AUC believes all eager and qualified individuals should have the chance to acquire an education that provides the skills and vision necessary to meet the challenges ahead. For many promising students, only a scholarship brings AUC’s high-quality education within reach.

AUC presents merit and need-based scholarships to students with exceptional academic records and demonstrated leadership skills, providing almost $14 million per year in undergraduate financial aid. Awarded to more than 75 percent of students entering AUC, this crucial financial assistance helps ensure that AUC is able to recruit outstanding students, regardless of their families' financial situation.

University supporters have an opportunity to name an undergraduate scholarship or graduate fellowship that will provide the region's brightest students with a unique educational opportunity.

Professorships honor the best teacher scholars and make it possible for the university to recruit and retain outstanding teachers and researchers. The presence of esteemed faculty also helps attract the best students to AUC, graduates and undergraduates, adding to an already thriving academic climate.

Endowed professors draw on a wealth of experience and expertise and, through teaching, lectures and scholarly publications, provide AUC’s students and the community at large with new insights and a richer academic environment.

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Scholarships

Annual undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships: Cover the tuition of one or more undergraduate and/or graduate students for one year.

Endowed undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships: Provide -- in perpetuity -- financial aid to deserving students. These donations are placed in income-producing funds, with the income used each year to help support one or more students.

Public School Scholarship Program

Providing full five-year undergraduate scholarships each year to 20 outstanding students graduating from Egyptian government schools, this fund is supported through the contributions of both corporations and individuals. 

The recipients of the Public School Scholarship go through a rigorous selection process to ensure both the financial necessity and merit of the student. The Ministry of Education distributes 200 applications to different districts throughout Egypt. Each district is requested to nominate their most outstanding student, and from this list 100 students are selected by the ministry to be presented to AUC. The 20 final recipients of the scholarship are selected from this pool of candidates provided they meet the admission criteria for AUC and are financially needy. These students spend five years at AUC, utilizing their first year to learn English.

The PSSF has been one of AUC’s most successful scholarship programs. Since its establishment in 1990, the fund has sponsored a total of 133 students who have demonstrated exceptional academic potential. In fact, 73 percent of these students have graduated with distinction receiving high and highest honors. The scholarship has made positive, life changing impressions on the lives of many deserving students.

Petroleum and Energy Engineering undergraduate scholarship

The Petroleum and Energy Engineering program will provide a strong educational foundation for regional and international students looking to specialize in the diversified operations of the petroleum, gas and energy industries. A five-year undergraduate curriculum has been created that builds on established petroleum engineering programs in leading academic institutions in the United States. An endowed undergraduate scholarship in petroleum and energy engineering will help attract the best students, thereby strengthening the program and improving the quality of instruction.

Fellowships

Postgraduate program in International and Comparative Law

AUC’s postgraduate program in International and Comparative Law seeks to address the current crisis in Arab legal education by providing its students with the highest standards of academic excellence.

Graduate LL.M. fellowships can make a difference in the life of a deserving student as well as provide Egypt and the Arab world with legal professionals committed to the advancement of good governance and the rule of law.

Middle East Studies

AUC’s program in Middle East studies can compete with the best of its peer programs in the United States. The program’s graduates represent a diverse and international group of students, many of whom pursue successful careers in business, journalism, public service and academia. Graduate fellowships are the key to attracting and retaining the best and the brightest, as well as guaranteeing the program’s rigorous and dynamic academic environment.

Egyptology Graduate Program

A generous endowment will allow AUC to expand its current Egyptology curriculum and create a graduate program that will offer students a solid background and competitive edge in the field. 

An Endowed Fellowship will help in attracting and retaining the best and the brightest, as well as guaranteeing the program’s rigorous and dynamic academic environment.  

Professorships

Postgraduate program in International and Comparative Law

AUC’s postgraduate program in International and Comparative Law seeks to address the current crisis in Arab legal education by providing its students with the highest standards of academic excellence.

An endowed LLM professorship will help attract the best professors, thereby strengthening the program and improving the quality of instruction.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research

A permanent professorship for the CASAR will help AUC recruit and retain leading scholars and experts who can inform and invigorate the American studies program. As the Center’s offerings and activities continue to expand, an endowed professorship will ensure a permanent position that will help strengthen the quality of instruction and research.

Middle East Studies

Endowed professorships are one of AUC’s highest priorities and greatest needs. An Endowed Professorship in Middle East studies will enable the university to recruit outstanding scholars and academics and will facilitate an increase in graduate courses especially tailored for Middle East studies students ($1 million).

Petroleum and Energy Engineering

The Petroleum and Energy Engineering program will provide a strong educational foundation for regional and international students looking to specialize in the diversified operations of the petroleum, gas and energy industries. A five-year undergraduate curriculum has been created that builds on established petroleum engineering programs in leading academic institutions in the United States. An endowed professorship in petroleum and energy engineering will help attract the best professors, thereby strengthening the program and improving the quality of instruction.

Coptic Studies Program

Thanks to the support of donors, each semester AUC invites a distinguished scholar to spearhead and chair the Coptic studies program. Today we aspire to move beyond the one-semester visiting professorship to the hiring of a permanent faculty member, who will oversee the systematic development of the Coptic Studies program. By increasing our current endowment, the program can attract top scholars and invigorate and strengthen the Coptic Studies offerings.

An endowed professorship for the Coptic Studies Program will help attract the best professors, thereby strengthening the program and improving the quality of instruction.

Egyptology

AUC is planning to expand its current Egyptology curriculum and create a graduate program that will offer students a solid background and competitive edge in the field.

An endowed professorship is key to starting the new MA program and attracting the best professors in the field.

Financial Aid

Although the American University in Cairo is a private university that depends upon tuition and contributions for its livelihood, it attempts to provide financial assistance to any student who demonstrates financial need. AUC offers a range of  fellowships, scholarships and financial aid to assist students in meeting the expenses of their education. 

Contributions to the AUC Annual Fund have a direct impact on the everyday lives of students. Donors may decide to make unrestricted gifts, to be used wherever the need is greatest, or they may designate their gift to a specific scholarship or financial aid program.