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
The Graduate School of Economic and Management Sciences' call for applications is open from the 13th of June to 1 August 2022 and will recruit for full-time PhD scholarship positions, funded by the Graduate School to a maximum of R138 000 per year for three years. T
Published: 11 Jul 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: South Africa Deadline: 01 Aug 2022
The Fellowship is in search of creative proposals addressing accelerated delivery and adoption of improved soil fertility management in Africa. The Fellowship will support education, training, and communication programs relevant to improving the use and efficiency of plant nutrients in African ag
Published: 09 Jul 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 31 Aug 2022
The West African Research Association (WARA), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, is pleased to announce support for young West African scholars through its Ideas Matter Doctoral Fellowship program. This program reflects our joint commitment to increasing opportunities for emerging West
Published: 09 Jul 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 14 Aug 2022
The Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme is set up under the Pan-African Programme (Development Cooperation Instrument) and is based on the experience of the Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme. The programme’s objective is to improve the skills and competences of students and staff through
Published: 07 Jul 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 13 Aug 2022
Named in honor of NED’s principal founders, former president Ronald Reagan and the late congressman Dante Fascell (D-Fl.), the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program is a federally funded, international exchange program that offers democracy activists, journalists, civil society leaders, and
Published: 06 Jul 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 17 Oct 2022
The ACI Foundation offers several Fellowship and undergraduate Scholarship opportunities for students and E-Members. ACI Foundation Fellowships and Scholarships are awarded annually to help students with an interest in concrete achieve their educational and career goals. The student must be co
Published: 06 Jul 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Nov 2022
Ms. Matilda Mwaba was co-founder of the Zambia National Organisation for Women in Sport Physical Activity and Recreation (NOWSPAR) where she served as Chief Executive Officer. She was also the Africa representative on the Global Executive of the International Working Group on Women in Sport (I
Published: 05 Jul 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 01 Aug 2022
Surrey is pleased to announce a brand new scholarship scheme aimed at welcoming new masters students to Surrey from seven different countries. The awards are named as follows: Surrey India Masters Scholarship 2022 Surrey Thailand Masters Scholarship 2022 Surrey Nigeria Masters Schola
Published: 05 Jul 2022 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified
The Roger Casement fellowship has been established to honour the memory of the Irish human rights activist Roger Casement who spent some of his early working life in Calabar, Nigeria. He was an early advocate for human rights while in Nigeria, and, famously, during his later work in the Congo, the A
Published: 05 Jul 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ireland Deadline: 31 Jul 2022
The 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. The Fellowship has three compone
Published: 04 Jul 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 Aug 2022
Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, practitioners, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world. Based in Radcliffe Yard – A sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University fellows join a u
Published: 04 Jul 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 29 Sep 2022
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) has been carrying out the RONPAKU (Dissertation PhD) Program since 1978. The aim of JSPS RONPAKU (Dissertation PhD) Program is to provide tutorial and financial support for promising researchers in Asia and Africa or other specified countries
Published: 01 Jul 2022 Type: Ph.D Study in: Japan Deadline: 19 Aug 2022
The CatchLight Global Fellowship serves as an incubator — a place for innovative leaders in the visual storytelling field to receive financial support, unlock individual potential, grow and leverage partnerships. The Fellowship cultivates a vibrant community of creative thought leaders whos
Published: 30 Jun 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 17 Jul 2022
The Findhelp Fellowship Program believes that people working within their own communities have the greatest impact. That’s why they are proud to bring together people from across the nation that is committed to making a difference in the neighborhoods through their fellowship program. The p
Published: 29 Jun 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 Jul 2022
The project will use the latest tools of social epistemology and virtue epistemology in order to put our understanding of online inquiry and information sharing on an entirely new footing, to better understand the sources of online epistemic risk, and to better train ourselves to navigate them skilf
Published: 26 Jun 2022 Type: Ph.D Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 30 Jun 2022
The ASC Leiden hosts visiting research fellows in the framework of the Leiden African Studies Assembly (Leiden ASA), a network for cooperation between Leiden based Africanists. Visiting research fellows use their time in Leiden for data analysis and/or writing, often on a joint project with one
Published: 26 Jun 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Netherlands Deadline: 24 Jul 2022
The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) is dedicated to research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, with ‘Sustainable Governance’ as its central topic. Our main thematic corridors are conflict and sustainable peace, democracy and environmental transf
Published: 26 Jun 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana Deadline: 31 Aug 2022
The Bosco Tso & Emily Ng Scholarship Programme is a fund to help support all students who are able to demonstrate need of financial assistance, to undertake the one year LLM Law programme at King's. The scholarships are worth £22,500 (Home/EU/International) and are intended to&nbs
Published: 23 Jun 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 29 Jul 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: