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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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The Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship provides academic and professional opportunities to advance the reporting skills of women and nonbinary journalists who focus on human rights and social justice. The Fellowship was created in memory of The Boston Globe correspondent and IWMF Courage in Journali
Published: 09 Mar 2023 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 23 Apr 2023
The UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100 PhDs for Africa programme is one of the three pillars of the Excellence in Africa initiative. It is designed to fund science and engineering graduates intending to complete a PhD at an African higher education institution. PhD candidates benefiting from a UM6P/EPFL EXAF 100
Published: 09 Mar 2023 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 18 Apr 2023
We are recruiting an ‘Oppenheimer Impact Scholar’, a 2-2.5 year training post that combines a full scholarship to undertake a 12-month MSc in Global Sustainability Solutions at the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus in the UK, followed by a research associate post ba
Published: 09 Mar 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 03 Apr 2023
The World Bank Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program (RSMFP) matches aspiring development economics researchers from developing countries with World Bank research economists, creating unique opportunities for the fellows to participate in rigorous policy-relevant research in the Worl
Published: 08 Mar 2023 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 03 Apr 2023
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites joint proposals from African academics in the diaspora and within universities in Africa for the African Academic Diaspora Visiting Fellowships to African universities. This call targets African scholars in the d
Published: 08 Mar 2023 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda Deadline: 15 Mar 2023
The University of Lincoln’s Africa Scholarship is designed to help students from across Africa to access postgraduate level study at the University of Lincoln. The Africa Scholarship is offered as a tuition fee discount against the cost of a postgraduate taught programme commencing in 2023/24.
Published: 07 Mar 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 01 Dec 2023
Applications are invited from African nationals for scholarships in the fields of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering and Biomaterials/Biomedical Engineering. In this ELbM scholarships call, a total of 22 scholarships comprising
Published: 07 Mar 2023 Type: Ph.D Study in: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Deadline: 31 Mar 2023
The objective of the Programme is to promote socio-economic progress of developing countries by raising the level of knowledge and education of their citizens in the form of scholarships for second-degree studies in Polish or in English at Polish universities supervised by the Minister of Education
Published: 07 Mar 2023 Type: Masters Study in: Poland Deadline: 31 Mar 2023
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Heinrich Böll Stiftung is pleased to announce the opening of application for the 2023/2024 Heinrich Böll Foundation Grants and Scholarships to approximately 1400 undergraduates, graduates and doctoral students of all nationalities. The scholarship aims to support stu
Published: 06 Mar 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Germany Deadline: 01 Sep 2023
The University of Melbourne is inviting applications for its over 150 bursaries and academic scholarships numbering approximately 250 yearly. The awards have been established by various generous bequests and donations to assist students in financial need. The Univers
Published: 06 Mar 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Australia Deadline: 08 Mar 2023
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Call for applications - META has provided bursary funding to support the attendance of emerging researchers at the AI4D Conference (supported by the IDRC, Niyel and GIZ: Fair Forward), to be held in Kigali, June 12-14, 2023. The African Observatory on Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Published: 06 Mar 2023 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 07 Apr 2023
The Africa Plant Nutrition Scholarship Program seeks to support African graduates in science fields related to plant nutrition and the management of nutrients applied to crops. Intending applicants must be attending a degree-granting institution located in Africa.
Published: 03 Mar 2023 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 30 Apr 2023
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The Global Voices Scholarship programme is available to an applicant who has applied for a place on the MA Creative Writing Prose Fiction, Biography and Creative Non-Fiction, Scriptwriting or Poetry in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing who is a national of any country within
Published: 03 Mar 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 05 May 2023
The Mastercard Foundation has partnered with the University of Cape Town (UCT) to oversee the implementation of financial, academic, social and post-graduation support to awarded candidates under the scholarship titled The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Cape Town. The vi
Published: 03 Mar 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: South Africa Deadline: 31 Mar 2023
The Education for Sustainable Energy Development (ESED) scholarship program inspires the next generation of innovators and thinkers to create a sustainable future. Our scholars are exceptional students from developing countries studying in sustainable energy development. Today, the need for globally
Published: 03 Mar 2023 Type: Masters Deadline: 07 Apr 2023
This year, in partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, the University of Edinburgh will be offering five scholarships for students, across China, India, Nigeria, Turkey and Vietnam applying for an eligible one-year postgraduate Masters programme for the 2023-2024 academic
Published: 03 Mar 2023 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 30 Mar 2023
The Miles Morland Foundation African Scholarship is awarded to a Postgraduate student within the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing to enable them to study on the MA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) course.
Published: 12 Apr 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 05 May 2023
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With a view to recruiting and promoting new Animation talents, Netflix and GOBELINS are currently offering six scholarships for students from the African continent for the September 2023 intake. This two-year course taught in English is designed to enable students to reach a professional level no
Published: 01 Mar 2023 Type: Masters Study in: France Deadline: 02 Mar 2023
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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:
