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
Applications are invited from suitably qualified applicants for the WiSTEM2D Scholars Award program Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Services. The goal of the award is to fuel the research passion of the awarded women and inspire career paths in their respective STEM2D fields. Johnson &am
Published: 07 Sep 2021 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 27 Sep 2021
Applications for the Innovation Fellowship for Aspiring Inventors and Researchers (i-FAIR) 2021/2022 are now open. The Innovation Fellowship for Aspiring Inventors and Researchers is an initiative for raising a generation of innovators, inventors and researchers in Nigeria. This 9-month
Published: 03 Sep 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 30 Sep 2021
Applications are open for the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program 2022-2024. CIFAR invites exceptional early-career researchers from across the natural, biomedical and social sciences and the humanities to join one of their interdisciplinary research programs that address some of the most importan
Published: 01 Sep 2021 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 27 Oct 2021
Applications are open for the Nanyang Assistant Professorship Program 2022. Launched in July 2007, the Nanyang Assistant Professorship (NAP) Scheme is Nanyang Technological University’s elite faculty recruitment program aimed at attracting and recruiting outstanding young scientists and r
Published: 30 Aug 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Singapore Deadline: 30 Sep 2021
Established by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong in 2009, the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD studies in Hong Kong’s universities. The HKPFS supports the awardees to pursue their PhD studies at
Published: 25 Aug 2021 Type: Ph.D Study in: Hong Kong Deadline: 01 Dec 2021
The grant is open to all international applicants who desire to study a master’s programme in the area of International Economics at the University of Milan. The students that hold a relevant bachelor’s degree certification are eligible and will be considered for the award cove
Published: 24 Aug 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Italy Deadline: 14 Sep 2021
Halcyon Fellowships equip early-stage social entrepreneurs with the tools and relationships they need to achieve scalable, lasting impact. They are currently accepting applications for: Halcyon’s Flagship Residential Fellowship: The fellowship that launched the Halcyon Incub
Published: 23 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 08 Oct 2021
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 and as they spur growth and prosperity, strengthen democratic governance, and enhance peace and security across Africa an
Published: 18 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 15 Sep 2021
Through a generous founding gift from Edward O. Wilson, Faculty-Curator Emeritus and University Research Professor Emeritus, and with support from additional donors, the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard University has established the E.O. Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This pr
Published: 10 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 30 Sep 2021
Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) invites qualified and eligible African researchers to apply for the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) Research Development Fellowship programme being instituted to support researchers in Africa who are working on important human health chal
Published: 06 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Sep 2021
The United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) under its Youth4South initiative and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) have partnered to offer exchange visits to early-career female scientists from the Global South. The exchange visits of 6-
Published: 05 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Sep 2021
Applications are invited for the MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship 2021. The Fellowship is designed to support a Black filmmaker, artist, journalist, or creative technologist, who uses emerging technology to make nonfiction experiences. The mission of the Fellowship is to encourage and deve
Published: 04 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 08 Aug 2021
The Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA), in line with its mission of contributing to the development of Africa through the drive of its women, is launching the 7th Edition of SCIENCE BY WOMEN programme, with the aim to promote African women’s leadership in scientific research and technology tra
Published: 26 Jul 2021 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 30 Sep 2021
Applications are invited for the MDPI – Water Best PhD Thesis Award 2021. This prize will be awarded to a PhD student who is about to graduate or participate in the graduation thesis
Published: 19 Jul 2021 Type: Ph.D Deadline: 10 Nov 2021
Applications are for the Gratitude Network Fellowship 2022. The Gratitude Network Fellowship is a 12-month virtual leadership development program designed to help social entrepreneurs hone their leadership skills, work with their teams more effectively, and increase their organization’s i
Published: 17 Jul 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 20 Aug 2021
Apply for British Ecological Grants 2021 for Ecologists in Africa.This grant provides support for ecologists in Africa to carry out innovative ecological research.it recognizes that ecologists in Africa face-unique challenges in carrying out research.our grant is designed to support you to develop y
Published: 15 Jul 2021 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 10 Sep 2021
Queen Mary University of London invites applications for a full PhD Scholarship starting in January 2022 (or as soon as possible thereafter) to undertake research in the area of Resource Management for Edge/Serverless Computing.
Published: 14 Jul 2021 Type: Ph.D Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 15 Sep 2021
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: 13 Jul 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Oct 2021
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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: