Menu
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 Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), operator of the SPDC Joint Venture, is delighted to announce the tenth annual NNPC/SPDC_JV Niger Delta Postgraduate Scholarship for applicants from Bayelsa, Delta, Imo and Rivers states.The objective of the scholarship prog
Published: 05 Nov 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is Africa’s first network of centres of excellence in mathematical sciences. We enable the continent’s youth to shape the continent’s future through Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) education- training Africa&r
Published: 04 Nov 2021 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa Deadline: 10 Nov 2021
The Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship gives you the confidence, resources, knowledge, network, and financial support to build a startup with an impact. For African students and recent grads with a desire to solve pressing problems and bring entrepreneurial ideas to life, the progra
Published: 04 Nov 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Nov 2021
The Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford University announces its Postdoctoral Fellowship which is awarded to promising young scholars with innovative and rigorous work related to global hunger, poverty alleviation, and environment degradation. The Center on&nbs
Published: 02 Nov 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 01 Dec 2021
Applications are open for the International Monetray Fund (IMF) Economist Program 2022. Joining the IMF as part of the Economist Program (EP), will jump-start your career by giving you hands-on exposure to a cross-section of IMF work and an opportunity to apply your research and analytical skil
Published: 02 Nov 2021 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: Not Specified
Wageningen University Africa Scholarship Programme offers talented and motivated students from Africa the unique opportunity to pursue a Master’s degree at Wageningen University and to support capacity building in Africa.
Published: 01 Nov 2021 Type: Masters Study in: Netherlands Deadline: 03 Jan 2022
This partnership between Africa Leadership Initiative West Africa (ALIWA) and the Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy Abuja, seeks to build leadership capacity, promote active citizenship and mobilize grassroot impact by youths at community and state levels in Nigeria. Targeted at Nigerians betw
Published: 01 Nov 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 07 Nov 2021
.png)
International applicants are hereby invited to apply for the Chinese Government Scholarship for the 2022/2023 academic session. The scholarships in China for international students is hosted by the Harbin Institute of Technology, one of China’s first six leading universities. The university
Published: 29 Oct 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: China Deadline: 31 Mar 2022
Applications are open for the Rockefeller Foundation-Acumen Food Systems Fellowship 2022. The Fellowship is an intensive, one-year leadership development program offered through Acumen Academy, the world’s school for social change. The inaugural Food Systems Fellowship will introduce m
Published: 28 Oct 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Dec 2021
.jpg)
The University of Amsterdam is currently inviting international students outside the EU/EEA countries to apply for the Amsterdam Merit Scholarship (AMS) – a scholarship covers the tuition fee and part of the living for one academic year with the possibility of extension for a second year
Published: 27 Oct 2021 Type: Masters Study in: Netherlands Deadline: 15 Jan 2022
The Maastricht University Holland High Potential Scholarship consists of a High Potential Scholarship combined with a Holland Scholarship. The High Potential Scholarship is intended for excellent students from outside the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) who wish to do a m
Published: 26 Oct 2021 Type: Masters Study in: Netherlands Deadline: 01 Feb 2022
Applications are invited from interested candidates to apply for the DAAD scholarship in the following programs in School of Education, Moi University: Master of Education in Research PhD in Sociology of Education As part of the „In-Country/In-Region Scholarship Programme&ld
Published: 25 Oct 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Kenya Deadline: 15 Dec 2021
Applications are open for the United Nations SDSN Youth Local Pathways Fellowship 2022. By way of recognizing youth as the key player in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and building on the success of the past cohorts of the Local Pathways Fellows, the UN Sustainable Development Solution
Published: 24 Oct 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 21 Nov 2021
.png)
: A 1-month stay at the Nordic Africa Institute in order to facilitate use of the Institute’s library collections on contemporary Africa, and to create links to existing research at the Institute. The scholarships are awarded once per year. The aim of the scholarship progra
Published: 24 Oct 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Sweden Deadline: 31 Oct 2021
Applications are invited from qualified postgraduate candidates for the Oxford Pershing Square Scholarship for postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom. The Pershing Square Foundation awards full scholarships to support outstanding students on the 1+1 MBA, covering both the Master&rsq
Published: 23 Oct 2021 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 12 Jan 2022
Applications for the African ChangeMakers Fellowship Program 2022 are now open. The Program selects impressive African visionaries, changemakers, game-changers, impact-makers, agent of change, movers and shakers of enterprise and innovation to train, upskills and empower them with globally
Published: 22 Oct 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Nov 2021
Gates Cambridge Scholarships are highly competitive full-cost scholarships. They are awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. The Gates Cambridge Scholarships programme aims to b
Published: 21 Oct 2021 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 06 Jan 2022
Applications are now being received for the 2022 Global social entrepreneurial development Fellowship Program supported by Echoing Green aimed at young and innovative young minds across the globe and hope to help them grow their innovative start-ups while they themselves grow to become imp
Published: 20 Oct 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 02 Nov 2021
A friend or someone might be interested in these opportunities, kindly share.
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:
