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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2024-2025 (Page 11)

If you are a student who just completed your Bachelor’s degree and is looking to pursue a master’s degree, or have completed a master’s degree and is planning for your 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.

And because we know how important these study opportunities are to you, ScholarshipSet 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 your country to abroad

  • Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program 2024

    The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Programme (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship programme for educational projects at African higher education institutions for African researchers in diaspora. Offered by IIE in partnership with the United States International University-Africa (USIU-Afr

    Published: 2024-01-16 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda Deadline: March 4, 2024

  • Mozida Foundation Excellence Scholarship for African Students 2024

    The Mozida Africa Excellence Scholarship is a merit-based scholarship that has been established by the Mozida Foundation to attract high-performing students who are leaders and agents of communal change to pursue a master's degree at institutions of higher learning in Bolivia. The first categ

    Published: 2024-01-16 Type: Masters Study in: Bolivia Value: $1600 Deadline: April 30, 2024

  • Mozida Foundation Africa Excellence Scholarship 2024

    The Mozida Africa Excellence Scholarship is a merit-based scholarship that has been established by the Mozida Foundation to attract high-performing students who are leaders and agents of communal change to pursue a master's degree at institutions of higher learning in Bolivia. The first categ

    Published: 2024-01-15 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Bolivia Deadline: April 30, 2024

  • Mastercard Cambridge Trust Africa Changemakers Scholarship 2024

    The Cambridge Africa Changemakers Scholarship is a programme of full-cost scholarships for PhD students in any subject, open to candidates from any country in Africa. It is tenable at any college. It aims to provide support to talented students who require financial assistance to take up their pl

    Published: 2024-01-15 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified

  • University of Waterloo Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)/Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST) 2024

    The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) and the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST) programs encourage excellence in graduate studies at publicly-assisted universities in Ontario. Both programs are jointly funded by the Ontario government

    Published: 2024-01-15 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Canada Deadline: February 1, 2024

  • Call for Application: Obama Foundation Leaders Program 2024

    The Obama Foundation Leaders Africa program seeks to build a growing network of innovative and values-based changemakers who will drive positive change in their communities, the continent, and the world. During the Obamas’ tenure in the White House, they traveled across the African continen

    Published: 2024-01-15 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified

  • FAO–Hungarian Government Scholarship Programme 2024–2025

    FAO-Hungarian Government Scholarship 2024/2025: The FAO-Hungary scholarship programme enables a select group of young professionals to undertake master’s level studies in English at one of Hungary’s agricultural universities. The following Master of Science degree courses are off

    Published: 2024-01-12 Type: Masters Study in: Hungary Deadline: January 29, 2024

  • Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) Masters Scholarship for Developing Countries 2024

    The Austrian Development Cooperation through the Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management offers about 30 scholarships to applicants from priority countries as well as other developing countries. The Tourism School in Salzburg has an outstanding international reputation and a long traditi

    Published: 2024-01-12 Type: Masters Study in: Austria Value: Euro 205 Deadline: March 31, 2024

  • University College Dublin Global Excellence Scholarships for African Students 2024

    University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland is one of the world's top universities and is the most popular university for international students in Ireland. Each year, UCD offers a number of Global Excellence Scholarship to international students (on non-EU fees) who are starting a course at

    Published: 2024-01-12 Type: Masters Study in: Ireland Deadline: March 31, 2024

  • Structural Transformation Of African Agriculture & Rural Spaces (STAARS) Fellowship for African Researchers 2024

    The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program, a multi-institution collaboration managed by Cornell University in collaboration with the World Bank’s Development Research Group, and the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), announc

    Published: 2024-01-11 Type: Fellowship Deadline: January 19, 2024

  • Call for Application: Impact Toolbox Youth in Development Fellowship 2024

    The fifth edition of the Youth in Development (YID) Fellowship Program is open to all youths from around the world who are involved in community development and contributing to achieving socio-economic development across different communities.  The YID Fellowship application process is desig

    Published: 2024-01-10 Type: Fellowship Value: $2,500 Deadline: January 31, 2024

  • Master's Scholarship for Developing Countries at Uppsala University 2024

    Scholarships are available each year for fee-paying international students applying for an international Master's programme at Uppsala University. Please note that the scholarships are highly competitive; only about 2% of those who apply are granted a scholarship.

    Published: 2024-01-10 Type: Masters Study in: Sweden Deadline: January 22, 2024

  • Master's Scholarship for Developing Countries at Uppsala University 2024

    Scholarships are available each year for fee-paying international students applying for an international Master's programme at Uppsala University. Please note that the scholarships are highly competitive; only about 2% of those who apply are granted a scholarship.

    Published: 2024-01-10 Type: Masters Study in: Sweden Deadline: January 22, 2024

  • Master's Scholarship for Developing Countries at Uppsala University 2024

    Scholarships are available each year for fee-paying international students applying for an international Master's programme at Uppsala University. Please note that the scholarships are highly competitive; only about 2% of those who apply are granted a scholarship.

    Published: 2024-01-10 Type: Masters Study in: Sweden Deadline: January 22, 2024

  • ICGEB Arturo Falaschi Postdoctoral Fellowships for Developing Countries 2024

    ICGEB offers competitive Postdoctoral Fellowships in Life Sciences to highly motivated scientists wishing to pursue postdoctoral research in a world-class scientific environment. The Fellowships comprise a very competitive package including stipend, health insurance and additional benefits. The most

    Published: 2024-01-10 Type: PhD Study in: India, Italy, South Africa Deadline: March 31, 2024

  • Arturo Falaschi PhD Fellowships at ICGEB 2024

    ICGEB offers postgraduate studies with the aim of obtaining the “Doctor Philosophiae” (PhD) degree in the life sciences. Thanks to specific agreements, the title can be awarded through a number of academic institutions of international standing, which include The Open University (UK

    Published: 2024-01-09 Type: Fellowship Study in: India, Italy, South Africa Value: Euro 1,500, US$ 1,020, ZAR 14,000 Deadline: March 31, 2024

  • Shell Nigeria Security Coordinator 2024

    Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply for the Shell Nigeria Graduate Program. What’s the role? Responsible for the security of Shell’s human and physicals assets in Shell Nigeria Gas – SNG (including offices, facilities and projects) as well as planning, sc

    Published: 2024-01-08 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Nigeria Deadline: Not Specified

  • University of Oxford/Reuters Institute Journalism Fellowship Program 2024

    The Journalist Fellowship Programme at the Reuters Institute is one of the world’s leading schemes for practising, mid-career journalists to take some time out from their day jobs to explore journalism in depth. The majority of our Journalist Fellows are fully-funded and they also receive

    Published: 2024-01-05 Type: Fellowship Study in: United Kingdom Value: £2,000 Deadline: February 19, 2024

  • Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships for Masters Students ACU 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 opportuni

    Published: 2024-01-04 Type: Masters Deadline: January 10, 2024

  • Acumen Academy East Africa Fellowship 2024

    Acumen Academy is the world's school for social change. We inspire the world to build solutions to poverty and equip determined individuals using the knowledge and tools of business grounded in community and the practices of moral leadership. The East Africa Acumen Fellowship is a rigorous le

    Published: 2024-01-04 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 4, 2024

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Postgraduate Grants And Scholarships For African Students

Annually, postgraduate grants and scholarships  are  awarded to qualified postgraduate students, to enable them fund their studies while studying abroad or in their home country.

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:

  • MasterCard Foundation postgraduate scholarship
  • Commonwealth Scholarships postgraduate scholarship
  • DAAD postgraduate scholarship
  • MEXT postgraduate scholarship
  • Nestle postgraduate scholarship
  • Government of Poland postgraduate scholarship
  • Shanghai Government Scholarships postgraduate scholarship
  • Total postgraduate scholarship
  • Fulbright postgraduate scholarship
  • Many more

 

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.