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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2026-2027 (Page 127)

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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 2026-2027, 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

  • Feenix Graduate Bursary programme 2022

    The Feenix team and its community believes in the potential of youth. We believe that access to education should not be dependent on wealth. Education creates opportunities for youth to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to participate in the economy, achieve upward mobility, and chan

    Published: 2022-09-22 Type: Postgraduate Study in: South Africa Deadline: September 30, 2022

  • Princeton in Africa(PIAF) Nexus Fellowship for African Scholars 2023

    In 2023, Princeton in Africa is expanding our model to pilot Nexus! Princeton in Africa Nexus will pair 5 Africa Fellows educated and resident on the African continent with 5 Fellows educated at U.S. accredited institutions in the same fellowship host organizations on the African continent for

    Published: 2022-09-20 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: October 26, 2022

  • NDDC Foreign/Local Post-Graduate Scholarship for Nigerian Students 2023

    To further boost human resource development in the Niger Delta region, the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is once again embarking on its Foreign Post Graduate Scholarship Programme to equip our young people with relevant training and skills for effective participation in the local content

    Published: 2022-09-20 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Nigeria Deadline: November 8, 2022

  • EU-ECOWAS Scholarships Programme on sustainable energy 2022

    The EU-ECOWAS Scholarship programme provides scholarships for masters’ degrees in the sustainable energy sector at specialised universities in West Africa (Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo) for the benefit of eligible students from ECOWAS member states involved in

    Published: 2022-09-20 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: September 23, 2022

  • University of Göttingen Stephan Klasen Fellowship for Developing Countries 2023

    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: 2022-09-20 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: October 31, 2023

  • WHO Road Safety Reporting Workshop for African Journalists and Journalism Trainers 2022

    Africa has the highest road traffic fatality rate in the world. Over 800 people are killed in road crashes every day, more than half of them vulnerable road users like pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. It’s a public health crisis that is entirely preventable. It&rsqu

    Published: 2022-09-19 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda Deadline: September 28, 2022

  • ETH4D Doctoral Mentorship Programme for Developing countries 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: 2022-09-19 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 31, 2022

  • AKU Fellowship Programmes for African Medical Practitioners 2022

    Fellowship Programmes are intended to train academically oriented leaders in clinical care and investigation using best practice approaches that prepare trainees to work at the forefront of their field.

    Published: 2022-09-16 Type: Fellowship Deadline: September 26, 2022

  • McKinsey & Company African Leaders on the Move for Young Africans 2022

    McKinsey has six offices in Africa – Johannesburg, Lagos, Luanda, Casablanca, Nairobi, Addis Ababa. We serve many leading African organizations across sectors including energy and materials, financial services, consumer goods and retail, telecommunications, infrastructure and logistics, as wel

    Published: 2022-09-16 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: October 21, 2022

  • American University of Beirut Graduate Scholarship in Health Science for MENA Countries 2022

    A limited number of partial or full scholarships are available to students from the Arab region interested in the MPH and MS programs at the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS). Scholarship opportunities are only available for the Fall admission term of every academic year. 

    Published: 2022-09-16 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: November 3, 2022

  • United People Global (UPG) Sustainability leadership Program 2023

    UPG Sustainability Leadership is a movement that mobilises individuals and organisations to support positive citizen leadership on sustainability. It is a movement that encourages and enables citizens at all levels to take positive action. A movement inspired by the UPG’s commitment to do w

    Published: 2022-09-15 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: December 31, 2022

  • United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar Fellowship Programme 2023

    The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar Fellowship programme awards non-residential fellowships to PhD candidates enrolled in U.S. universities who are writing doctoral dissertations on topics broadly related to conflict management, peacebuilding and relevant security studies. S

    Published: 2022-09-15 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 6, 2022

  • Bangor University Commonwealth Scholarships for African Students (UK) 2022

    Preference will be given to students from East and Central African Countries. We are especially interested in applications from strong candidates resident in Uganda and Kenya who are refugees, internally displaced or have otherwise been affected by conflict.

    Published: 2022-09-15 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified

  • Sydani Fellowship Program for Nigerian Graduates 2022

    The Sydani Fellowship Programme presents a unique opportunity for exceptional graduates from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to kick-off their careers in management consulting or develop marketable skills for any work environment. It is designed to provide a stimulating experience for young indi

    Published: 2022-09-14 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: December 31, 2022

  • GBHI Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health Programme 2023

    The programme provides innovative training, networking, and support to emerging leaders focused on improving brain health and reducing the impact of dementia in their local communities and on a global scale. It is one of seven global Atlantic Fellows programmes to promote fairer, healthier, and more

    Published: 2022-09-14 Type: Fellowship Study in: Deadline: October 5, 2022

  • Natural Justice Environmental Justice Legal Fellowship Program 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: 2022-09-14 Type: Fellowship Deadline: September 19, 2022

  • JICA ABE Initiative Masters Scholarship & Internship Program for African Students 2023

    The ABE Initiative aims at fostering leaders with proven ability to contribute towards Africa’s development in collaboration with the Japanese private sector. JICA is looking for prominent young South African nationals who are or anticipating to be involved in industrial development activ

    Published: 2022-09-13 Type: Masters Study in: Japan, South Africa Deadline: October 7, 2022

  • RomanIslam Resident Fellowship for Scholars in North Africa 2023

    The fellowship program is one of the central components of the RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies. The Center brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines working on Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity with a focus but not exclusively on

    Published: 2022-09-13 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: November 15, 2022

  • Falling Walls Foundation Science Summit Journalist Fellowship 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: 2022-09-12 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: October 2, 2022

  • Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowships Programme for Journalists 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: 2022-09-12 Type: Fellowship Deadline: November 1, 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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