Applications are open in February 2025. Closing date will be specified at a later date. An announcement about the exact date will be posted soon. 

1. The program is open to grade 11 students (or equivalent to the other international education systems. Example: AS in the A level curriculum and IB 1 in the IB curriculum).
2. Candidates must be Omani.
3. To be eligible to apply, applicants must score 75% in English and an overall average in the first semester of grade 11, or equivalent in the other international education systems.

The application will be available on the Takatuf Scholars website soon. For any information on the programme, please check the links in the ‘Our Programmes’ drop down.

The application process will require you to enter your personal details, your family details, and your school details. You will also be asked to upload a copy of your transcript, your national I.D (or passport) and your photo. Your parents or guardian will need to sign and upload a Parental Consent Form (downloadable from the website).

You need to have your personal information, your parent/guardian personal information, the transcript from your Term 1 of Grade 11, a 4 cm by 6 cm photo of yourself, your Civil ID card scanned as a PDF, your photo page of your passport scanned as a PDF. All of this information will be available on the website when you begin your application.

Once you have completed an application, press submit. If everything is complete, you will receive a message indicating that the application is complete. You will also receive an email. Please note that completing the application process does not automatically lead to enrolment into the programme.

1. In response to a completed application, you will receive an email confirming that the program received your application.
2. Once your application has been reviewed and verified by Takatuf, you will receive an email advising you of the date, time and location of your testing session.

There will be one test of your English language proficiency. Another test will be used to indicate your ability to learn at a tertiary level, both tests are online.

After successfully completing the assessments, an additional level or verification will take place to identify suitable candidates to progress ahead with the online interview session.

We do expect our scholars to remain in the programme however you are not contractually obligation to do so. A written notice of your withdrawal will need to be submitted to Takatuf before you formally exit from the programme.

Yes, they do. You will participate in our three-stage enrichment programme throughout your Grade 12 year here in Oman. The three stages are a Summer Residential Programme, this year taking place in July, the Independent Learning Phase which occurs during your first semester of Grade 12, followed by the Winter Workshop that happens usually around the school break in February.

This changes annually according to how many sponsors we have for that year.  2016 had 12 international scholarships. 2017 had 10, 2019 had 5, and 2020 had 5. We didn’t have any for 2021 due to COVID, 2022 had a total of 18 and 2023 had a total of 40 scholarships

We have all our scholars, no matter the school from which they come in Oman, participate in the 2 years boarding school. The purpose of this is multi-layered. One reason is to help build the international networks that boarding school allows. The people you meet here will be life-long friends and connections. You will also be connected with the boarding school alumni for future experiences and connections. Another reason it is beneficial is that it helps bridge the gap of moving away from family and learning the culture and expectations of the country where you are living. It is an opportunity for you to learn how to manage life on your own, away from your support network, while still having the guidance and support of caring adults from the boarding school to help navigate each step of solving the problems. Often students who repeat the two years again, find their marks increase which gives them better standing and competition as they apply to top 100 QS Ranked universities. 

An exemption may be made for students who have secured a university admission from a top 10 university (as per QS World University Rankings). We will consider these cases as a way to exempt the student from attending boarding school for 2 years.

Our boarding schools are usually in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, the Netherlands and Canada. We recently started sending our student to Singapore and are considering other options as well at this time.

Our specialities are growing according to the needs of our sponsors. We currently, and in the past, have students graduating from: Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Business, Hospitality, Bio-Engineering, Communications, Computer Science. This changes regularly.

Yes. Modest living expenses are covered for students. This covers housing, food, and essentials.

They would travel to their boarding school at the end of August or beginning of September 2025 depending on when their boarding school begins.