MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Graduate Program (TGL) is an initiative aiming at offering students from the center East and North Africa (MENA) a singular opportunity to pursue education and earn a master’s degree through leading American University with U.S. accreditation within the MENA region. TLG equips graduate students with professional experience needed to advance knowledge and contribute to the achievement of socially relevant outcomes through research that furthers the professionalization of emerging leaders while supporting and increasing scholars’ knowledge in gender issues in specific within the various fields of study.

Graduate Students work closely with leading faculty in their field on research agendas crafted in line with the MEPI-TLG goals. Starting as graduate research assistants while taking their graduate courses, students gain solid research skills that prepare them to conceptualize and conduct their own full-fledged research.

Grounded in common foundational principles like gender and intersectionality, also as community service and leadership, the program provides participants witha opportunities to interact in related extra-curricular activities. These activities create a way of belonging and connections to an elite of humanist and social entrepreneurs, with common concerns and leading roles. Those connections are expected to measure beyond the span of the program study years because the participants become alumni of both, the TLG program, and therefore the University. Over the entire path, students and graduates are treated as fellows of the program.

Benefits of MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Graduate Program

• Full coverage of all applicable charges for enrollment, tuition and fees;
• Medical insurance coverage;
• A monthly living allowance;
• Student housing;
• One laptop for the duration of the program;
• A yearly book allowance;
• Two round-trip tickets from and to home country, where applicable;
• Exposure to and engagement in several community development projects and/or internships in host country, and/or their home countries to find out about different sorts of intervention and apply such learning back in their respective countries;
• Academic advising, mentoring services, and learning services;
• Professional training on leadership and gender.

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must

• Be committed to finish your Master’s degree within two years;
• Be committed to pursue hands-on public policy research and work as a part of your Master’s program;
• Demonstrate academic excellence;
• Be a citizen of: Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Iraq, Syria (residing outside of Syria) Tunisia, or Yemen.
• Note: americans or U.S. Legal Permanent Residents aren’t
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• Demonstrate financial need status per MEPI and host university aid policies. Applicants should be underrepresented or economically deserving students and will submit the relevant aid application.