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 GEMS programme aims to bring the best and brightest PhD students to Monash University Malaysia, where they can work with top-class research teams on some of the world’s core challenges. The GEMS programme offers 15 scholarships each year from 2022 to 2024, and scholarship recipients wil
Published: 21 Oct 2022 Type: Ph.D Study in: Malaysia Deadline: 31 Dec 2022
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is the specialized cancer Agency of the World Health Organization (WHO). Based in Lyon, France, IARC is inter-disciplinary, bringing together skills in epidemiology, laboratory sciences and biostatistics to identify the causes of cancer so that
Published: 05 Oct 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 10 Dec 2022
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) will host its 32nd General Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2024 (GA2024). This is the first time in the 100+ year history of the IAU that the General Assembly will be held in Africa, which provides a prime opportunity to showcase the cutting-ed
Published: 05 Oct 2022 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa Deadline: 07 Oct 2022
Applications for the Masters of Science in International Health Programme at the University of Heidelberg and Charité Berlin with scholarship funding from the DAAD EPOS programme are open. Heidelberg Institute of Public Health The Master of Scie
Published: 05 Oct 2022 Type: Masters Deadline: 15 Oct 2022
Applications are invited for DAAD Tropical Forestry Scholarships. The course is taught in English at Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), one of the 11 German Universities of Excellence. Applicants will benefit from the international background of their research and lecturing scientists who
Published: 04 Oct 2022 Type: Masters Study in: Germany Deadline: 30 Oct 2022
I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the German Historical Institute in Rome (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom) offer a joint residential fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. With this fellowship, I Tatti and the DHI Rom seek to stim
Published: 29 Sep 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Italy Deadline: 15 Nov 2022
Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is offering an array of graduate programs designed for the pursuit of advanced specialized knowledge and skills in artificial intelligence. Their dedicated faculty and staff provide encouragement and guidance to enable you to make the
Published: 26 Sep 2022 Type: Ph.D Study in: United Arab Emirates Deadline: 30 Apr 2022
CIFAR invites exceptional early-career researchers from across the natural, biomedical and social sciences and the humanities to join one of their interdisciplinary research programmes that address some of the most important questions facing science and humanity. The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars
Published: 21 Sep 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 25 Oct 2022
In 2019, the Faculty of Business and Economics, together with the Presidential Board of the University of Göttingen and the Faculty’s Development Economics professorships, established the “Stephan Klasen Fellowship” on the occasion of the Farewell Lecture by Prof. Dr
Published: 20 Sep 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: 31 Oct 2022
ETH4D provides grants for mentoring doctoral candidates from low- and lower-middle-income countries. The mentorship is a one-year appointment and comprises the following components: Mentorship from one ETH professor, senior scientist or postdoc over a period of one year of the mentee’s d
Published: 19 Sep 2022 Type: Ph.D Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 31 Oct 2022
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme was established in October 2000 by a donation of US$210m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Cambridge; this is the largest ever single donation to a UK university. Each year Gates Cambridge offers 80 full-cost scholarships to
Published: 19 Sep 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 01 Dec 2022
Bangor University and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission are jointly funding 6 scholarships for masters study at Bangor University in September 2023. Funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships enable talented and moti
Published: 15 Sep 2022 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 01 Dec 2022
The EJ Legal Fellowship offers an exciting opportunity to two young, up-and-coming professionals who are passionate about supporting communities in securing rights to their lands, resources and knowledge. The legal fellows will be introduced to a broad spectrum of issues within environmental and
Published: 13 Sep 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 19 Sep 2022
The Alicia Patterson Foundation Programme was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly 23 years before her death in 1963. One-year and six-month grants are awarded to working journalists to pursue independent projects of signi
Published: 12 Sep 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Nov 2022
The Falling Walls Foundation is offering a journalist fellowship grant to support international media representatives in reporting on the topics of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2022. Selected journalists will be invited to Berlin to meet international speakers and participants at the Falling Wal
Published: 12 Sep 2022 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: 02 Oct 2022
In partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, Arizona State University will provide graduate scholarships to train 25 young African professionals at the Master’s level for various programmes over 4 years (2021 – 2025). This scholarship programme is situated within EdPlus, a central e
Published: 11 Sep 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United States Deadline: 07 Oct 2022
The aim of the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship, hereinafter referred to as the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship, is to support suitably qualified research master’s and doctoral candidates pursuing, or intending to pursue, full-time research i
Published: 08 Sep 2022 Type: Ph.D Study in: Ireland Deadline: 13 Oct 2022
The agency-nominated Master’s programme is one of three Master’s programmes offered by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (CSC) provides the UK government scholarship scheme led by international development objectives. It operate
Published: 07 Sep 2022 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 18 Oct 2022
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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: