students will get a reduction in their fees.
In recent years, the number of students who want to study "communist sciences" has dwindled sharply even though Vietnam takes pride in its Marxist heritage.
Pham Tan Ha, head of admission and training at the Social and Human Sciences University in Ho Chi Minh City, told local media that his university had been struggling to attract new students to study philosophy, including Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh ideology. » | Nga Pham, BBC News, Bangkok | Wednesday, August 14, 2013
