Eligibility, Application, and Selection
Eligibility Requirements
The Global Leaders and Scholars in STEM program is an invite-only admissions process. Selected first-year individuals with a 3.5 GPA and above will be invited to apply.
- Students who were not referred to the program and invited to apply are not eligible.
- Transfer students are not eligible.
- No applications for appeals can be submitted.
For further information on this process, contact uga.engineering@nyu.edu
Application Process
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An invitation will be sent to eligible students in mid-January 2021.
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Application deadline: March 1, 2021, at 11:59 pm
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Interested applicants must submit the following items as part of the application:
- Faculty recommendation letter
- Resume
- Personal Statement: Explain your reasons and goals for participating in the GLASS program. Describe specific prior relevant experiences and/or desired personal and career/professional goals. Answer “what does being a “global leader” mean to you? How would being a part of GLASS prepare you for the multicultural, multidisciplinary, entrepreneurial, and socially-conscious global engagement needed for 21st-century engineering?
- Essay on Technology for Global Challenges: Write about a particular Global Challenge that you are interested in, and how you see technology, innovation, engineering, and entrepreneurship helping to address that challenge.
- Review the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering and the United Nations Education for Sustainable Development Goals reports to help you identify a global challenge that you are passionate about
- Grand Challenges for Engineering. National Academy of Engineering. (2008). Updated 2017
- Education for sustainable development goals: Learning objectives. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. (2017)
- Optional e-portfolio of prior relevant work
Examples of Global Challenge areas that students can address as part of the program include, but are not limited to:
Selection Process
A small group of applicants will be invited for interviews with program leadership, after which finalists will be offered admission to the program.