Announcing the Ummatics 2025 Mentorship Program

The Ummatics Institute is excited to announce that it is now accepting new mentor and mentee applications for its 2025 Mentorship program.

Many undergraduate and graduate students aspire to pursue PhD studies and academic careers in the humanities and social sciences. However, some of these motivated students have the skills and aptitude but lack the resources, opportunities, or appropriate guidance to make it in an increasingly competitive academic market in the top universities of the world.

The Ummatics Institute aims to contribute in this space by offering a novel mentorship program. The program is designed to connect aspiring, ummatic-minded students who are eager to apply for PhD programs in the social sciences and humanities with ummatic-minded academics who can guide them in this process.

This program aims to pair mentees with the right mentor based on the information provided by both on their respective application form. Ummatic-minded academics – minimally advanced PhD candidates all the way to full-time professors – are strongly encouraged to apply for a mentorship position within this exciting initiative. The more detail provided by potential mentees and mentors on the respective application forms linked below, the easier it will be for us to connect the right people.

Once connected through the program, mentors will guide their mentees through the often-confusing graduate school application process with such things as identifying suitable graduate programs based on the mentees’ individual interests and needs; crafting ‘winning’ cover letters and research statements; offering advice and recommendations for how they should approach the overall application process; and the like.

*Each mentor will only be assigned one or two mentees in order to  ensure that all mentees are given maximal attention by their mentors.

The deadline for priority application submissions is May 13th 2025. Applications submitted after the May 13th deadline may still be considered, but priority and resources will be focused on those submitted prior to the deadline. We anticipate pairing selected mentees with their respective mentors within a few weeks of the May 1st application submission deadline, inshā’Allah.

Mentee Requirements

• Good academic record

• Entering or already in your final year of undergraduate studies in or already in possession of a university degree relevant to what you want to study in graduate school 

• An interest in applying to an MA or PhD Program (we will however prioritize PhD applicants) that will begin no later than the Fall of 2026

• An interest in pursuing studies and research questions relevant to the affairs of the Umma

 Apply