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The Global Undergraduate Awards is the world’s leading undergraduate awards programme which recognises top undergraduate work, shares this work with a global audience and connects students across cultures and disciplines.

Our values are innovation, collaboration, ambition, impartiality and inclusiveness. We believe in empowering students, helping them to recognise the potential their undergraduate work can have in making real change. We wish to connect the world’s brightest students and graduates early in their career to give them the confidence to acknowledge and harness their talents to build a brighter future. Fundamentally, we celebrate the passion and excellence of undergraduate students in their chosen field, and help them to explore how that passion can be deployed in making the world a better place for all.

The Undergraduate Library

The Undergraduate Library is an open access library dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of all award-winning entries of The Global Undergraduate Awards Programme.

All Highly Commended Entrants, Regional Winners and Global Winners are eligible to have their winning entry archived within library.

The Library

The Annual GUA Global Summit

The annual UA Global Summit is a unique three-day event for undergraduate students and academics.

The Global Undergraduate Summit is built around the central tenet of sharing information, knowledge and ideas, while making long-standing interdisciplinary and international connections and friendships.

The GUA Summit

The UA Numbers

The Global Undergraduate Awards is the world’s leading academic awards programme, open to all undergraduate students in almost every academic discipline and attracting submissions from hundreds of universities on every continent.

It was an amazing few days getting to know other winners from a range of different categories and countries. The opportunity to present my research and speak with so many brilliant minds is incomparable. I can’t wait to see what everyone achieves in the future.
Maggie Tighe
Maggie TigheUniversity College Cork, Global Winner 2022
The prize, the medal is a great bonus to have but I think more important are the connections that we have made, and the ideas that we have shared. It's an unbelievable experience.
Kang Rui Garrick Lim
Kang Rui Garrick LimNational University of Singapore, Global Winner 2019
It’s nice to have a platform where undergraduate work is recognised as being as revolutionary and groundbreaking as the stuff that’s produced at postgraduate level.
Jay Millard
Jay Millard University of Leeds, Global Winner 2019
The research that we conduct is most often impacted by our intimate personal identities and so when you’re sharing your research you are sharing a part of yourself, your life, your identity, and your community with each other.
Istifaa Ahmed
Istifaa AhmedUniversity of California, Berkeley, Global Winner 2018

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American University of Sharjah

“We have collaborated with the GUA since 2016, coordinated through a dedicated university-wide engagement initiative. Over this period, AUS students have earned over 125 awards across all tiers, including Highly Commended Entrants, Regional Winners for Africa and the Middle East and multiple Global Winners, and enabled AUS students to showcase their work to an international academic audience. This sustained success reflects the strength, diversity and global competitiveness of its undergraduate scholarship.”

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The Global Undergraduate Awards celebrate original and creative thinking among students, and the need for such critical thinking has never been greater.
Michael D. Higgins
Michael D. HigginsPresident of Ireland
One thing that struck me about the essays was the breadth of knowledge and the discipline of structure…I don’t like to use the word brilliant, but they truly were brilliant. Once we were down to the last ten we were wondering how we could separate perfection from perfection.
Dr. David Irwin
Dr. David Irwin Judging Panel Chair of Anthropology & Cultural Studies

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