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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 32)

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

  • Government of Hong Kong Scholarship Program For African Students 2024

    The Government of Hong Kong Full-Tuition Scholarships offer an exceptional opportunity for aspiring educators in Nigeria. This prestigious scholarship allows two students to pursue a four-year Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education (ECE) at the Yew Chung College of Childhood Ed

    Published: 2024-07-03 Type: Masters Study in: Hong Kong Deadline: July 31, 2024

  • Getty Foundation Scholars Program for Researchers Worldwide 2025

    The Getty Scholars Program supports innovative research about art, conceived in the broadest terms, and its histories, by providing a locus for international scholars to forge collaborations across disciplines and professional practices, while also developing new audiences for their work. During the

    Published: 2024-07-03 Type: PhD Deadline: October 1, 2024

  • 2024 Seán MacBride Fellowship for Early to Mid-Career Namibia 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: 2024-07-02 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ireland Deadline: July 30, 2024

  • Ireland Fellows Programme Courtney 2024

    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: 2024-07-02 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ireland Deadline: July 30, 2024

  • Call for Applications: 2024 11th Edition of the RES4Africa Foundation Executive School

    RES4Africa Foundation, in partnership with Enel Foundation, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and the European Investment Bank (EIB), and in collaboration with POLIMI Graduate School of Management and SDA Bocconi, is delighted to announce

    Published: 2024-07-02 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Italy Deadline: August 31, 2024

  • Cambridge-Africa 2024 ALBORADA Research Fund for Africa Researchers

    The Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund was established in 2012, with generous support from The ALBORADA Trust. The Fund supports pairs of researchers (post-doctoral level and above) from the University of Cambridge (or an affiliated institution such as the Wellcome Trust San

    Published: 2024-06-28 Type: PhD Deadline: September 12, 2024

  • University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School MRes/PhD training scheme in Economics 2024

    The Adam Smith Business School offers a prestigious combined MRes/PhD training scheme in Economics. It starts with the 2 years MRes programme. Candidates who complete the MRes at a sufficiently high level will be given priority for admission into the 3-4 years PhD stage. The University of Glasgow

    Published: 2024-06-28 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: July 1, 2024

  • UNFPA Scholarship for a First Level Master Program 2024

    With the vision of scaling up investment in the development of the full potential of the young people in Cameroon, their innovation capital and addressing the gender gap, the United Nations Population Fund in Cameroon, in partnership with the Ernesto Illy Foundation in Italy, is launc

    Published: 2024-06-27 Type: Masters Study in: Italy Deadline: June 30, 2024

  • WAC-SRT/DAAD 2024 Scholarships Program for African Students

    The West African Centre for Sustainable Rural Transformation (WAC-SRT) at Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) in Wa, Ghana, is pleased to announce applications for the 2024/2025 academic year. Under the prestigious DAAD Scholarship program, schol

    Published: 2024-06-26 Type: PhD Deadline: July 15, 2024

  • WAC-SRT/DAAD 2024 Scholarships Program for African Students

    The West African Centre for Sustainable Rural Transformation (WAC-SRT) at Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) in Wa, Ghana, is pleased to announce applications for the 2024/2025 academic year. Under the prestigious DAAD Scholarship program, schol

    Published: 2024-06-26 Type: Masters Study in: Ghana Deadline: July 15, 2024

  • Kochi University of Technology (KUT) Special Scholarship Program for International Students 2024

    The Kochi University of Technology (KUT) Special Scholarship Program (SSP) on research projects in the field of Engineering for International Doctoral applicants, Japan 2024/2025. The Special Scholarship Program (SSP) was established in 2004 in order to support the advanced research of the u

    Published: 2024-06-26 Type: PhD Study in: Japan Deadline: September 13, 2024

  • Call for Applications: DANIDA PhD Scholarship (CLAIMS to Energy Citizenship in South Africa) 2024

    The African Centre for Cities (ACC) invites applications for a PhD scholarship as part of the CLAIMS to Energy Citizenship project, funded by DANIDA (2024-2028). This call is specifically for the PhD that will align with WP1 (see above). The PhD will be co-supervised by Prof Waltorp and Dr C

    Published: 2024-06-26 Type: PhD Deadline: July 19, 2024

  • Danish Government Scholarships for Engineering International Students at University of Southern Denmark 2024

    The University of Southern Denmark offers a limited number of scholarships through the Danish Government Scholarship programme to highly qualified applicants in recognition of the important investment that overseas students make during their education.

    Published: 2024-06-25 Type: Masters Study in: Denmark Deadline: September 1, 2024

  • Canon Foundation Kyoto University 2024 Japan-Africa Exchange Program

    Based on the Memorandum of Understanding concluded between the Canon Foundation in Europe (CFE) and Kyoto University (KU),  the Canon Foundation-Kyoto University Japan-Africa Exchange Program started in 2018. The program offers fellowships to highly qualified researcher

    Published: 2024-06-24 Type: Masters Study in: Japan Deadline: October 15, 2024

  • Apply Now: UICC 2024 Technical Fellowships for Cancer Professionals

    UICC’s Technical Fellowships provide cancer professionals the chance to gain new knowledge, skills and techniques in cancer control through short learning visits of two weeks to two months’ duration. This specific fellowship opportunity was originally launched in 1976, and was calle

    Published: 2024-06-24 Type: Fellowship Deadline: August 12, 2024

  • Harvard University Academy Scholars Program 2024

    The Academy Scholars Program of The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies identifies and supports outstanding scholars at the start of their academic careers whose work combines excellence in a social science discipline with a command of the language and knowledge or expertise of countr

    Published: 2024-06-24 Type: PhD Study in: United States Value: $75,000 Deadline: September 20, 2024

  • Humboldt Foundation 2024 Research Fellowship for Researchers

    The Humboldt Research Fellowship for researchers of all nationalities and research areas: We support you with your research in Germany. Through the Humboldt Research Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors researchers with above-average qualifications from across the

    Published: 2024-06-24 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: November 29, 2024

  • Canon Collins Trust Tom Queba and Pegasys Scholarships for Social Change 2024

    Canon Collins Trust in partnership with Tom Queba Memorial Fund and Pegasys invites applications for scholarships for Honours and Masters study at South African universities in 2025. We will provide funding for up to a maximum of two years and an opportunity to enhance your acade

    Published: 2024-06-21 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa Deadline: July 22, 2024

  • Royal Holloway University of London 2024 International Partners Scholarship

    Royal Holloway University of London offers tuition fee reduction for students from selected partner institutions in China and India. Two scholarships are available for students who join Royal Holloway from one of the universities listed below. 

    Published: 2024-06-20 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Value: £6,000 Deadline: June 21, 2024

  • France-South Africa 2024 Scholarship Programme for Graduate South Africans

    The programme is open to South African, Malawian & Lesothan students. The current call for applications is open for students who intend to start their studies in France in September 2025. Applicants will be contacted individually as needed. The list of the laureates and the waiting

    Published: 2024-06-20 Type: Postgraduate Study in: France, Lesotho, South Africa Deadline: October 14, 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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