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
The Utrecht Excellence Scholarship offers a number of graduate scholarship awards to highly talented prospective international students, with the opportunity to pursue a degree in a selected number of fields at Utrecht University. The scholarship programme is highly selective. Only candidates showin
Published: 31 Jan 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Netherlands Deadline: 31 Jan 2023
MINDS offers scholarships to Africans who wish to pursue post-graduate studies within Africa, outside of their own countries. Through tailored leadership development activities, the MINDS Scholarship Program aims to nurture leaders with a continental development mindset; leaders who will f
Published: 30 Jan 2023 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: Not Specified
Halmstad University offers a number of scholarships to qualified students from outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland. These scholarships may be granted to students within any field of study at Halmstad University. Each year Halmstad University offers a number of scholarships to students from outside
Published: 30 Jan 2023 Type: Masters Study in: Sweden Deadline: 15 Mar 2023
The Leakey Foundation offers Baldwin Fellowship Research Grants/training for applicants from developing countries in the field of human origins, including paleoanthropology, primate behavior, and studies of modern hunter-gatherer groups to study at Home and host institutions. Eligible coun
Published: 30 Jan 2023 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Mar 2023
The University of Toronto through School of Graduate Studies is currently inviting applications from exceptional and eligible students for Ontario Graduate Scholarship for International students who wish to enrol in a degree program for 2023-2024 academic session at the University. The
Published: 30 Jan 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Canada Deadline: 01 Jun 2023
The Humphrey Fellowship Programme, a Fulbright Exchange, builds connections between U.S. and foreign leaders to advance solutions to the most pressing global challenges, from combatting climate change to protecting human rights, increasing access to education, and building global health security.
Published: 30 Jan 2023 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: Not Specified
The EU-ECOWAS Scholarship programme provides scholarships for masters’ degrees in the sustainable energy sector at specialised universities in West Africa (Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo) for the benefit of eligible students from ECOWAS member states involved in
Published: 27 Jan 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Cape Verde, Nigeria, Senegal Deadline: 10 Feb 2023
The Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES) at the National Science Foundation supports annual three-week summer institutes on Empirical Implications of Theoretical Model that seek to train a new generation of scholars who can better link positive theory and empirical work. The Summer In
Published: 27 Jan 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United States Deadline: 28 Feb 2023
Mechatronics encompasses a range of technologies that empower a variety of daily life applications ranging from automation of household equipment through to “smart” manufacturing, self-driving cars, surgical robots and robotic space exploration. Delivered at Ashesi University by faculty
Published: 18 Jun 2023 Type: Masters Study in: Ghana, Switzerland Deadline: 31 Jul 2023
AI for Science is a new stream in AIMS South Africa’s Master’s degree in Mathematical Science, made possible through a partnership with DeepMind. The program sits at the exciting intersection of AI and the Sciences. It is a fully residential one-year taught masters with a research compon
Published: 27 Jan 2023 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa Deadline: 08 Mar 2023
Commonwealth Split-site Scholarships support one year’s study at a UK university as part of a PhD being undertaken in a candidate’s home country, under the joint supervision of a home country and UK supervisor. The 12-month period of study in the UK supported by the scholarship can be
Published: 27 Jan 2023 Type: Ph.D Deadline: 02 Mar 2023
Linnaeus University offers scholarships to outstanding students from countries outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland through the programme “Linnaeus University Scholarships” and “Linnaeus University Scholarship for Current Students”. Applications are hereby invited
Published: 27 Jan 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Sweden Deadline: 20 Feb 2023
The Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program brings international educators to the United States for a six-week professional learning program featuring academic seminars at a host university and co-teaching placements at area schools. Participants observe classrooms, team-teach, and sha
Published: 27 Jan 2023 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United States Deadline: Not Specified
The Einstein Forum and the Daimler and Benz Foundation are offering a fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in th
Published: 26 Jan 2023 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: 15 May 2023
The Association of Anaesthetists announce LMIC-based Editorial Fellowship starting September 2023.Two journals of the Association of Anaesthetists – Anaesthesia and Anaesthesia Reports – are offering an extension of their established editorial fellowship sch
Published: 25 Jan 2023 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 31 May 2023
The ICTD will fund up to four PhD students from countries in Africa and South Asia to start in September 2023. Students will receive full scholarships including university fees, a stipend in line with UK research council funding (currently 17,668 GBP per year), and other benefits such as funds to at
Published: 25 Jan 2023 Type: Ph.D Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 15 Mar 2023
The Department of Modern Languages, in conjunction with the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic at Carnegie Mellon University, invites application for a 2-year, non-renewable postdoctoral fellowship in Black Europeans Studies. We encourage scholars with deep interest in the study of c
Published: 24 Jan 2023 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 03 Mar 2023
The MAEC-AECID Scholarship Programs are available to citizens of Latin American, African, and Asian countries who want to study in Spain.
Published: 24 Jan 2023 Type: Masters Study in: Spain Deadline: 10 Feb 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: