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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
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Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance is a platform for highly educated young African social, business and political entrepreneurs, attending leading universities in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Our mission is to capture, inform and engage Africa’s global intellectual capital in the d
Published: 23 Aug 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 30 Sep 2022
Do you belong to a cadre of talented early-career African scientists who wish to be trained abroad and return to their home institutions and become scientific leaders in their community, help solve Africa’s challenges in global health and development, and become trainers for the
Published: 22 Aug 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Sep 2022
Eisenhower Fellowships identifies, empowers and connects innovative leaders through a transformative fellowship experience and lifelong engagement in a global network of dynamic change agents committed to creating a world more peaceful, prosperous and just. In spring 2023, Eisenhower Fellow
Published: 22 Aug 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 01 Oct 2022
AfricaLics (African Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems) is looking for suitable PhD student candidates from universities in African countries to participate in the Visiting Fellowship Programme focused on Innovation and Development. The aim of the visiti
Published: 19 Aug 2022 Type: Ph.D Study in: Kenya Deadline: 15 Sep 2022
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The Fellowship brings young leaders to the United States for academic coursework and leadership training and creates unique opportunities for Fellows and Americans to collaborate as they spur growth and prosperity, strengthen democratic governance, and enhance peace and security across Africa and th
Published: 17 Aug 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 13 Sep 2022
The GEM Fellowship was designed to focus on promoting opportunities for individuals to enter industry at the graduate level in areas such as research and development, product development, and other high level technical careers. GEM also offers exposure to a number of opportunities in academia. Th
Published: 16 Aug 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Oct 2022
UMAPS welcome direct applications from faculty members of colleges or universities from Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda. Applicants from other countries in Africa cannot apply directly to UMAPS but need to be nominated b
Published: 16 Aug 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United States Deadline: 15 Oct 2022
The scholarship aims to support students from all over the world who wish to advance their educational career in any discipline at the university. The award is for 1 or 2 years Master’s degree programme.
Published: 15 Aug 2022 Type: Masters Study in: Netherlands Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
For the DAAD MIPLC Scholarships, The Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) is offering awards to students from developing countries as a part of the DAAD’s program for “Development-Related Postgraduate Courses.” With its development-oriented postg
Published: 12 Apr 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Germany Deadline: 15 Oct 2022
Every year ICTP’s Mathematics section offers several fellowships for scientists working in developing countries for short visits to the Centre. This year, the visitor’s programme is partially supported by the International Mathematical Union. For more than 50 years, the Abdus Salam In
Published: 12 Aug 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Sep 2022
Gatefield Impact is inviting applications from Nigerian journalists for its inaugural Pro-Health Policy Journalism Fellowship. The fellowship is an initiative of Gatefield Impact, a recipient of the Healthy Food Advocacy Fund. Gatefield Impact, through the National Action for Sugar Reduction, led
Published: 12 Aug 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 22 Aug 2022
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at UCT provides full-cost scholarships to young Africans who are first-time undergraduate or postgraduate (honours and master’s) degree-seeking applicants. The scholarships ensure a premium educational package that will produce graduates whose qualifi
Published: 10 Aug 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: South Africa Deadline: 25 Sep 2022
The 2022 IMF Youth Fellowship Program provides an opportunity for young participants to become part of the global efforts to build forward better and join the IMF at the forefront of the response to the global economic challenges. Participants will have virtual access to the IMF Annual Meetings and
Published: 11 Aug 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 20 Aug 2022
The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health at the University of Ghana, invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for a place in a full-time postgraduate programme with a focus on Implementation Research for the 2022–2023 academic year. Funding for these full
Published: 09 Aug 2022 Type: Masters Study in: Ghana Deadline: 09 Sep 2022
The Programme is of international prominence in its mission to preserve documentary heritage at risk of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. EAP funds projects from all over the world, to create digital copies of collections and deposit these both locally and within the British Libr
Published: 08 Aug 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Nov 2022
The Programme started in 2012 and aims to promote capacity building and research activities in UNESCO’s Member States in the field of science and engineering. Beneficiaries of these fellowships are given the opportunity to undertake an individual research programme in the field of Scienc
Published: 05 Aug 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Poland Deadline: 15 Aug 2022
The Meta Research PhD Fellowship is a global program designed to encourage and support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant research in areas related to computer science and engineering at an accredited university. Having funded over 200 students from around the
Published: 04 Aug 2022 Type: Ph.D Deadline: 20 Sep 2022
The MasterCard University of California, Berkeley Masters Scholarships 2023/2024 for African Students will provide holistic support – financial, academic, social, and career counselling – to Masters students from Sub-Saharan Africa from 2020 to 2028. Administered out o
Published: 04 Aug 2022 Type: Masters Study in: United States Deadline: 22 Sep 2022
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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:
