Global Awards

What are global awards?

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.

12Rhodes Scholars

In 6 graduating classes
(from 2014-2019)

More per student than any
university in the world

7

Fulbright Scholars

5

Schwarzman Scholars

4

Yenching Scholars

We help you plan and prepare.

Our goal is to help students identify passions, interests, and future paths. We work together to pursue the right global awards competitions that will help achieve those goals.

We think you gain a lot from applying, no matter what the outcome.

We put the emphasis not on the outcome of the global awards competition, but on the process of applying. We believe that there are significant and important benefits from going through the process of applying for a global award, whether or not you are selected to receive such an honor.

Meet our scholars.

Rastraraj Bhandar, Yenching Scholar

Class of 2019 alumni Rastraraj Bhandari was selected for the fifth cohort at the Yenching Academy of Peking University.

Majida Al Maktoum and Amal Al Gergawi, UAE Rhodes Scholars

NYU Abu Dhabi seniors have been selected as 2019 UAE Rhodes Scholars.

Yousteena Bocktor, Al Ghurair Stem Scholar

Yousteena Bocktor is the first NYU Abu Dhabi student to receive this award from the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education.

Mandy Tan, Schwarzman Scholar

Mandy Tan is the third NYU Abu Dhabi graduate in three years to be selected.

Atoka Jo and Alexander MacKay, Schwarzman Scholars

Atoka Jo and Alexander MacKay join the 2020 cohort at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Thomas Klein and Hannah Taylor, Fulbright Scholars

NYU Abu Dhabi graduating seniors Thomas Klein of Hillsborough, N.J., and Hannah Taylor of Plymouth, Mass., have received Fulbright US Student Program awards.