US-MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Undergraduate Scholarship 2024-2025

US-MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Undergraduate Scholarship 2024-2025. Tomorrow’s Leaders Undergraduate Program (TLU).

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

US-MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Undergraduate Scholarship 2024-2025 Eligibility

• For the fall 2024-2025 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 2024-2025. In Yemen, Syria, and Iraq current high school seniors or applicants who graduated from high school in 2020 or 2024-2025;
• 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 the final year;
• Ability to start the program in August/September of 2024-2025.

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

Application Process for the US-MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Undergraduate Scholarship 2024-2025

Interested candidates can access the online application through Tomorrow’s Leaders website at www.amideast.org/tl.

The Tomorrow’s Leaders Undergraduate Program application window is now open and will close on December 6, 2024-2025.