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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 131)

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

  • AIMS African Masters in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) Program for African Students 2022

     African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) launched applications for the second intake of its unique African Master’s in Machine Intelligence (AMMI), a novel one-year intensive foundational master’s program that will provide brilliant young Africans with state-of-the-art tr

    Published: 2021-11-30 Type: Masters Study in: Rwanda Deadline: November 30, 2021

  • STIAS ISO LOMSO Fellowships for Africans 2022

    Applications are now being accepted at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study for the Iso Lomso Fellowship programme aimed at supporting African scholars who have obtained their doctoral degree within the preceding years and hold an academic position at a university or research institution in

    Published: 2021-11-29 Type: Postgraduate Study in: South Africa Deadline: February 15, 2022

  • AUC Yousef Jameel GAPP Public Leadership Program 2022

    In May 2011, Yousef Jameel, working with the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), initiated the Yousef Jameel public leadership program, with the overall objective of building the capacity of young competent Egyptian nationals in the areas of public policy and public adm

    Published: 2021-11-29 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Egypt Deadline: April 15, 2022

  • Aljazeera Media Institute Fellowship Programme for Young Journalists 2022

    Are you a young and daring journalists with the passion to improve your professional skills? Do you wish to contribute to the development of high-quality journalism in the Global South? Then apply for the AlJazeera Media Institute Fellowship programme 2022. The Fellowship program aims to con

    Published: 2021-11-26 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 7, 2021

  • AFIDEP PRB Policy Communication Fellowship for Developing Countries 2021-2022

    The PRB Policy Communication Fellows Program seeks to train the next generation of leaders shaping policy in their countries. The fellowship is hosted in partnership with African research and advocacy experts to encourage South-South collaboration and knowledge exchange. The year-long fellowship

    Published: 2021-11-26 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 10, 2021

  • iThemba LABS SAINTS@tlabs Prestige Masters and Doctoral Scholarships for South African Students 2022

    iThemba LABS (www.tlabs.ac.za) is a national facility of the National Research Foundation (NRF) with its main campus close to Somerset West, Western Cape and its satellite campus close to the University of the Witwatersrand. The Southern African Institute for Nuclear Technology and Sciences (SAINTS)

    Published: 2021-11-26 Type: Postgraduate Study in: South Africa Deadline: December 31, 2022

  • Standard Bank Africa Chairman’s Scholarship (Fully-Funded Study) at Oxford University 2022/2023

    The Standard Bank Africa Chairman scholarship is awarded to three outstanding African students wishing to undertake a 1 year Masters programme at the University of Oxford. You must be applying to start any full-time, one-year taught master’s course within the Mathematical, Physical and

    Published: 2021-11-23 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified

  • IBM Great Minds Student Internships Program for Graduates Worldwide 2022

    IBM Great Minds Students Internships 2022 is currently open for applications from eligible and exceptional students. The internships will take place in 2022. IBM will pay the winners a lump sum towards travel expenses as well as compensation that covers adequately the cost of living making it v

    Published: 2021-11-22 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: December 15, 2021

  • Commonwealth Shared Scholarships for Masters Students from Developing Countries to Study in UK 2022-2023

    The CSC is offering the Commonwealth Shared Scholarships 2022/2023 for Masters Students from Commonwealth Countries to study in UK Universities.The Commonwealth Shared Scholarships, set up by the Department for International Development (DFID) in 1986, represent a unique partners

    Published: 2021-11-22 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: December 20, 2021

  • TGCL LLM Programme for East African 2021-2022

    The Tanzanian-German Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies (TGCL) is a cooperation project of the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the University of Bayreuth, Germany. It is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The TGCL offe

    Published: 2021-11-17 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: December 15, 2021

  • DAAD-RIPS Scholarship for Africans 2022-2023

    The Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) at the University of Ghana (UG) is accepting applications for the award of the 2022/2023 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarships to pursue Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in Population Studies.

    Published: 2021-11-15 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: January 14, 2022

  • icipe ARPPIS-DAAD PhD Scholarships for African Countries 2022

    he primary objective of ARPPIS is to prepare young researchers from Africa to compete in an internationally competitive research environment within national, regional and international research programmes. At icipe ARPPIS scholars are provided with excellent research facilities in an inter

    Published: 2021-11-15 Type: PhD Deadline: December 15, 2021

  • DAAD NELGA Research Fellowship for African Postdoctoral Researchers 2022

    The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) as commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to organize support measures for the “Network of Excellence for Land Gov

    Published: 2021-11-12 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified

  • I Tatti DHI Rom Joint Fellowship for African Studies 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 stimulat

    Published: 2021-11-12 Type: Fellowship Deadline: November 15, 2021

  • University of Pretoria Post-Doctoral Fellowship on the Right to Privacy in Africa 2022

    Despite the omission of the right to privacy from the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter), the African Union’s human rights system has made efforts to protect the right. For example, when the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in 2019 revised

    Published: 2021-11-12 Type: Fellowship Study in: South Africa Deadline: December 3, 2021

  • DAAD International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (CIPMA-UNESCO Chair) for African Students at University of Abomey-Calavi 2022

    The In-Country/In-Region Scholarship Programme supports studies in subject areas with strong relevance to national development. The scholarships at University of Abomey – Calavi, International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (CIPMA – UNESCO Chair) are available in the

    Published: 2021-11-11 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: February 17, 2022

  • Carleton University Richard J. Van Loon Scholarships for African Students 2021-2022

    The Richard J. Van Loon Scholarship, valued at $5,000 for the 2021/2022 academic year, is awarded annually to an outstanding international student from an African country. The award was endowed in 2005 by friends, family and colleagues in honour of Richard J. Van Loon, Carleton’s 10th Presiden

    Published: 2021-11-11 Type: Masters Study in: Canada Deadline: November 15, 2021

  • STIAS Iso Lomso Fellowships for Early Career African Researchers 2022

    Iso Lomso aims to address the gap that exists between completion of the Ph.D. and becoming an established scholar in Africa. While there is increasing support for doctoral study and for post-doctoral fellowships, it is during the extended post-doctoral period that the greatest loss of talent occurs.

    Published: 2021-11-09 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 15, 2022

  • University of California African Legal Impact LL.M Scholarship for African Students 2022-2023

    The African Legal Impact Scholarship was developed to encourage enrollment of students from Africa seeking advanced legal education in University of California, Berkeley. Because funds are extremely limited, the African Legal Impact Scholarship can only be provided to two outstanding

    Published: 2021-11-08 Type: Masters Deadline: December 18, 2021

  • TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship for Africans 2022-2023

    The TY Danjuma Family Office Limited is now accepting applications from African postgraduate students for its 2022 MBA Scholarship.  The TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship provides financial support to post-graduate African students who have been accepted onto MBA programmes at the top-10 leading Bu

    Published: 2021-11-08 Type: Masters Deadline: June 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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