Fully-Funded Undergraduate Scholarship at Leading U.S.-Accredited Universities

The U.S. Department of State's Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and Amideast are pleased to announce this year's recruitment for the Tomorrow's Leaders (TL) Undergraduate Program.

The Tomorrow’s Leaders Undergraduate Program (TLU) supports students in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by providing undergraduate level academic matriculation, civic education, and leadership development. TLU is a leadership-training program, partnering with leading U.S.-accredited universities in the MENA region to build a cadre of community, business, and national leaders who are civic-minded, intellectually able, and professionally-skilled.

TLU targets students from around the region who are academically qualified, but who are otherwise unable to afford American-style higher education. Students will enroll at the undergraduate level in a four-year program in one of the hosting institutions: The American University of Beirut (AUB), The Lebanese American University (LAU) in Lebanon and The American University in Cairo (AUC) in Egypt. Each host university offers a civic awareness and leadership-based component and participants receive mentoring and internship opportunities with local civil society, business, and non-governmental organizations. In addition each student has an opportunity to study abroad in the U.S. for one semester.

The program covers the following:

• Full tuition coverage (for a maximum period of four academic years)
• Housing (double room occupancy)
• University health insurance
• Entrance visa and residency permit fees
• Monthly living allowance
• Books
• Laptop
• Two yearly round trip tickets from and to your home country
• Opportunity for a study abroad semester in the U.S. (subject to maintaining a CGPA of 3.0 and above)
• Civic leadership and career-oriented workshop
• Internship opportunities
• Faculty mentorship and guidance

• For the fall 2022 enrollment class, applicants must be citizens of Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, and West Bank and Gaza (including Palestinians residing in other countries);
• Current high school senior or applicant who graduated from high school in 2021. In Yemen, Syria and Iraq current high school senior or applicant who graduated from high school in 2020 or 2021;
• Strong academic credentials;
• Proficiency in written and spoken English with a minimum of 55 for the TOEFL iBT that is less than two years old;
• Students who qualify may be eligible for up to one year of intensive English Language training if needed;
• Maturity, flexibility and leadership potential;
• Must maintain a high GPA and pass high school leaving exam in final year;
• Ability to start the program in August/September of 2022.

Note: U.S. Citizens or U.S. Legal Permanent Residents are not eligible to apply.

About Amideast:

AMIDEAST is a U.S. non-profit organization that works to strengthen mutual understanding and cooperation between Americans and the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa, and to offer opportunities for Learning and training, established in 1951, based in Washington D. C., headed by CEO Theodore H. Kattouf, in 2016 Amideast provided English language and professional training to 58,000 students, gave lectures on education in USA to 87,000 attendants, administered 200,000 tests, and offered scholarships to 1,700 applicants, as of 2018 Amideast provides its services to 500,000 people.

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