PPU adopts poverty alleviation policies through the student aid programs and scholarships, the programs are administered by the Deanship for Students Affairs where students with financial hardships are invited to fill a survey that documents their socioeconomic status and eligibility for funding. PPU also provides excellence scholarships and facilitates funded students’ scholarships based on students’ programs and academic merits in addition to socioeconomic status.
PPU currently manages 15 external scholarships from local, regional and international donors, with more than 200 benefiting students in addition to many local donations by individuals and smaller communities that target students facing social and economic hardships. Each scholarship program has a set of criteria for student’s selection and granting that is mainly endorsed as criteria of selection according to the donor institution.
The policy includes the criteria of selecting students as targeted students are usually coming from various backgrounds and marginalized areas such as refugee camps and remote residential areas such as area C in West Bank. They are considered a high priority for scholarship grantees.
In addition to student aid funds and scholarships for students in need, a number of excellence and job creating grants are utilized such as the Entrepreneurship Program Students Grant, they receive a grant for practicing as work interns where they spend a year in the job market.
