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 2026-2027, 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 Volkswagen Foundation-funded research project “Sensitive Provenances” investigates the provenance of human remains from (proto-)colonial contexts in two collections at the University of Göttingen. This project aims to investigate the origin of human remains, the circumstances of
Published: 07 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: 01 Mar 2022
University of Southern Denmark offers Danish Government Scholarships – supported by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science – to certain applicants in recognition of the important investment that oversea students make during their education.
Published: 07 Jan 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Denmark Deadline: 01 Feb 2022
The eFounders Fellowship provides first-hand exposure to eCommerce and digital innovations, access to business leaders across Alibaba and China, as well as an opportunity to connect with like-minded, leading entrepreneurs in your region. The fellowship is a community of passionate and succe
Published: 06 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified
St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, in partnership with the international integrated energy company Eni, is offering up to three students from Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, or the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) the opportunity to study for a fully funded degree in 2022/
Published: 06 Jan 2022 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 01 Mar 2022
The purpose of this program is to promote academic excellence by offering scholarships to foreign students who are citizens of an African or European country (other than France*) and are admitted to a master’s program at Université Laval. This scholarship of $7,000 per year 
Published: 06 Jan 2022 Type: Masters Deadline: 01 Feb 2022
Applications for the Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarship Program 2022-2023 is now open. This Foundation provides a limited number of scholarships each year for postgraduate studies to outstanding students from select developing countries who have no other means of finan
Published: 06 Jan 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 31 Mar 2022
Goldsmith University of London with support from the British Council is offering fully-funded British Council Scholarships for Women in STEM enrolled in eligible courses in the University for the 2022/23 academic year. The scholarships have been created with the aim to help address the
Published: 05 Jan 2022 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 01 Apr 2022
Mauritius Africa Scholarships 2022-2023: As part of its commitment to promote capacity-building at high level across the continent, the Government of Mauritius is awarding scholarships to deserving students who are resident citizens of member states of the African Union 
Published: 07 Jul 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Mauritius Deadline: 30 Oct 2022
Applications are open for the VLIR-UOS ICP Connect Scholarship for Master Program 2022. ICP Connect study programs are accredited international study programs organised at one or more Flemish universities. The programs focus on subjects aligned with the Agenda 2030 and SDG principles. VLIR-U
Published: 05 Jan 2022 Type: Masters Study in: Belgium Deadline: Not Specified
Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund (Taiwan ICDF) offers Higher Education Scholarship Program for international students to study for Undergraduate (4 years), Masters (2 years) and PhD (4 years) Degrees at renowned partner universities in Taiwan 2022. International edu
Published: 05 Jan 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Taiwan, Province of China Deadline: 15 Mar 2022
The programme provides the opportunity to do a PhD in applied mathematics. Each year, four to five new scholarship holders can be selected for the programme. The condition for funding is that the countries of origin of the scholarship holders are classified as developing countries according to the O
Published: 04 Jan 2022 Type: Masters Study in: Germany Deadline: 15 Jan 2022
The Africa Institute, as part of its African Languages and Translation Program, announces the Tejumola Olaniyan Writers-in-Residence Fellowship. This residency program is created in honor of the late Nigerian Professor Tejumola Olaniyan and his remarkable intellectual legacy in the field of African
Published: 04 Jan 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 28 Feb 2022
This is to inform the public that Federal Government scholarship application form is ongoing. The Honourable Minister of Education (HME), Mallam Adamu Adamu, hereby invites interested and qualified Nigerians to participate in the 2022/2023 Federal Government Scholarship Awards for:
Published: 23 Dec 2021 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
Applications are open for the Health Data Analytics Graduate Fellowship? 2022. The goal of this fellowship is to build capacity for Health Data Analytics and related areas at higher academic and research levels. This fellowship will inform the next phase of technological innovations/inventio
Published: 23 Dec 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 08 Jan 2022
The Higher Education Authority (HEA) is pleased to issue the 2022 Call under the Government of Ireland International Education Scholarships Programme. Under the initiative 60 scholarships will be provided for one year study at Bachelor, Masters or PhD levels to successful candidates who have an offe
Published: 22 Dec 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Ireland Deadline: 25 Mar 2022
This scholarship under the patronage of Excellency Jean-Claude Juncker allows students engaged in the ideas, principles, values and future of the European Union as well as the economic, technological and social development of the European continent, to pursue their studies at a prestigious European
Published: 21 Dec 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Austria Deadline: 31 Mar 2022
The University of Lagos is now accepting applications from suitably qualified students into the UNILAG School of Postgraduate Studies Trust Fund Grant for students. It is a fully-funded scholarship for all students. To assist intellectually brilliant students in research work, engender capac
Published: 20 Dec 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Nigeria Deadline: Not Specified
Are you interested in studying in Romania on full scholarship? As a foreign student from anywhere around the globe (except EU member countries) you can now apply for the Government of Romania scholarships for foreign citizens. The scholarships are fully funded study opp
Published: 20 Dec 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Romania Deadline: 15 Mar 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: