First NYU Abu Dhabi Student Awarded Prestigious Aker Scholarship
Tiril Hoye Rahn will pursue a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Global awards are highly-competitive, merit-based opportunities that are conducted at a national or international level.
Some of the best-known global awards include the Rhodes Scholarship, Fulbright Scholarship, and Gates-Cambridge Scholarship fund further study after your NYU Abu Dhabi education.
There are others, like the Dalai Lama Fellows, Future Global Leaders Fellowship, and Clinton Global Initiative - University, that are more experiential in nature, and which accept applications from students while they are enrolled at NYUAD.
In 6 graduating classes
(from 2014-2019)
More per student than any
university in the world
Between 2014 and 2019, NYUAD students have received 12 Rhodes Scholarships; 5 Schwarzman Scholarships; 1 Al Ghurair Scholarship; 8 Fulbright Scholarships; 1 Future Global Leader Award; 6 Global Academic Fellowships (GAF); 5 Critical Language Scholarships (CLS); 5 Dalai Lama Fellowships; 2 Erasmus Mundus Scholarships; 1 Luce Scholarship; 2 National Science Foundation Scholarships (NSF); 4 Yenching Academy Scholarships; 1 Center for Arabic Study Abroad Scholarship (CASA); 11 Clinton Global Initiative - University Scholarships (CGIU)
Fulbright Scholars
Schwarzman Scholars
Yenching Scholars
The goal is to help students identify passions, interests, and future paths. Pursuing the right global awards competitions will help achieve those goals.
The CDC offers an active, hands-on, individualized approach to advising students and alumni who are applying for global awards. Working 1-to-1 with students to determine whether a given award is right for them, and helping at every stage of the application process.
The emphasis is not on the outcome of the global award competition, but on the process of applying. There are significant and important benefits from going through the process of applying for a global award, whether or not students are selected to receive such an honor. These may include greater self-knowledge, a holistic vision for life after graduation, incredible writing samples, and an ability to tell your story in a compelling way.
Tiril Hoye Rahn will pursue a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Class of 2019 alumni Rastraraj Bhandari was selected for the fifth cohort at the Yenching Academy of Peking University.
Yousteena Bocktor is the first NYU Abu Dhabi student to receive this award from the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education.
NYU Abu Dhabi seniors have been selected as 2019 UAE Rhodes Scholars.
Follow Shamout's meteoric rise from NYUAD student enrolled to Rhodes Scholar and finally coming back full circle to where she started her university career.
Mandy Tan is the third NYU Abu Dhabi graduate in three years to be selected.
Atoka Jo and Alexander MacKay join the 2020 cohort at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
NYU Abu Dhabi graduating seniors Thomas Klein of Hillsborough, N.J., and Hannah Taylor of Plymouth, Mass., have received Fulbright US Student Program awards.
Sussan Garcia has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to support her to move to South Korea in 2021 to teach English.
Alioune Fall is NYUAD’s sixth student to be honored as a Schwarzman Scholar since the program’s inception in 2016.
NYU Abu Dhabi has produced 14 Rhodes Scholars in just seven years, more Rhodes Scholars per student than any university in the world.