{"id":2436,"date":"2025-11-14T21:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:18:56","slug":"mastercard-foundation-scholars-program-2025-2026-at-american-university-of-beirut-fully-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=2436","title":{"rendered":"Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2025-2026 at American University of Beirut (Fully-funded)"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-168775\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Deadline: November 6, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applications are open for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2025-2026 at American University of Beirut. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program provides full scholarships in partnership with the American University of Beirut (AUB).<\/p>\n<p>The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program \u200baims to prepare young people to be agents of change in their communities, countries, and regions. Scholars attend a series of workshops, courses, and fieldwork in addition to the courses for their degrees.<\/p>\n<p>PhD Programs open for Spring 2025-26\u200b:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Theoretical Physics<\/li>\n<li>Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Civil Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Environmental and Water Resources Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Mechanical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Epidemiology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The scholarship will cover tuition, accommodation and living expenses for selected applicants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PhD scholarships are open to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Citizens of countries on the African Continent<\/li>\n<li>Refugees living \u200bon the African Continent\u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selection Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good academic standing in the previous degree<\/li>\n<li>Talent that exceeds financial resources\u200b<\/li>\n<li>Commitment to giving back to the community, country, and region<\/li>\n<li>Leadership skills<\/li>\n<li>Commitment to attend all the additional learning experiences and workshops required by the Scholars Program<\/li>\n<li>35 years or younger<\/li>\n<li>Demonstration of Readiness for University Studies in English (RUSE).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u200bTests that you can submit: AUB-EN test, TOEFL IBT, IELTS (Academic), GRE (Verbal), GMAT (Verbal), or DUOLINGO English Test (DET).\u200b<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interested applicants should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Step<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u200b1:\u00a0<\/strong>Complete an\u00a0<em>AUB\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/graduateadmissions.aub.edu.lb\/Pages\/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=\/Pages\/Applications.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>online graduate application<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0upload supporting documents by the\u00a0deadline.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step \u200b2:\u00a0<\/strong>Select\u00a0<em>Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program<\/em>\u00a0under the Financial Opportunities\u00a0section of\u00a0the online graduate application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, visit <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aub.edu.lb\/mcf\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MCFSP<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline: November 6, 2025 Applications are open for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2025-2026 at American University of Beirut. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program provides full scholarships in partnership with the American University of Beirut (AUB). The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program \u200baims to prepare young people to be agents of change in their communities, countries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1K2_DA:productID":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phd"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}