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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 2)

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

  • MASS African Design Centre Fellowship for African Architects and Designers 2025

    With support from the Mellon Foundation and additional funding from the Cravens Foundation, MASS is relaunching the ADC Fellowship, empowering African architects and designers to lead the continent’s urbanization. The ADC Fellowship is a twelve-month hands-on residency program in Kigal

    Published: 2025-07-02 Type: Fellowship Study in: Rwanda Deadline: July 13, 2025

  • University of Twente NL Scholarship for Masters Students 2025

    The NL Scholarship is a scholarship for excellent students from non-EU/EEA countries, applying for a Master's programme at the University of Twente. The scholarship amounts to € 5,000 only for the first year of your studies.

    Published: 2025-07-01 Type: Masters Study in: Netherlands Deadline: May 1, 2026

  • 2026 Kader Asmal Fellowship Programme for Postgraduate Study in Ireland

    The Ireland Fellows Programme enables early to mid-career professionals from eligible countries, with leadership potential, to benefit from a prestigious, world-class, quality education contributing to capacity building. It offers selected students the opportunity to undertake a fully funded on

    Published: 2025-07-01 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Ireland, South Africa Deadline: July 25, 2025

  • The Seán MacBride Fellowship Programme 2026 for Namibian Professionals

    The Ireland Fellows Programme enables early to mid-career professionals from eligible countries, with leadership potential, to benefit from a prestigious, world-class, quality education contributing to capacity building. It offers selected students the opportunity to undertake a fully funded on

    Published: 2025-07-01 Type: Fellowship Deadline: July 25, 2025

  • Ireland Fellows Programme for Masters Scholarship 2026-2027

    The Ireland Fellows Programme enables early to mid-career professionals from eligible countries, with leadership potential, to benefit from a prestigious, world-class, quality education contributing to capacity building. It offers selected students the opportunity to undertake a fully funded on

    Published: 2025-07-01 Type: Masters Study in: Ireland Deadline: Not Specified

  • One World Media 2025 Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship for Nigerian Journalists

    One World Media, in partnership with Surge Africa, is thrilled to launch a new opportunity as part of The Climate Reporting Gap Initiative. Across Nigeria, the impacts of climate change are increasingly visible — from rising heat and water scarcity to the complexities of the

    Published: 2025-07-01 Type: Fellowship Deadline: August 20, 2025

  • Canon Japan-Africa Research Programme 2025

    The Japan-Africa Programme offers grants to post-graduate scholars from Japan and Africa who want to do research in African Studies in Africa and Japan respectively. The Programme is intended to support Researchers from Japan to carry out research at institutes in African universities and

    Published: 2025-06-30 Type: Fellowship Study in: Japan Deadline: September 15, 2025

  • FIG Foundation Grant for Young African Surveyors 2025

    The FIG Foundation will sponsor and award Young Surveyor Grants in support of the FIG Young Surveyors 4th African Regional Meeting and 10th ISK African Regional Conference

    Published: 2025-06-30 Type: Fellowship Study in: Kenya Deadline: July 31, 2025

  • 2025 Ruth and Roger Hopkins PhD Scholarship in Accounting and Financial Governance

    This scholarship was established through the Victoria University of Wellington Foundation in 2024 from a generous bequest by Mrs Ruth Hopkins and Emeritus Professor Roger Hopkins. They chose to leave their bequest to support students taking up accounting and electing to focus on developing countries

    Published: 2025-06-30 Type: PhD Study in: New Zealand Deadline: July 1, 2025

  • 2026 Stellenbosch University Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Scholarship

    The MSc in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is a one-year structured master’s programme at Stellenbosch University, designed for students with a strong mathematical and computational background. It will equip you with the fundamentals of ML and AI, plus a suite of sophist

    Published: 2025-06-30 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa Deadline: August 15, 2025

  • DAAD Doctoral Programmes to Study in Germany 2026

    This scholarship programme offers you the opportunity to complete your doctoral degree in Germany. The scholarships are funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

    Published: 2025-06-30 Type: PhD Study in: Germany Deadline: September 24, 2025

  • The Irish Government Frank Ferguson Fellowship in Engineering for Zambians 2026

    The Ireland Fellows Programme enables early to mid-career professionals from eligible countries, with leadership potential, to benefit from a prestigious, world-class, quality education contributing to capacity building. It offers selected students the opportunity to undertake a fully funded one-yea

    Published: 2025-06-30 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ireland, Zambia Deadline: July 25, 2025

  • Yale University Keasbey Scholarship 2025

    Marguerite Keasbey established the Henry Griffith Keasbey and Anna Griffith Keasbey memorial Foundation in 1953 to honor her parents. In the interest of promoting Anglo-American relations and providing Americans with an opportunity to experience the British educational system, the Keasbey Memorial F

    Published: 2025-06-27 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: July 31, 2025

  • Loughborough University 2025 Inspiring Success Scholarship

    Awards are open to graduates specifically from East London to study a master's programme on our London campus. The Inspiring Success programme was founded in partnership with the London Legacy Development Corporation and has most recently been supported by kind donations from alumni, local fo

    Published: 2025-06-27 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: July 31, 2025

  • University of Glasgow Msc Scholarship 2025

    The University of Glasgow is pleased to be offering scholarships for the MSc/MA Reparatory Justice programme delivered in partnership with the University of the West Indies. The scholarship are available to home, EU and international students. Applications are particularly welcomed from applicants f

    Published: 2025-06-27 Type: Masters Value: £11,070 Deadline: July 21, 2025

  • University of Strathclyde International Scholarship for Mathematical Sciences 2025

    Scholarships of £5,000 are available to new international students joining the MRes Mathematical Sciences in the academic year 2025/26.

    Published: 2025-06-27 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Value: £5,000 Deadline: November 30, -0001

  • Victoria University of Wellington Doctoral Scholarship to Study in New Zealand 2025

    To encourage postgraduate research Victoria University of Wellington offers scholarships to those about to begin their doctoral studies. These scholarships are awarded on academic merit and are open to New Zealand and international students in any discipline.

    Published: 2025-06-27 Type: PhD Study in: New Zealand Deadline: November 1, 2025

  • Flinders University 2025 Margaret Fay Fuller PhD top up Scholarship

    A generous donation by Barbara Reeves Hughes in memory of her dear friend the late Margaret Fay Fuller has enabled the establishment of an endowed scholarship called the Margaret Fay Fuller Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Cancer Research. The purpose of this scholarship is to support postgra

    Published: 2025-06-26 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Deadline: August 1, 2025

  • Universiti Brunei Darussalam Graduate Research Scholarship 2025

    The UBD Graduate Research Scholarship (UGRS) is a competitive scheme awarded to quality PhD students with a strong desire to work in an international and competitive research-intensive environment. UBD is committed to opening doors to the brightest students to work among and network with our re

    Published: 2025-06-26 Type: PhD Study in: Brunei Darussalam Deadline: August 10, 2025

  • African Women in Data Science Fellowship 2025

    African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural African Women in Data Science Fellowship. This timely initiative responds to the growing demand for data-driven leadership to tackle the pressing challenges of food insecurity and climat

    Published: 2025-06-26 Type: Fellowship Deadline: July 31, 2025

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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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