AUC Tomorrow’s Leaders  Program for Graduate Student 2025 | TLG Fellowship

The American University in Cairo is now open for applications to the Tomorrow's Leaders Graduate (TLG) Fellowship Program, set for 2025. This highly competitive fellowship provides a comprehensive scholarship package and opportunities in leadership development, research collaboration, and internship to support promising graduate students from the Middle East and North Africa.

TLG Fellowship

The TLG Fellowship is a competitive award given out on the merit of academic performance, leadership ability, and community engagement. An applicant for the fellowship must hold a bachelor's degree from a recognized institution source and have fluency in the English language and should be a citizen of the MENA country. Full tuition, stipends and other support will be available to graduate students through TLG Fellowship Program so that distractions are not allowed in academics, studies, and any leadership training.

Fellowship 2025

It is an international graduate students co-op program between the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the US Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA/AC). The TLG Fellowship 2025 will identify academically qualified and economically deserving students.

• Professional Qualification: Students with professional qualification and experience who want to enhance their knowledge and be able to make their contribution in realizing socially relevant outcomes through this graduate study program.AUC Tomorrow's Leaders Graduate Students Program, students shall also conduct research that will make the professionalization of emerging leaders.

Fellowship for International Student

The TLG provides free higher education and confers a master's degree with scholarship to international students from North Africa (MENA) and the Middle East to be offered scholarships in Egypt at American University in Cairo to students enrolled in one of these eligible graduate programs, so that one seeks their graduate studies and research studies in any of the fields below. There is a very wide range of fields and topics in the research students. This fully funded TLG fellowship for international students is pretty awesome in terms of the benefit package because, under this graduate students program at AUC, all the full costs of almost everything will be covered.

• TLG Fellowship: Fully Funded

• Deadline: November 29, 2024

Graduate Students Program

Students with a distinguished academic record and research interest in any of the available topics of the TLG program are invited to apply for the AUC Tomorrow's Leaders Graduate Students Program (TLG) 2025. The students applying for the TLG students program in 2025 are expected to commit to meeting the demands of the program's research requirements and carrying out their graduate thesis research in any of the following topics:

Emotional intelligence in school leadership, Contemporary Urbanisms, Poverty and inequality among migrants and refugees, Public diplomacy, Urban policies and the planning of the city, Governance, Health Care, Environmental Sustainability and much more.

Citizenship

Applicants must be residents of a Middle East or North Africa (MENA) country.

Academic Career

The applicant must have an undergraduate degree from a reputable degree-granting institution.The applicants must have an exceptional academic record, preferably more than 3.0 GPA. Applicants must demonstrate a good command of the English language. He/ She must meet a minimum score of 61 in the TOEFL and 6.0 in the IELTS test.

Leadership Promise

Should demonstrate leadership skills either through some sort of extracurricular, volunteering, or other comparable activity

• Community service: Demonstrated commitment to community through service with voluntary, activism, amongst other activity

• Age: Applied are younger than 30 years.

• Others: Demonstrating an intention to serve your country after completion of their master's applicants willing to participate in programmes, one of which is the mentees and community outreach and services.Those who have expressed interest to study the Master's course and thus can join the programme while.The following do not qualify. Those enrolled students currently studying for a degree are not qualified.Holders of a graduate degree also do not qualify.Those currently working in their employment with AUC or affiliates qualify.

• National of a Middle East or North Africa (MENA) country
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
• Good academic record; minimum GPA 3.0
• English language proficiency: minimum TOEFL 61 or IELTS 6.0
• Leadership potential and wish to make a difference to the community
• Age under 30
• Willingness to return to home country after graduate studies
• Waiver of tuition
• Monthly stipend
• Opportunities to participate in internship and research collaborations
• Leadership and mentorship
• Professional and academic networking
• Career service and AUC's alumni network
• Selection Procedure
• Shortlisting of candidates
• Selection of candidates
• Final Selection by Interview
• Notification to the selected candidate