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: 05 Feb 2024 Type: Fellowship Value: USD5,000 Deadline: 10 May 2024
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Published: 05 Feb 2024 Type: Fellowship Study in: Egypt Deadline: 29 Feb 2024
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Published: 05 Feb 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Nigeria Value: USD100,000 Deadline: 30 Apr 2024
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Published: 05 Feb 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Nigeria Value: USD10,000 Deadline: 02 Apr 2024
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Published: 02 Feb 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Australia Deadline: 30 Apr 2024
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Published: 02 Feb 2024 Type: Fellowship Study in: South Africa Value: R2,500,000 Deadline: 13 Feb 2024
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Published: 02 Feb 2024 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 25 Aug 2024
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Published: 02 Feb 2024 Type: Masters Study in: Australia Deadline: 30 Apr 2024
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Published: 01 Feb 2024 Type: Masters Study in: France Deadline: 05 Mar 2024
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Published: 30 Jan 2024 Type: Fellowship Study in: Japan Deadline: 10 Mar 2024
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Published: 30 Jan 2024 Type: MBA Study in: United Kingdom Value: US$102,200 Deadline: 31 May 2025
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Published: 29 Jan 2024 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 31 Jan 2024
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Published: 29 Jan 2024 Type: Fellowship Study in: Thailand Deadline: 29 Feb 2024
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Published: 29 Jan 2024 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 Mar 2024
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Published: 29 Jan 2024 Type: Ph.D Study in: Central African Republic Deadline: 19 Feb 2024
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Published: 26 Jan 2024 Type: Fellowship Study in: Spain Deadline: 02 May 2024
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Published: 26 Jan 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Belgium Value: €10.000 Deadline: 28 Apr 2024
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Published: 26 Jan 2024 Type: Masters Deadline: 30 Jan 2024
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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: