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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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Applications are open for the American University Washington College of Law Human Rights Essay Award 2020. The Human Rights Essay Award is an annual competition sponsored by the Academy that seeks to stimulate the production of scholarly work in international human rights law. Participants h
Published: 15 Nov 2019 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United States Deadline: 01 Feb 2020
Applications are open for the Dell Technologies Graduation Project Competition “Envision the Future” 2019-2020. The annual graduation project competition is for senior undergraduate students from universities in Turkey, Middle East and Africa. The competition is intended to spark
Published: 18 Nov 2019 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 22 Dec 2019
Applications are open for the A. S. Hornby Educational Trust Scholarships 2020 for Masters Study in ELT at the University of Warwick. The scholarships are awarded every year to English language teachers from outside the UK to study for Masters in TESOL at the University of Warwick. Th
Published: 14 Nov 2019 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 30 Nov 2019
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Applications are curremtly being welcome by the Erasmus Mundus scholarship foundation for the 2020 Journalism, Media, and Globalisation awards. The Erasmus Mundus Scholarships in Journalism, Media and Globalization is awarded to Individuals who are seeking to pursue a scholarship opportun
Published: 10 Nov 2019 Type: Masters Deadline: 10 Jan 2020
Applications are currently being accepted by the African Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems for its 2020-2021 Visiting PhD Fellowship Program which would be held at Aalborg University, Denmark. The aim of the visiting fellowship programme and the scholarsh
Published: 10 Nov 2019 Type: Ph.D Study in: Denmark Deadline: 27 Nov 2019
Applications are currently being accepted for the CommonWealth 2020 shared scholarship for Master's study in the UK. This scholarship is aimed at students from least developed countries and lower middle income Commonwealth countries, for full-time Master’s study on selected courses, j
Published: 07 Nov 2019 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 18 Dec 2019
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Applications are open for the Dr Abdul Kalam International Postgraduate Scholarship 2020 at University of Sydney. The Dr Abdul Kalam International Postgraduate Scholarships celebrate Dr Abdul Kalam’s commitment to education, and his endeavours to support outstanding students to develop as futu
Published: 04 Nov 2019 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Australia Deadline: 12 Jan 2020
Applications are currenlty being accepted by University of British Columbia for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2020-2021. The Program will provide academically talented yet economically disadvantaged young people from Sub-Saharan Africa with access to quality and relevant
Published: 02 Nov 2019 Type: Masters Study in: Canada Deadline: 13 Dec 2019
Federal Government Scholarship (BEA) 2021-2022 Application Form - How To Apply For BEA Undergraduate and Postgraduate Scholarship Want to study abroad, but need a scholarship to do so? Here is a great opportunity then for you to grab. The Federal Ministry of Education Scholarship board is current
Published: 24 Oct 2020 Type: Postgraduate Study in: China, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Russian Federation Deadline: 06 Dec 2019
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The Norwegian Business School is currently accepting applications from international students who meets the scholarship requirements as started in the requirement section below. The BI Presidential Scholarships are awarded to students who possess an outstanding record of superior academic achie
Published: 26 Oct 2019 Type: Masters Study in: Norway Deadline: 01 Mar 2020
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The Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is inviting applications for the 2020 PhD Scholarships for young Africans. This scholarship, if selected, you be awarded R540, 000 as the scholarship value and to be eligible for this schol
Published: 12 Apr 2024 Type: Ph.D Study in: South Africa Deadline: 30 Jan 2020
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The university of Cambridge is currently accepting application for the Cambridge Trust 2020-2021 International Scholarships for PhD students. This scholarship will cover full tuition fee and maintenance cost for the duration of the program. To be eligible for this scholarship, you must first have a
Published: 23 Oct 2019 Type: Ph.D Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 03 Dec 2019
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The Fields Institutes for Research in Mathematical Sciences are currently inviting applications from scholars who are eligible for the 2020 AIMS Perimeter Africa Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. The fellowship is a unique position intended for new and recent PhDs holders who are African
Published: 22 Oct 2019 Type: Fellowship Study in: Canada Deadline: 15 Nov 2019
Applications are currently being invited from scholars who are working in the field of African Studies for the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence Fellowships in the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies. This Program aims to reconfigure African Studies at the conceptual and the str
Published: 20 Oct 2019 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 30 Nov 2019
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Novo Nordisk is currently inviting applications from qualified students for its 2019-2020 International Talent Programmes. Priorities are given to applicants who displays strong academic backgroung and who is a member of the underlisted International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU). It is a
Published: 15 Oct 2019 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Denmark Deadline: 25 Oct 2019
In collaboration with UNESCO and a number of centres of excellence in the South, TWAS has instituted a Joint Associateship Scheme to enable competent researchers from the South to visit these centres regularly. An associate is appointed for three years during which he/she can visit a Centre twice fo
Published: 14 Oct 2019 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 02 Dec 2019
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is currently inviting application from qualified candidates for its 2019-2020 Doctoral (PhD) and Masters (M.Sc) scholarship scheme for Nigerian Students. Students in the areas of Information Technology (IT) and ICT Law
Published: 11 Oct 2019 Type: Masters Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 21 Nov 2019
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is currently inviting application from qualified candidates for its 2019-2020 Doctoral (PhD) and Masters (M.Sc) scholarship scheme for Nigerian Students. Students in the areas of Information Technology (IT) and ICT Law
Published: 11 Oct 2019 Type: Ph.D Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 21 Nov 2019
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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:
