Become #ImpactReady
Get the education that's built around the impact you want to make in the world.
Apply to study at ALU and graduate with the skills, networks and experiences hand-picked to best serve your personal mission.
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Sepiso completed her degree while working with ESSA (a UK-based non-profit dedicated to advancing innovation in universities in sub Saharan Africa) as an intern on their Pilot Scholarship Impact Hub program. While at ALU, Sepiso helped redesign Colgate-Palmolive’s sales databases and implemented a new Africa-focused marketing and distribution strategy.
Sepiso Mwamelo
Amina Soulimani, one of ALU’s founding graduates, was recognized by Glasgow Caledonian University for her outstanding dissertation in social sciences. Amina credits her work to self-directed learning, intellectually stimulating peer-work, and committed faculty members. Amina is currently pursuing her Masters in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Politics and plans to write a Ph.D. thesis on urban inequalities. She looks forward to exploring her passions through writing and amplifying stories from those on the margins.
Amina Soulimani
In response to the skill gap in Africa, four ALU students have created Tutoo+, a digital solution that combines e-learning with offline capabilities tailored to the African context. Designed to deliver a disruptive education experience through cutting-edge technologies, Tutoo+ was recently awarded the Ivory Coast Orange Social Venture Prize.
Koffi Takpah, Kone Fanhatcha, Amenan Sidiki & Salmane Tamo
Rural homes and schools across Rwanda now have access to clean, sustainable energy thanks to Alice Mukashyaka (‘17). Her organization Starlight (recently featured in Forbes) replaces kerosene lamps with locally-made, solar-powered lanterns to reduce emissions on the local level. Starlight operates on a women-led business model — recruiting, training, and supporting local women to sell and distribute the solar lights and become clean-energy micro-entrepreneurs themselves.
Alice Mukashyaka
More effective irrigation can be a game-changer for smallholder farmers, but the systems can often be cost-prohibitive. That’s where Nutri You comes in. Founded by Ellen Savude (‘16), Nutri You seeks to provide smallholder farmers in Busia County, Kenya, with affordable access to low-cost drip irrigation systems. These systems allow farmers to water their crops all year round without having to rely on rain, enabling them to increase local food production even in the face of a changing climate.
Ellen Savude
Declare a mission and then align your learning around this mission.
The critical first step towards launching a rewarding career is to build it around the unique impact you want to achieve in the world. Most people start their career journeys with an uncertain focus - after all, how do you even start defining a mission for a life’s work. The good news is that missions are not set in stone, they can change and evolve as you do, and as the world and environment around you do the same.
Choose a university that takes a different approach.
When you attend ALU, you start by voicing a mission that motivates and inspires you right now and then you gather the tools, knowledge and network that will help you get started on this journey, and later in life - adapt and pivot as new missions, opportunities and passions enter your world. This way, you will get to:
Discover your life’s
purpose
The pursuit of purpose will help you grow into a critically minded individual who is consistently enthusiastic about solving problems and contributing to global knowledge of issues in various mission and research theme.
Align your learning with
your purpose
Understand how learning how to learn while being focused on your mission can help you bridge the skills gap and be ready for the future.
Get more than just
a job title
A life of purpose will take you beyond a simple job and will help you boost your self-identity and self-worth by being tied to a larger mission.
Study at ALU’s innovative Hubs in 3 continents and over 15 cities
Learn from phenomenal experts-in-residence
As a student at ALU, you will be exposed to knowledge and advice from global experts who spend time on our campus working directly with you. Whichever field, or whatever career path you choose to pursue, there’s always an expert ready to help you achieve the best results.
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Why should you
choose ALU?
At ALU, we have designed a proven approach that helps you get ready to launch your life of impact - and help you achieve your goals.
All ALU students get the opportunity to harness the characteristics essential for creating a mission-based life of impact and purpose. This means a core part of our programme is to challenge you to identify the impact you want to have in the world. We then develop the 21st-century skills and network you need as a young leader, professional or entrepreneur, to help achieve this impact.
The programmes at ALU allow students to explore the fine line between great leadership and entrepreneurial thinking. Students get the opportunity to grow and develop skills such as self-awareness, identifying opportunities, design thinking, proactivity and innovation. They are prepared to become entrepreneurial leaders who will harness the tremendous opportunities that abound on the continent.
At ALU we believe the key to success is not memorising facts and figures that can change, but on learning life-long skills that you can apply throughout your career. This is why we intentionally develop skills like self-leading, leading others, entrepreneurial thinking, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, managing complex projects, and communication in students through practice, on-the-job experience, coaching, and regular feedback – in conjunction with our academic programmes.
ALU has students from over 40 countries. Our students become part of a talented, diverse community from around the world. They are surrounded by driven, talented, and passionate classmates. They are exposed to ALU’s unique and powerful network of mentors, guest speakers, experts-in-residence, industry leaders, investors, ALU staff, and employer partners.
Melissa completed 10 internships and training programs with organizations tackling economic development, health and inclusion. These internships included Ashinaga (Japan), Google (Ireland), Bain & Co. (South Africa), the Gates Foundation and INSEAD. As a Gender Equality Representative at the World Government Summit, she advocates for the progression of women in society and the upliftment of African art and artists. Melissa currently works as a Strategy & Innovation Consultant at H&M in Germany.
Melissa Kariuki Global Citizen