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If you are a Nigerian Student who just completed their Bachelor’s degree and is looking to pursue a master’s degree, or have completed a master’s degree and is planning to do their PhD, then it will interest you to know that there are certain post graduate degree scholarships specially designed to aid you with the financial assistance required to do that.
These postgraduate degree scholarships for masters students, and postgraduate research scholarships for PhD students, are usually awarded by organizations or universities to Nigerian students who meet all the given eligibility criteria required for them to qualify for the scholarship.
And because we know how important these study opportunities are to you, ScholarshipAir has found for you, (so you don’t have to) the best scholarships for postgraduate studies 2025-2026, which you can apply for to fund your studies. Some of the postgraduate scholarships are fully funded while some are partially funded. The university to study ranges from Nigeria to abroad
HUCE created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard’s extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental issues. Fellows work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department to form a community of resea
Published: 30 Sep 2024 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 13 Jan 2024
The Child Rights and Community Institute Program (CRIP), an initiative of the Community Children’s Rights Institute (CRI), with support from the McArthur Foundation is dedicated to empowering young people as advocates for children’s rights. This fellowship aims to equip individuals wi
Published: 30 Sep 2024 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 24 Oct 2024
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The UBC International Scholarship Program covers the cost of tuition and also contributes to living costs for selected international candidates. UBC’s International Scholars Program is designed for academically outstanding students from around the world who demonstrate strong leadership, co
Published: 30 Sep 2024 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 15 Nov 2024
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The main purpose of the two-year Master of Science programme is to provide postgraduate students with detailed knowledge, critical understanding, strategies and the tools required to take an interdisciplinary approach towards environmental risks and human security. The Master’s programme addre
Published: 29 Sep 2024 Type: Masters Deadline: 15 Dec 2024
The Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship offers an opportunity for 16 young climate and clean energy practitioners from across the Global South to broaden their technical skills, deepen their professional networks, and exchange views with top global clean energy and climate change leaders. Cl
Published: 29 Sep 2024 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 08 Nov 2024
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Acumen invests in social entrepreneurs across the capital continuum and accompanies them on the journey to create transformational change. At Acumen Academy, we identify and prepare these leaders with the hard skills required to build scalable solutions to poverty and the harder skills of moral lead
Published: 27 Sep 2024 Type: Fellowship Study in: India Deadline: 30 Oct 2024
In collaboration with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), a limited number of scholarships are available for M.Sc. Agricultural Economics at the University of Hohenheim under the special initiative “Development-Related Postgraduate Courses” (EPOS). For up-to-date requiremen
Published: 27 Sep 2024 Type: Masters Study in: Germany Deadline: 15 Dec 2024
The University of Lincoln’s Africa Scholarship supports postgraduate-taught students from across Africa. The University of Lincoln’s Africa Scholarship is designed to help students from across Africa access postgraduate-level study at the University of Lincoln. The Africa Scholarship is
Published: 27 Sep 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Value: £3,000 Deadline: Not Specified
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce that applications for the 2025/2026 academic year are now open.
Published: 26 Sep 2024 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 05 Jan 2025
The African Research Fellowship (ARF) program, initiated in 2021 by ESA in collaboration with the African Union Commission, seeks to empower African researchers with a PhD or Master’s degree and extensive research experience to engage in Earth Observation (EO) R&D activities that address k
Published: 26 Sep 2024 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Oct 2024
Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) voffers students a choice of graduate programs in a modern and innovative university setting, located in the thriving capital of the UAE. Combining a contemporary education system and robust curriculum with the rich culture and heri
Published: 25 Sep 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Arab Emirates Deadline: 15 Jan 2025
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Toronto (U of T) is a fully funded scholarship program for graduate studies at Canada’s leading institution of learning, discovery, and knowledge creation. U of T is proud to be one of the world’s top research-intensive univ
Published: 25 Sep 2024 Type: Masters Study in: Canada Deadline: 04 Nov 2024
The African Studies Center is pleased to announce the Nnamdi Azikiwe International African Student Fellowship! A fellowship of up to $2,000 to support MSU international African students travel to Africa for research. The award honors former Nigerian President Nnamdi Azikiwe, a scholar and
Published: 25 Sep 2024 Type: Fellowship Value: $ 2,000 Deadline: 15 Jan 2025
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program strives to provide access to quality and inclusive education to young people from Sub-Saharan Africa. By 2030, as part of an ambitious new strategy (Young Africa Works), the Foundation aims to enable 30 million young Africans to secure dignified and fu
Published: 24 Sep 2024 Type: Masters Study in: France Deadline: 30 Oct 2024
The IMF is inviting applications for its 2025 Economist Program (EP). As an EP you will join a team of staff working to address key global economic challenges and build a career that will allow you to apply your knowledge, skills, and research to policy related work that directly impacts our 190 mem
Published: 24 Sep 2024 Type: Ph.D Deadline: 06 Dec 2024
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and hosted by the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance in collaboration with the Center for Creative Leadership, IPPHL focuses on individual coaching and mentoring, peer sharing
Published: 24 Sep 2024 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 16 Oct 2024
In 2024, the Trust awarded 21 Scholarships at British and South African universities, by means of generous academic partnerships with leading institutions. Beit Trust Scholarships are for Postgraduate degrees only. We do not provide scholarships for undergraduate work and our postgraduate focus i
Published: 23 Sep 2024 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa, United Kingdom Deadline: 07 Feb 2025
The Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships were established in 2011 to identify and mentor the future generation of outstanding African leaders. During their 12-month programmes, Fellows gain both technical and leadership skills, while contributing directly to research and policy design. A special f
Published: 20 Sep 2024 Type: Fellowship Study in: Switzerland, Uganda Deadline: 20 Oct 2024
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Annually, postgraduate grants and scholarships are awarded to qualified postgraduate Nigerian students, to enable them fund for their studies while studying abroad or in Nigeria.
You can benefit from these grants for postgraduate funded by organizations and universities, by applying for various study opportunities which present themselves as – either postgraduate degree scholarships for masters students or postgraduate research scholarships for PhD students.
Or by applying to postgraduate study abroad scholarships, which provide you with the chance to study at a university overseas.
Below are some of such scholarships which provide postgraduate sponsorship for students like you:
To become a postgraduate scholar, there are eligibility criteria you should meet, especially if you are applying for postgraduate study abroad scholarships.
However, while respective awarding organizations have requirements that are specific them, they’re also general requirements which you must before you are qualified for a scholarship for postgraduate abroad studies.
Some of those requirements are:
Dear applicant, before you can be selected for any of the available scholarships for post graduates, you first have to apply for the scholarship you are interested in and submit all the required documents.
Although this may seem like an easy thing to do (which it is), a simple mistake can cause your application to be rejected by the organisation or university, so you want to do it right.
If you have applied for scholarships in the past and have been rejected, or are applying for the first time, this is how to apply for an online post graduate scholarship.
Application Process:
To apply for a postgraduate scholarship, these are the steps you should take:
Before you apply:
