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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 16)

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

  • Call for Applications: TotalEnergies International Masters Degree Scholarship 2025-2026

    TotalEnergies is a broad energy company that produces and markets fuels, natural gas, and electricity. A leading player in the energies industry with activities in more than 130 countries worldwide, we are committed to energy that is more affordable, more reliable, and cleaner, in compliance with th

    Published: 2024-12-09 Type: Masters Study in: Nigeria Deadline: Not Specified

  • Apply Now: NNPC Limited/TotalEnergies Masters Scholarship for International Students 2025

    Annually, TotalEnergies in partnership with NNPC Limited and its corporate partners identify and sponsor young Nigerian scholars interested in pursuing  master's degree programs in Management Science, Engineering and Geosciences (oil and gas related) at  universities in France. The awa

    Published: 2024-12-09 Type: Masters Deadline: January 31, 2025

  • World Bank Government Analytics Fellowship Program 2025

    Launched in 2024, the fellowship bridges the gap between underutilized government data and the potential for improved efficiency in public administration. Leveraging insights from the Government Analytics Handbook and supported by World Bank experts and academics, the Fellowship offers fro

    Published: 2024-12-06 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: January 10, 2025

  • UNESCO/IHE Delft Rotary Scholarships for Water and Sanitation Professionals 2025

    The strategic partnership between The Rotary Foundation (TRF) and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education aims to tackle the world’s water and sanitation crisis by increasing the number of trained professionals to devise, plan, and implement solutions in developing and emerging countries. Thro

    Published: 2024-12-06 Type: Masters Study in: Netherlands Deadline: April 15, 2025

  • Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship for Researchers Worldwide 2025

    The Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship is a six-month program that supports researchers in conducting data-driven analysis or developing tools that contribute to an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet. The fellowship has been running for three years, and we are in

    Published: 2024-12-04 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 23, 2024

  • University College London Bartlett Promise Scholarship for African Students 2025

    The Bartlett Promise aims to enable students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in The Bartlett, to pursue studies at The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment. This scholarship is open to applicants who are nationals of a Bartlett-approved list of Sub-Saharan African c

    Published: 2024-12-04 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: March 28, 2025

  • MasterCard Foundation Scholarship Program 2025 for African Students at AUB

    The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program provides full scholarships in partnership with the American University of Beirut (AUB). The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program ?aims to prepare young people to be agents of change in their communities, countries, and regions. Scholars attend a s

    Published: 2024-12-03 Type: Masters Study in: Lebanon Deadline: May 16, 2025

  • AAAS-TWAS 2025 Course on Science Diplomacy

    The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington DC, USA, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, are seeking candidates to participate in the annual summer course on science diplomacy to be held on 21- 24 July 2025 in person in Trieste, Italy. Th

    Published: 2024-12-03 Type: PhD Study in: Italy Deadline: January 23, 2025

  • East-West Center POSCO Visiting Fellowship Program 2025

    The POSCO Visiting Fellowship Program, endowed by POSCO, is intended to promote research activities on Korean topics at the East-West Center.  The program invites outstanding scholars and policymakers to engage in policy-relevant, contemporary research on political, security, and economic issues in

    Published: 2024-12-03 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: December 31, 2024

  • E-JUST TICAD8 African Scholarships 2025 for African Students

    E-JUST offers “E-JUST TICAD8 African Scholarships for STI” – i.e. TICAD8 Scholarships to develop high quality human resources in the field of STI (Science, Technology and Innovation) toward future African STI network and beyond. These scholarships are provided under the cooperation

    Published: 2024-12-02 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Egypt Deadline: February 8, 2025

  • Wilson Center Agents of Change Youth Fellowship Program 2025

    The Agents of Change Youth Fellowship is a professional program offered by the Wilson Center’s Middle East Program and Environmental Change and Security Program. This initiative seeks to empower emerging leaders from the MENA region who are committed to addressing climate change, water securit

    Published: 2024-12-02 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 15, 2024

  • Swansea University PhD Scholarship for International Students 2025

    The Artificial Intelligence computing for the discovery of the governing knowledge of real world system is important. The proposed research aims to integrate symbolic computing with machine learning models. This project develops Explainable Artificial Intelligence Computing for the knowledge discove

    Published: 2024-12-02 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: January 13, 2025

  • Chinese Government Scholarship Program at China Pharmaceutical University 2025

    Chinese Government Scholarship-High-level Postgraduate Program is a full scholarship established by the Ministry of Education, P.R.C. to support designated Chinese universities to enroll outstanding international students for postgraduate studies in China. The Chinese Government Scholarship "

    Published: 2024-12-02 Type: Postgraduate Study in: China Deadline: February 20, 2025

  • Campus France MOPGA Visiting Fellowship Program for Researchers 2025

    France, as a major player in the fight against climate change and guarantor of the spirit of the Paris Agreement, is launching a new MOPGA visiting fellowship program geared towards strengthening scientific contributions to climate change issues raised by the COPs.  This eighth Make Our Plan

    Published: 2024-12-02 Type: Fellowship Study in: France Deadline: December 5, 2024

  • Government of Ireland International Education Scholarships 2025

    The Government of Ireland International Education Scholarship (GOI-IES) programme supports high-calibre international students who wish to study at master’s or PhD level in Ireland. The programme is funded by the Government of Ireland in partnership with Irish higher education institutions and

    Published: 2024-11-29 Type: Masters Study in: Ireland Deadline: March 5, 2025

  • University of Western Australia (UWA) Ocean Science Scholarship Program 2025

    The Oceans Graduate School at UWA has several RTP Scholarship packages available to offer to domestic and international students, undertaking a PhD or MPhil in a variety of ocean related fields including oceanography, hydrodynamics, offshore geotechnical engineering, coastal engineering, m

    Published: 2024-11-28 Type: Masters Study in: Australia Value: $37000 Deadline: February 28, 2025

  • 2025 Firstrand Empowerment Foundation Postgraduate Bursary

    This postgraduate bursary is designed for students who are pursuing their first postgraduate qualification. Our focus is on supporting students in fields aligned with national priorities, including Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM), to foster innovation and drive transf

    Published: 2024-11-28 Type: Postgraduate Study in: South Africa Deadline: December 15, 2024

  • TWAS-CSIR Postgraduate Fellowship Programme for Developing Countries 2025

    The Fellowship is offered to young scientists from developing countries (other than India) who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in emerging areas in science and technology for which facilities are available in laboratories and institutes of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR

    Published: 2024-11-28 Type: Fellowship Study in: India Deadline: January 14, 2025

  • DAAD University of Hoheinheim 2025 M.Sc. Agricultural Economics Scholarships

    In collaboration with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), a limited number of scholarships are available for M.Sc. Agricultural Economics at the University of Hohenheim under the special initiative “Development-Related Postgraduate Courses” (EPOS). For up-to-date requiremen

    Published: 2024-11-28 Type: Masters Study in: Germany Deadline: December 15, 2024

  • Call for Applications: Impact Academy Global AI Safety Fellowship 2025

    The Impact Academy’s Global AI Safety Fellowship is a 3-6 month fully-funded research program for exceptional STEM talent to work with the world’s leading AI safety organisations on advancing the safe and beneficial development of AI. The Impact Academy’ will select Fello

    Published: 2024-11-28 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 31, 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.
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