During its 20-year lifetime, Rafik Hariri University has succeeded in educating global citizens and developing the best leaders of tomorrow. At RHU, faculty members help students fulfill their potential by supporting their innovation and early-career exploration. Critical thinkers, passionate learners, and creative problem solvers. Those are the characteristics of RHU students and who are inspired by dedicated faculty members to become leaders in their respective professions and encourage them to engage in the most challenging competitions in their major areas.  This educational philosophy helped students lead the way. The award winning university saw during the last 18 months, more than 10 awards won by its students in prestigious national and international competitions; Here is a list of them:

• RHU business student team is the big winner of the 2018 LAU Case Competition. It succeeded in solving all the four business cases required by the Competition, winning 2 of the 4 cases and then winning the Best Team Prize awarded by LAU
• RHU graphic design students received the Pan Arab Award and took the first and second place in the visual category of the 2018 Arab StarPack Competition
• RHU team HEATECHS won the 2018 Hult Prize Lebanon's Finals. The team won the largest startup award to-date of USD 250,000 from BLOM BANK
• RHU Engineering student team received Martyr Wissam Eid Award for Scientific Innovation
• RHU computer science team won the third place in the 2019 MuniTech National Contest
• RHU computer science alumna received Netherlands Young Innovation Award
• RHU Graphic Design alumna took home the 2019 WPO WorldStar Recognition award
• RHU civil engineering teams won the first two places in the 3rd Annual Popsicle Stick Bridge Competition
• RHU project, in the field of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, “Remote operation control of a mine detection and battle clearance excavator," ranked third place among more than 85 projects submitted by groups from all Lebanese universities in the 2017 LIRA 13 Forum
• RHU civil engineering MS students reaped the 2019 Order of Engineering Award for the best graduation project in the area of structural engineering
• RHU students win the Best Paper Award at BioSMART 2019 International Conference