About USAP

USAP students represent the best and brightest students of their nation. They aspire to broaden their horizons and share ideas and perspectives with a diverse array of people. USAP participants are selected for embodying all of the following four qualities-

• Academic excellence
• Demonstrated leadership potential
• Ethos of giving back to community
• Economic disadvantage

USAP began in Zimbabwe in 1999 with the aim of providing access to higher education for determined, bright, low-income youth, thus producing highly-skilled and liberally-educated leaders for tomorrow’s Zimbabwe.

Eight years later, more than 150 Zimbabwean USAP students have excelled as students at America’s top colleges and universities, and many are continuing graduate studies or are working all over the globe. There are now active USAP programs based at EducationUSA advising centers in 13 countries on 4 continents: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Latvia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mongolia, Nigeria, Serbia, South Africa, Uganda, the UK and Zimbabwe...(Read More)