Financial Aid and Scholarships at American University of Sharjah (AUS)

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AUS lists grants and scholarships, a sponsorship liaison service, and a payment guide among its admissions resources, so financial support at the university runs along three tracks: awards the university itself offers, external sponsorship that the university helps you administer, and published fee and payment information you can review before committing. The sections below cover what each track is for and how to use it, based on the university's own site structure. Exact award amounts, eligibility thresholds, and deadlines are not published in the material available here, so treat the official admissions pages as the source of truth before you rely on any figure.

Grants and Scholarships

AUS groups "Grants and Scholarships" as a single admissions category, which tells you the university administers both need-oriented and merit-oriented support rather than a single scholarship scheme.

What this means practically:

  • You apply or get considered through the admissions process, not through a separate external portal, since the category sits inside Admissions alongside "Prospective Students," "Bachelor's Degrees," and "Admission Publications."
  • Award types are not itemized on the homepage. To see which scholarships exist, their value, and whether they renew year to year, you need to open the Grants and Scholarships page itself.
  • Merit awards and need-based grants often have different documentation requirements. Expect to submit academic records for one and financial documentation for the other.

If you are comparing AUS against other universities, the useful question is not "does AUS have scholarships" (it does) but "which specific award can I qualify for, and does it renew?" That answer only exists on the dedicated page.

Sponsorship Liaison Services

AUS runs a Sponsorship Liaison Services function. This is the office that connects students whose fees are paid by a third party — an employer, a government body, or another sponsor — with the university's billing process.

This matters most if:

  • You are an international student whose home government or employer funds your study.
  • You hold a sponsorship letter that needs to be processed against your tuition account.
  • You need the university to issue documentation your sponsor requires.

The liaison service exists so you are not personally mediating between a sponsor's paperwork and the bursar. If your funding comes from outside your own bank account, this is the first office to contact after admission.

Payment Guide and Fees

AUS publishes a Payment Guide under Admissions. This is where you find how fees are paid, what payment methods are accepted, and the payment schedule.

Use it to answer:

  • When payments are due relative to registration.
  • How payments are made (the guide is the authoritative list of accepted methods — the material here does not name specific platforms).
  • What happens if a payment is late or incomplete.

Note that the site also lists a File Completion step in the admissions sequence. Payment and file completion are separate gates: a scholarship or sponsorship may cover your fees while your file still needs completing before you are fully registered.

Support for International Students

International students appear as their own admissions category, and the sponsorship liaison service is the main financial-support touchpoint for them. Two things follow:

  1. Confirm your funding route before you accept an offer. If a sponsor is paying, get the sponsorship documentation in motion early, because it has to clear the liaison service, not just you.
  2. Check whether any grant or scholarship you are offered is compatible with external sponsorship. Universities sometimes restrict stacking awards; the Grants and Scholarships page is where that rule would be stated.

How to Work Through This

  1. Open the Grants and Scholarships page and list every award you might qualify for, with its stated conditions.
  2. If a third party is funding you, contact Sponsorship Liaison Services and ask what documentation they need and by when.
  3. Read the Payment Guide to understand the schedule and accepted methods.
  4. Complete your File Completion requirements so funding and registration do not block each other.
  5. For anything not stated on those pages — amounts, renewal rules, deadlines — contact Admissions directly rather than assuming.

The site's own navigation puts all of this under Admissions, so that is the section to work from rather than general university pages.