Reduction of the Tuition fees

Students who can benefit from this reduction
The USEK’s direction has defined seven categories of students eligible for tuition fees’ reductions (no reduction can be applied on the registration fees). These categories, the reduction percentages, the period during which the student has to file his demand to the Social Service Office are all detailed in the following table. It is worth mentioning that the defined reductions can never be applied to the first payment of each semester.

The office of Social Services is responsible for coordinating various student services including promoting their interests and well-being and to better plan ahead. The students confidentiality is always assured.

The Office of Social Service operates on four levels:

Funding

It comes in three forms, depending on the case of each student:

1.For students applying for Sophomore year (students preparing their Bacc)

Under the Early Admission Plan

Candidates must submit their application forms before May 10 of the year preceding admission. The documents to be submitted before May 10 with the application form are:

• The score reports for Grade 10 (Seconde), Grade 11 (1ere) and the first term of Grade 12 (terminale)
• Identification documents
• Four passport-size photos

Required Documents

New students holding the Official Lebanese Government Secondary Certificate (Previously Lebanese Baccalaureate part II) or any other recognized government secondary certificate and applying for undergraduate study must submit a formal application (available online), along with:

1. Individual extract of record that is no older than 6months

2. Family extract of record that is no older than 6 months

3. Certified copy of passport for non-Lebanese applicants

The NDU Admissions selection process is very extensively thought out, and considers several criteria for acceptance. There are three states of selection: acceptance, conditional acceptance, and rejection. An applicant is accepted if he or she fulfills all the requirements, is conditionally accepted once he or she does (if it seems likely that he or she will), and is rejected when there is little or no hope that he or she will meet the necessities.

Information for Undergraduate Students

UNIVERSITY ORIENTATION PROGRAM (UOP)
The University of Balamand offers an Intensive Language Program and a Remedial Program that prepare students for the language aptitude entrance examinations required by the different departments at the University.

Failure to meet language requirements set by the University may place a student in the Intensive Language Program. This Program

Requirements

Admission requirements, documentation, test scores, and submission deadlines are the same for all undergraduate programs, with two main exceptions:

• Lebanese students applying for entry into the freshman class must submit permission from the Equivalence Committee of the Lebanese Ministry of Education.
• Lebanese students who graduated from non-Lebanese programs must submit the equivalence to the Lebanese baccalaureate from the Ministry of Education.

The American University of Beirut seeks students of sound character and demonstrated academic achievement and promise. In accordance with the policies of its founders and with its equal opportunity policy, the University admits students regardless of race, color, religion, gender, disability, or national origin. The University values its strong ties with its alumni and considers the attendance of alumni children important to the maintenance of these ties and to the continuation of its traditions.

University Preparatory Program (UPP)

The state and federal governments in the USA spend billions of dollars every year to support universities in the USA. Surprisingly, there are no government standards for the quality of education at universities in the USA. Instead, minimum standards for education in universities are set by private, nonprofit corporations, called accrediting organizations.

My impression is that accreditation in the USA is mostly a bureaucracy, full of buzzwords about quality and integrity of degrees.

Definitions

Before one can understand the requirements for academic degrees, one first must understand some terms about academic credit for a class:

semester

A semester is an academic term with a duration of 15 weeks. Typically in the USA, a university has two semesters per year: one begins in August and the other begins in January. (There is a third semester during the summer, but most students have jobs during the summer, instead of attending classes then.)