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Postgraduate Scholarships for Nigerian students 2024-2025

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 2024-2025, 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

  • Mastercard Foundation/Arizona State University Scholarship Program for African Students 2024

     In partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, Arizona State University will provide a 9-month comprehensive academic and practical training in artificial intelligence (AI) and business for selected Mastercard Foundation Scholars. The Program seeks to cultivate leadership, entrepreneurship and

    Published: 25 Apr 2024 Type: Bauchi Study in: Deadline: 06 May 2024

  • 2024 Dublin City University Business School John Thompson Scholarship

    John Thompson is accepting application from international students from all over the world who wish to pursue their masters studies at Dublin City University Business School, Ireland for academic year 2024-2025 The MSc in Digital Marketing is designed to help participants understand how digi

    Published: 24 Apr 2024 Type: Bauchi Study in: Deadline: 30 Jul 2024

  • PAGES Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program for Early-Career Scientists 2024

    The program aims to give limited support for travel and subsistence to early-career researchers from African countries (PhD students and postdocs at African institutions), who are interested in gaining experience in another African country. The final goal is to contribute to the development of colla

    Published: 23 Apr 2024 Type: Anambra Deadline: 15 Aug 2024

  • TWAS-ICCBS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Developing Countries 2024

    The International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) — comprising the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry and the Dr. Panjwani Centre for Molecular and Drug Research in Karachi, Pakistan — and TWAS offer fellowships to young scientists from developing countries (other

    Published: 19 Apr 2024 Type: Anambra Deadline: 17 Jul 2024

  • TWAS-NCP Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Developing Countries 2024

    TWAS-NCP Postdoctoral Fellowships are tenable in the departments and laboratories of the National Centre for Physics (NCP) for a minimum period of six months to a maximum period of twelve months in one of the following fields: Plasma Physics, High Energy Physics (Experimental and

    Published: 19 Apr 2024 Type: Anambra Study in: Deadline: 01 Jul 2024

  • King`s College London Fellowships for African Women in Leadership and Peacebuilding 2024

    This award is available to young African women, particularly from conflict-affected contexts, interested in pursuing research, policy and practice careers in the field/s of peace, security and development. The fellowship programme is designed to expose African women to security and peacebuilding app

    Published: 16 Apr 2024 Type: Anambra Deadline: 30 Apr 2024

  • KCL Fellowships for African Scholars in Peace, Security and Development 2024

    This award is available to young African scholars who are interested in pursuing research and academiccareers in peace, security, and development. It encompasses an eighteen-month period, comprising rigorous academic research, writing and policy analysis in the field of peace and security, and

    Published: 16 Apr 2024 Type: Anambra Study in: Deadline: 30 Apr 2024

  • DAAD Helmut-Schmidt Masters Scholarship for Developing Countries (Fully-funded) 2025

    The DAAD Helmut-Schmidt-Programme (known as Public Policy and Good Governance) supports future leaders from developing countries (see list of countries), who want to promote democracy and social justice in their home countries. The programme, which is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, off

    Published: 16 Apr 2024 Type: Bauchi Study in: Value: € 934 Deadline: 31 Jul 2024

  • DAAD Leadership for Africa Scholarship for African Students (Fully-funded) 2024

    The scholarship programme “Leadership for Africa” (LfA) aims to support the academic qualification and advancement of young refugees and national scholars from Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Mauritania at higher education institutions in Germany. In time

    Published: 11 Apr 2024 Type: Bauchi Study in: Deadline: 07 Jun 2024

  • UNESCO/Poland Co-Sponsored Fellowship in Engineering for Developing Countries 2024

    With a view to promoting human resource capacities in the developing countries and to enhancing international understanding and friendship among nations and peoples , the Polish National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Chair for Science, Technology, and Engineering at the AGH Universi

    Published: 10 Apr 2024 Type: Anambra Study in: Deadline: 10 May 2024

  • WFSA Paediatric Anaesthesia Training In Africa (PATA) Fellowship for Nigerian Students 2024

    The Paediatric Anaesthesia Training in Africa (PATA) Fellowship, Abuja, Nigeria is offering two 12-month paediatric anaesthesia fellowship positions starting September 2024. Fellows will work at the Department of Anaesthesia at National Hospital Abuja. Teaching will be provided by local faculty

    Published: 10 Apr 2024 Type: Anambra Study in: Deadline: 15 May 2024

  • Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA) Postgraduate Scholarship Program for African Students 2024

    For yet another year, the long-awaited Learn Africa postgraduate scholarship program, a flagship of the Women for Africa Foundation, is back. With more than 10 years of history, the program has reached the incredible figure of 350 female students from 35 different African countries. Many of them hav

    Published: 08 Apr 2024 Type: Adamawa Deadline: Not Specified

  • African Union Digital and Innovation Fellowship Program 2024

    The African Union Digital and Innovation Fellowship Program is a robust 12-month program which aims to identify and deploy highly competent tech innovators from the African continent to units and organs within the African Union headquarters as ‘resident fellows’ to understand the sy

    Published: 29 Mar 2024 Type: Anambra Deadline: 28 Apr 2024

  • Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships (QECS) for Developing Countries 2024

    The Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships (QECS)  offer a unique opportunity to study a two-year Master’s degree in a low or middle-income Commonwealth country. Aimed at students who are committed to creating change in their communities, the scholarships are a life-changing opportu

    Published: 29 Mar 2024 Type: Bauchi Deadline: 24 May 2024

  • Leventis Foundation Masters/MBA Scholarships for Nigerian Students 2024

    The A. G. Leventis Foundation supports a wide range of projects in Cyprus, Greece and elsewhere. Many of these articulate the Foundation's interest in supporting and disseminating Hellenic cultural heritage. Others encompass the Foundation’s concerns for conservation and the environment, s

    Published: 25 Mar 2024 Type: Bauchi Study in: Deadline: 05 Apr 2024

  • UNESCO/IHE Delft MENA Scholarship for African Students 2024

    The IHE Delft Water and Development Partnership Programme, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is providing a limited number of scholarships in the framework of capacity strengthening and nurturing network of water professionals in the focus regions and countries of the programme. Th

    Published: 21 Mar 2024 Type: Bauchi Study in: Deadline: 01 Jun 2024

  • Einstein Forum/Wittenstein Foundation Einstein Fellowship for Researchers Worldwide 2024

    The Einstein Forum and the Wittenstein Foundation offer 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 their area of spe

    Published: 21 Mar 2024 Type: Anambra Study in: Deadline: 01 Jun 2024

  • Mandela Rhodes Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship Program 2024

    Mandela Rhodes Foundation Postgraduate Scholarships is a life-changing leadership journey. The scholarship combines financial support with a leadership programme that will challenge you, grow you, and connect you to young African changemakers – just like you. The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship

    Published: 18 Mar 2024 Type: Adamawa Study in: Deadline: 21 Apr 2024

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Postgraduate Grants And Scholarships

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:

  • NDDC postgraduate scholarship
  • NLNG postgraduate scholarship
  • Agip postgraduate scholarship
  • PTDF postgraduate scholarship
  • Shell postgraduate scholarship
  • Chevron postgraduate scholarship
  • NNPC postgraduate scholarship
  • Total postgraduate scholarship
  • DAAD postgraduate scholarship
  • Fulbright postgraduate scholarship
  • Commonwealth postgraduate scholarship
  • MasterCard postgraduate scholarship

 

Eligibility For Postgraduate Scholarships

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:

  • Proof of English language proficiency (IELTS or it’s equivalent)
  • Bachelors degree/ certificate of graduation (for Masters students)
  • Masters degree/ certificate of graduation (for PhD students)
  • Research proposal (for PhD students)
  • Acceptance/admission letter to study at your selected university
  • International passport (for those students participating in a postgraduate study abroad scholarship)
  • Motivation letter to the scholarship sponsors stating why you think you are qualified to receive a postgraduate sponsorship to further your studies.

 

 

How To Apply For Postgraduate Scholarships

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:

  • Do you research on the scholarship and find out all you need to know about it, in terms of how to apply (whether online or via email or post) and particular documents to submit.
  • Research the school you are applying to and find out documents required and also if you are to apply for the scholarship before you gain admission to study or after.
  • Check if you are eligible for the scholarship
  • Organise all the required documents needed for the application.