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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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Published: 06 Feb 2025 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Germany Deadline: 31 Mar 2025
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The UCL Humanitarian Scholarship supports students displaced by armed conflict or at serious risk due to such conflicts. It enables them to pursue a full-time Master’s degree at University College London (UCL). The scholarship provides full financial coverage, including tuition fees, a mainten
Published: 30 Jan 2025 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Value: £20,000 Deadline: 08 May 2025
The UNIV'R – University for Refugees academic corridor program is calling for applications for refugees residing in a first country of asylum who wish to pursue a Master's degree (2 years) at Sciences Po University in Paris. The program provides beneficiaries with facilitated access to
Published: 28 Jan 2025 Type: Masters Study in: France Deadline: 23 Feb 2025
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the main funding body for engineering and physical sciences research in the UK. EPSRC covers a vast range of fields from healthcare technologies to structural engineering, manufacturing to mathematics, advanced materials to chemist
Published: 27 Jan 2025 Type: Ph.D Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
The Emerging Political Leaders Fellowship is an initiative of The Bridge Leadership Foundation. It is a fully-funded, non-partisan Political Leadership development project which nurtures and prepares young Nigerians for leadership at the local, regional and national levels, enhancing the overall qua
Published: 27 Jan 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 28 Feb 2025
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program awards approximately 4,000 grants annually to foreign students to study for a Master’s or Doctorate degree and conduct research on campuses across the United States.
Published: 24 Jan 2025 Type: Ph.D Study in: United States Deadline: Not Specified
The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) has received a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to support the scholarship of women candidates in sub-Saharan Africa. The funding will support the traini
Published: 24 Jan 2025 Type: Ph.D Deadline: 14 Mar 2025
The Adam Smith Business School offers a prestigious combined MRes/PhD training scheme in Economics. It starts with the 2 years MRes programme. Candidates who complete the MRes at a sufficiently high level will be given priority for admission into the 3-4 years PhD stage. Funding is annually renew
Published: 23 Jan 2025 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 01 May 2025
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Published: 21 Jan 2025 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 03 Mar 2025
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The Google DeepMind Scholarships program advances access to higher education by supporting partner universities’ efforts to build a stronger and more inclusive AI community, helping bring a wider range of experiences to AI and AI-adjacent fields. The program supports talented students from
Published: 20 Jan 2025 Type: Masters Deadline: Not Specified
AI for Science is a stream in AIMS South Africa's Master’s degree in Mathematical Science, made possible through a partnership with Google DeepMind. The program sits at the exciting intersection of AI and the Sciences. This exciting program started with its first intake of students in Sept
Published: 17 Jan 2025 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa Deadline: 21 Mar 2025
Université Paris-Saclay aims to promote access for international students to its Master’s programmes, provided by its faculties, component-institutions and associated universities, and to make it easier for highly-qualified international students to join the University, especially for t
Published: 15 Jan 2025 Type: Masters Study in: France Deadline: 09 May 2025
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Published: 31 Dec 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Russian Federation Deadline: 28 Apr 2025
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The Erasmus Mundus REPLAY Scholarship is the two-year European Master Program, where students from across the globe come together with the objective of designing, experimenting and developing meaningful game experiences. REPLAY is split between three games universities in three different European
Published: 31 Dec 2024 Type: Masters Study in: Belgium, Finland, Portugal Deadline: 17 Jan 2025
The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme cultivates the leaders of tomorrow by providing an opportunity for outstanding university graduates and professionals mainly from developing and emerging economies, but also those who would not otherwise be able to support themselves, to
Published: 27 Dec 2024 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
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Published: 23 Dec 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: China, Hungary, Romania, Russian Federation Deadline: 12 Jan 2025
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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards (formerly the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships) recognize promising graduate-student researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence. The Foundation welcomes proposals from
Published: 19 Dec 2024 Type: Ph.D Deadline: 01 Feb 2025
The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) invites applications for its ninth Writing Fellowship programme, which will run from 1 April – 30 June 2025. The 2025 Writing Fellowship centers on the theme of Global Blackness. At JIAS, we use the term “global Blackness&rdqu
Published: 19 Dec 2024 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 04 Jan 2025
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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:
