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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 33)

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

  • CAPSI Mastercard Foundation 2024 PhD Fellowship

    The Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at the Wits Business School (University of the Witwatersrand), with the support of the Mastercard Foundation invites applications for Doctoral Fellowship on the Non-Profit Sector and its Contribution to African Economies proj

    Published: 2024-08-30 Type: PhD Deadline: September 16, 2024

  • Lakehead University Masters Scholarship for International Students 2024

    This is an interdisciplinary program offered jointly by the Departments of Anthropology and Geography and the Environment, designed to train graduates to investigate, understand and appreciate issues of environment and culture, including environmental equity. Click here 

    Published: 2024-08-30 Type: Masters Study in: Canada Value: $20,000 Deadline: Not Specified

  • TWAS 2024 Fellowships for Research and Advanced Training for Young Scientists in Developing Countries

    TWAS offers fellowships to young scientists in developing countries to enable them to spend three to 12 months at a research institution in a developing country other than their own. The purpose of these fellowships is to enhance the research capacity of promising scientists, especially those at the

    Published: 2024-08-27 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 7, 2024

  • Flinders University 2024 PhD Scholarship

    Audiology program within College of Nursing and Health Sciences is looking for a candidate to fill a PhD position to investigate listening in noise in children with hearing loss. Chronic hearing loss in children has serious consequences on language, and social development. While early intervention p

    Published: 2024-08-26 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Deadline: August 30, 2024

  • University of Dundee Global Excellence Scholarship 2025

    The Global Excellence Scholarship is offered by the University of Dundee to international students who have demonstrated outstanding academic performance. The scholarship is available for both undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolling in eligible full-time, on-campus courses starting in Sept

    Published: 2024-08-26 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Value: £5,000 Deadline: August 31, 2024

  • University of Westminster GREAT Scholarship for International Students 2025

    The University of Westminster is proud to work with the GREAT scholarship, which provides a one-off £10,000 tuition fee award and is open to overseas fee-paying students from Egypt, Kenya, Indonesia, and Malaysia with a minimum 2:1 UK degree equivalent. The University of Westminster Interna

    Published: 2024-08-26 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Value: £10,000 Deadline: November 18, 2024

  • Call for Applications: African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC2024) Fellowship

    The African Investigative Journalism Conference invites practicing investigative journalists under the age of 30 to apply for a fellowship to attend #AIJC2024, to be held at Wits University in Johannesburg from October 30 to November 1, 2024.

    Published: 2024-08-23 Type: Fellowship Study in: South Africa Deadline: September 10, 2024

  • East-West Center Jefferson Fellowships for American journalists and Asia Pacific Journalists 2024

    The broad purpose of the Jefferson Fellowships is to enhance public understanding through the news media of issues in the United States and the Asia Pacific through a three-week dialogue, study, and travel program that focuses on a particular theme. This year’s Jefferson Fellowships program

    Published: 2024-08-22 Type: Fellowship Study in: China Deadline: Not Specified

  • DAAD Postgraduate Scholarships in the Field of Architecture 2025

    This scholarship programme offers you the opportunity to continue your education in Germany with a postgraduate or continuing course of study in the field of architecture. The scholarships also promote the exchange of experience and networking amongst colleagues.

    Published: 2024-08-22 Type: Masters Study in: Germany Value: 992 euros Deadline: September 25, 2024

  • PASET Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (Rsif) 2024 PhD Scholarships

    The Partnership for skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET) is an African-led initiative that aims to close the skills gap in the applied sciences, engineering and technology (ASET) necessary for socio-economic transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The Reg

    Published: 2024-08-21 Type: PhD Deadline: September 16, 2024

  • Call for Applications: ARES Belgian Government Masters and Continuing Education Scholarships 2024

    ARES Belgian Government Masters and Continuing Education Scholarships. The ARES scholarships offer you the opportunity to follow a one-year advanced bachelor’s or master’s degree program or a 2-to-6-month continuing education program within a higher education institution of the Wall

    Published: 2024-08-21 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: October 18, 2024

  • DAAD/MIPLC Scholarships Program for Students from Developing Countries

    The Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre is currently offering eligible candidates the DAAD MIPLC Scholarships to international students from developing countries. With its development-oriented postgraduate study programmes, the DAAD promotes the training of specialists from development and ne

    Published: 2024-08-20 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Germany Deadline: October 15, 2024

  • University of Lausanne Masters Grant For International Students 2025

    Masters Scholarships are scholarships for excellence awarded, exclusively to students who have graduated from a foreign university and whose academic results are of a very high level. UNIL grants around ten scholarships a year. The scholarship is granted for the minimum statutory period

    Published: 2024-08-20 Type: Masters Study in: Switzerland Deadline: November 1, 2024

  • DAAD Postgraduate Scholarships in the Field of Music 2025

    The DAAD Postgraduate Scholarships in the Field of Music offer you the opportunity to continue your education in Germany with a postgraduate or continuing course of study in the field of music. This scholarship offers the opportunity to continue postgraduate studies in music in Germany. It suppor

    Published: 2024-08-19 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: Not Specified

  • Yenching Academy Masters Fellowships for International Students 2025

    The Yenching Academy annually enrolls approximately 120 new students from both the Chinese Mainland and abroad, to study, live, and learn together. International students comprise roughly 80% of the student body.

    Published: 2024-08-19 Type: Fellowship Study in: China Deadline: December 3, 2024

  • NRF Mitacs 2024 Globalink Research Award (GRA) Programme

    Gain research experience in South Africa and Canada with the NRF-Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA) programme. The GRA programme supports research collaborations between Canada and select partner organisations, as well as eligible countries and regions. Through the GRA programme, the NRF and Mita

    Published: 2024-08-19 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: August 30, 2024

  • 2024 University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” Programme

    The University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” promotes excellent research at the University of Bayreuth (UBT) and advances the internationalisation of research and networking with the best universities worldwide. Effective immediately, the Centre

    Published: 2024-08-19 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: November 30, -0001

  • Konrad Adenauer Foundation SAIIA 2024 Scholarships for South Africans

    The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung internship, in partnership with SAIIA, offers a unique opportunity for candidates to pursue a Master’s degree in International Relations, Development Studies, Political Science, Economics, Law, Journalism, or related fields at selected South African universities. T

    Published: 2024-08-16 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa Deadline: September 21, 2024

  • University of Strathclyde Beit Strathclyde (BStrath) Scholarships 2025

    The Beit Strathclyde Scholarships have been set up to fully fund one student of exceptional academic calibre from Malawi, Zimbabwe or Zambia to complete a Master’s degree in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Strathclyde in the academic year 2025/26.

    Published: 2024-08-15 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: February 7, 2025

  • AREF 2024 Research Development Fellowship for African Researchers

    AREF Research Fellowship is designed to enable talented, early-career African researchers to develop their own research ideas and specialist skills, to grow their research relationships through collaboration and mentorship, and to work towards a major funding proposal. This year, funding will be mad

    Published: 2024-08-15 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 24, 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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