Northern Arizona University

NAU is a public research university at Flagstaff, Arizona, offering more than 170 bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes to around 1,300 international students from 70 countries, with a reported acceptance rate between 78% and 91%. Its international awards are automatic where they matter. A secondary source states that 'students applying for the International Excellence Award need not submit a different application, they will automatically be considered if they meet the criteria', and NAU's process is described as assessing 'many scholarships automatically' at the point the offer is issued. Named awards include the International Excellence Award, a partial tuition waiver; the Global Achievement Award; and a President's International Baccalaureate Scholarship at USD 5,000 a year, the last directly relevant to an NIS or IB-track Kazakh applicant. NAU reviews applications holistically.