The domestic route should not sit only as a stray note on Home or Scholarships. VinUniversity now needs to stay visible in University Profiles and Application Dossiers because the 2026 scholarship stack is real, the CECS menu is broader than one fixed lane, and transfer plus integrated-degree options make it more than a vague fallback.

• Published 2026/27 logic includes the 35% founder subsidy, merit awards from 50% to 100% of tuition, and a President's Excellence full ride
• CECS adds a cleaner options story through Computer Science, Data Science, early research, and integrated-degree paths
• Keep it in the live stack as the domestic high-aid route, not as a note parked outside the real pack

I did not verify a direct bachelor case where a newly launched AI or Robotics programme also gives a broad tuition waiver for international students just because the programme is new.

• Do not assume a new AI label means a launch discount exists
• Keep the bachelor pack tied to real undergraduate funding logic
• Park master's-only funding wins outside the live bachelor stack

PSL's International Bachelor of Science in AI is real and the first cohort started in September 2025. But the current 2026/27 fee grid still shows €19,500 for non-EU fiscal residence, so this remains a scholarship-first France route rather than a tuition-waived default.

• New bachelor signal is real
• Fee warning stays real for non-EU households
• Keep only if scholarship or family budget logic is explicit

Thomas More's Applied Computer Science route in Geel now gives the pack one clean Belgium funding lane through the published VLIRUOS ICP Connect scholarship. For the September 2026 intake, the bachelor call ran from November 1, 2025 to February 1, 2026, and the scholarship framework covers tuition, travel, insurance, and living expenses. That is real undergraduate funding, but it is specific to this route and eligible-country logic rather than a broad Belgian tuition-waiver rule.

• Vietnam is on the current VLIRUOS ICP Connect eligible-country list
• Best read as one clean Belgium route, not a general Belgian discount assumption
• The route is more applied-computing than prestige-AI, but the funding logic is real

University of Passau and UTS are the strongest nearby examples I found. Passau's B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence launched as the university's first fully English-taught bachelor's in winter semester 2025/26, but the affordability comes from Germany's public-university model, not a launch scholarship. UTS's Bachelor of Artificial Intelligence is active for 2026 entry, but the Southeast Asia scholarship is a 20% reduction, not a fee waiver.

• Passau: structurally low-fee public route, not a launch waiver
• UTS: promising direct AI bachelor, but only partial-funding upside
• These belong on the watchlist, not in a zero-tuition claim set

Bristol's new 2026 AI master's routes under the Spärck AI scholarship, Manchester's AI and Robotics funding, Southampton's Robotics and Autonomous Systems scholarship, and Gallaudet's Universal-AI graduate traineeship are all useful intelligence, but none of them are bachelor routes.

• Good post-bachelor market signal
• Not valid evidence for a bachelor-only shortlist
• Keep them parked as later-stage options, not current targets

This is my working source of truth. It is where I separate known facts, missing fields, and older unverified claims cleanly.

• Keeps my funding and timing constraints explicit
• Shows what I still need to confirm before live use
• Protects my packet from mixing fact and draft material

This is my application-landscape layer. It explains which countries are affordability anchors and which ones only stay viable with strong scholarship results.

• Austria and Germany remain the low-fee baseline
• Finland, Hong Kong, and Belgium stay in the stack for scholarship upside
• France stays conditional unless funding or budget fit is clear

This is my target-school layer. I use it when tailoring a packet for a specific university or comparing realistic submission paths.

• Maps programmes against timing and affordability
• Supports school-specific packet variants
• Helps decide which dossier format fits which target

This is my format-comparison layer. I open it when I want to compare shapes, tones, and packet depth before choosing the right one.

• Executive, dossier, research, scholarship, and long-form formats are already prepared
• Different readers can get different packet shapes
• The pack stays document-first rather than portfolio-style

This is my export layer. I use it when the school is already chosen and I want the filled version by university and by format.

• Every row is already tied to a real shortlist university
• The recommended format is visible but other packet shapes stay available
• This is the cleanest place to open, check, and export the submission-ready variant