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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 117)

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 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 your country to abroad

  • Harvard University Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program 2022

    President Derek Bok established the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program (HSAFP) in 1979 to address the needs of South Africans who were denied access to advanced education by the apartheid system. This program was established, and is still intended, for mid-career professionals educationally

    Published: 2022-02-04 Type: Fellowship Deadline: March 30, 2022

  • Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships for Developing Countries 2022-2023

    Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships are offered for citizens of certain developing Commonwealth countries. These scholarships are funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), with the aim of contributing to the UK’s international development aims and wide

    Published: 2022-02-04 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: March 15, 2022

  • Civic Hive Innovation Fellowship for Early-Stage Civic Innovators 2022

    The fellowship is a 20-week bootcamp and implementation program designed for early-stage Civic innovators with tech-enabled ideas that can solve social problems. The incubation program will focus on bringing more players into the civic tech space. The Civic Hive project, under the fellowship prog

    Published: 2022-02-03 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 28, 2022

  • Mastercard Foundation Online Learning Scholarship at University of Edinburgh 2022

    Gaining an Online Masters is an excellent way to earn a qualification which is equivalent to on-campus study, while at the same time continuing to work flexibly and live at home. Online Masters qualifications though the University of Edinburgh are fully equivalent to Masters degrees taught on campus

    Published: 2022-02-03 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: March 14, 2022

  • South African Fulbright Foreign Student Program 2022

    The South African Fulbright Foreign Student Program provides grants for South African university graduates to pursue post-graduate studies at a United States university in any subject (excludes MBA and studies that require contact with patients).

    Published: 2022-02-03 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: May 1, 2022

  • Government of China MOFCOM Scholarship for Developing Countries 2022

    MOFCOM Scholarship is set up by Ministry of Commerce of People’s Republic of China to further strengthen the communication and cooperation between China and other countries as well as to develop talents for developing countries. Starting from 2015, MOFCOM Scholarship mainly sponsors the young

    Published: 2022-02-02 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: May 31, 2022

  • UNESCO ERAIFT Masters Scholarships for African Students 2022-2023

    The Regional Post-Graduate Training School on Integrated Management of Tropical Forests and Lands (ERAIFT) has issued its 4th international call for applications for enrolment in its regional Masters degree programme, in the framework of its activities on Capacity building of biodiversity practition

    Published: 2022-02-02 Type: Masters Study in: Congo Deadline: February 28, 2022

  • USIP Generation Change Fellows Program for Nigerians(Fully Funded) 2022

    The Generation Change Fellows Program (GCFP) is dedicated to strengthening the capacity of civically engaged youth leaders as they emerge as peacebuilders in their communities. By delivering training in effective leadership, conflict management, and prejudice awareness and reduction; provi

    Published: 2022-02-02 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: February 18, 2022

  • Eisenhower Fellowships Global Fellowship Program(Fully-Funded to the United States) 2022

    Eisenhower Fellowships identifies, empowers and connects innovative leaders through a transformative fellowship experience and lifelong engagement in a global network of dynamic change agents committed to creating a world more peaceful, prosperous and just.  In fall 2022, Eisenhower Fellowsh

    Published: 2022-02-02 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: March 1, 2022

  • NIHSS BRICS Research and Teaching Mobility Grants for South Africans 2022

    The National Institute for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NIHSS) and the South African BRICS Think Tank (SABTT) are pleased to invite suitably qualified researchers and postgraduate students in South African universities and research institutes to apply for the BRICS Research and Teaching M

    Published: 2022-02-01 Type: Postgraduate Study in: South Africa Deadline: February 15, 2022

  • IDRC Research Awards for Canada & Developing Countries 2022

    This year IDRC will offer research awards related to these development areas or themes: Climate-Resilient Food Systems, Democratic and Inclusive Governance, Education and Science, Ethics in Development Research, Global Health, Policy and Evaluation, and Sustainable Incl

    Published: 2022-02-01 Type: Fellowship Study in: Canada Deadline: February 14, 2022

  • Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) 2022

    The Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) is a collaboration between the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and the Singapore

    Published: 2022-01-31 Type: PhD Study in: Singapore Deadline: June 1, 2022

  • World Bank Group Africa Education Fellowship Program 2022

    The WBG-Africa Education Fellowship Program targets young, talented African nationals who are master’s degree holders with three to four years of relevant experience who are completing or have recently completed their Ph.D. in an area relevant to the World Bank’s work in the Educati

    Published: 2022-01-28 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 28, 2022

  • CEGA Visiting Fellowship 2022

    The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) invites researchers from East Africa and Anglophone West Africa interested in developing their skills in impact evaluation and implementation science to apply for a four-month fellowship (sabbatical) at the University of California Be

    Published: 2022-01-28 Type: Fellowship Deadline: March 7, 2022

  • BIEA Research Fellowship for Early-Career Researchers 2022

    The BIEA seeks to appoint several early career researchers who have successfully completed doctoral studies within the last 5 years (with allowance made for family-related or other relevant career breaks), to fill a number of full-time one-year Research Fellow positions at our research hub

    Published: 2022-01-28 Type: Fellowship Study in: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda Deadline: February 15, 2022

  • MINDS Scholarship Programme for Leadership Development 2022

    The MINDS Scholarship Programme for Leadership Development in Africa was successfully launched in 2017, bringing to realisation our vision of developing young leaders who have a continent-wide development mindset and leaders who can facilitate greater cooperation between African countries.

    Published: 2022-01-27 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: Not Specified

  • Sciences Po Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program for African Students 2022

    The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Sciences Po aims to support 126 talented African students through their studies and to offer the next generation of leaders a world-class social science education, so they can go on to become changemakers in their home countries. Over s

    Published: 2022-01-26 Type: Masters Study in: France Deadline: February 28, 2022

  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation International Climate Protection Fellowships for Developing Countries 2022

     The International Climate Protection Fellowships enable prospective leaders to conduct a research-related project of their own choice during a one-year stay in Germany. Submit an application if you are a prospective leader from a non-European threshold or developing country working in the fiel

    Published: 2022-01-26 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: February 15, 2022

  • Mark Wainberg Fellowship Programme in HIV Service Delivery for African Clinicians 2022

     The programme will offer in-depth training for clinicians committed to careers in HIV clinical service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa with the aim of strengthening access to high-quality services for sub-Saharan Africa populations, with a client-centred service delivery approach. Many Afric

    Published: 2022-01-25 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 20, 2022

  • Indian Government (ICCR) Undergraduate and Postgraduate Scholarships for African Students 2022

     At the inaugural plenary of the India – Africa Forum Summit held in New Delhi in April 2008, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India announced the Government of India’s initiative to enhance the academic opportunities for students of African countries in India by increasing the n

    Published: 2022-01-25 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: April 30, 2022

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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.
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