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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 5)

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

  • 2025 Gerald B. Healy, MD, FACS, Traveling Mentorship Fellowship

    The colleagues and friends of Dr. Gerald B. Healy have established funding for an annual mentoring fellowship program in his honor. Mentorship is one of the hallmarks of academic and professional success. This program is intended to help young surgeons develop new ideas, innovative approaches, an

    Published: 2025-05-19 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: June 2, 2025

  • 2025 ACU Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentships Program for Ph.D. Students

    The Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth PhD Studentships provide support for research projects on Commonwealth-related themes in the humanities and social sciences. Proposed research must meet at least one of the following criteria:  Relate to the Commonwealth as a whole or to

    Published: 2025-05-19 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: July 31, 2025

  • 2025 African Young Women Leaders (AfYWL) Fellowship Programme

    The African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme offers an interesting 12-month assignment with UNDP at its HQ in New York or in one of its regional or country offices. There will be no placement in hardship locations.   Location: UNDP at Headquarters in New York or in a region

    Published: 2025-05-19 Type: Fellowship Deadline: June 1, 2025

  • Call for Applications: GHC Africa Leadership Accelerator Fellowship 2025

    Global Health Corps (GHC) is excited to launch our new Africa Leadership Accelerator Fellowship, a 9-month, hybrid program designed to strengthen the leadership and management skills of early to mid-career health professionals ages 21-35, working across Sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa Leadership A

    Published: 2025-05-19 Type: Fellowship Study in: Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia Deadline: June 20, 2025

  • UQ 2025 Onshore Merit Scholarship

    The purpose of the Scholarship is to provide assistance with tuition fees for high-achieving international onshore students who are commencing a relevant degree program at The University of Queensland in Semester 1 or 2, 2025.

    Published: 2025-05-19 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Australia Value: A$5000 - $10,000 Deadline: Not Specified

  • GreenLead 2025 African Climate Leaders Fellowship

    The African Climate Leaders Fellowship (ACLF) by GreenLead is a free sustainability and climate capacity-building program designed for young Africans aged 18-35. It equips participants with the knowledge and skills to drive climate action and sustainability initiatives at the community/local level.

    Published: 2025-05-19 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified

  • Apply Now: DAAD Helmut-Schmidt Masters Scholarship for Developing Countries 2026

    The DAAD Helmut-Schmidt-Programme (known as Public Policy and Good Governance) supports future leaders from developing countries (see list of countries), who want to promote democracy and social justice in their home countries. The programme, which is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, off

    Published: 2025-05-19 Type: Masters Study in: Germany Deadline: July 31, 2025

  • TU Berlin Chorafas Prize for PhD Students 2025

    The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation annually awards international prizes to doctoral students with outstanding research work who are expected to complete or have completed their doctoral thesis within the current calendar year. The goal is to support outstanding young researchers by providing them

    Published: 2025-05-16 Type: PhD Study in: Germany Deadline: May 16, 2025

  • 2025 AWARD Climate Action (ACA) Fellowship for African Women

    The AWARD Climate Action (ACA) Fellowship seeks to achieve a twin goal of increasing the number of African women leading climate change action and catalyze production of climate solutions that work for women smallholders. The Fellowship is designed to address systemic gender inequalitie

    Published: 2025-05-16 Type: Fellowship Deadline: June 30, 2025

  • Imperial College London 2025 Cardiovascular and Respiratory Healthcare scholarship

    The Cardiovascular and Respiratory Healthcare Scholarship supports exceptional students pursuing a Master’s research degree within the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) at Imperial College London. Open to both Home and Overseas applicants for the 2025/26 academic year, the scholarship o

    Published: 2025-05-16 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Value: £2,000 Deadline: May 31, 2025

  • Imperial College London Bioscience Futures Scholarship

    The Bioscience Futures Scholarship is a £5,000 award available to one outstanding student enrolling in the MSc Bioscience Futures: Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme at Imperial College London’s National Heart and Lung Institute for the 2025/26 academic year. Open t

    Published: 2025-05-16 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Value: £5,000 Deadline: June 2, 2025

  • University of Sheffield 2025 Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust Masters Scholarships for Developing Countries

    We are delighted to offer 3 Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust masters scholarships for eligible overseas fee-paying students starting their studies in September 2025. The University of Sheffield has a strong commitment to international development. One of the themes of our strategy is &ls

    Published: 2025-05-16 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: June 2, 2025

  • University of Bristol Business School 2025 Advance scholarship

    Funding towards tuition fees for home-fee paying, taught postgraduate Business School students.   

    Published: 2025-05-16 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Value: £10,000 Deadline: November 30, -0001

  • Western Union Foundation Fellowship Program 2025

    The Western Union Global Fellowship Program is a fully-funded Impact Fellowship, empowering individuals supporting or hailing from refugee, highly-marginalized, or  forcibly displaced communities around the globe. Through this experience, Fellows will gain essential skills, resou

    Published: 2025-05-16 Type: Fellowship Deadline: July 1, 2025

  • RWTH Aachen University Equal Opportunity Scholarship 2025

    The International Office awards the Equal Opportunity Scholarship via the DAAD’s STIBET I Program, which is funded by the Federal Foreign Office. The scholarship is intended for international students who have extenuating circumstances during their studies.

    Published: 2025-05-15 Type: PhD Study in: Germany Deadline: May 15, 2025

  • 2025 RWTH Aachen University of Alberta Junior Research Fellowships

    Master's students and doctoral candidates from both the University of Alberta and RWTH Aachen Conducting research as part of the Master's or doctoral thesis (including research internships)

    Published: 2025-05-15 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: July 31, 2025

  • AROP Fellowship for Research Stays 2025 at RWTH Aachen University

    RWTH offers fellowships and travel grants to support research stays of doctoral candidates and postdocs from strategically relevant international universities or research institutions. Funding is provided by the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. The goal of the Adva

    Published: 2025-05-15 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: September 30, 2025

  • University of Adelaide G.O. Lawrence Scholarship 2025

    The G.O. Lawrence Scholarship has been established from a bequest to the University from Mrs Alice Eileen Lawrence in 1966 in memory of Gordon Ord Lawrence who was a teacher of conservative dentistry in the Dental School from 1940 to 1960.

    Published: 2025-05-14 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Deadline: November 7, 2025

  • ARC Industry Fellowship PhD Scholarship 2025 at University of Adelaide

    This PhD scholarship is funded by an Australian Research Council Industry Fellowship grant. It is a 3.5-year research training program. The ARC Industry Fellowship program aims to develop a strong pipeline of researchers in Australia with capabilities in research collaboration, translation and comme

    Published: 2025-05-14 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Deadline: September 27, 2025

  • Call for Applications RMI’s Global Women in Clean Energy Fellowship 2025 for Women

    RMI’s Global Women in Clean Energy Fellowship is now accepting applications from women professionals in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Zambia. This fellowship is designed to empower emerging leaders with the skills, networks, and resources needed to drive the clean energy transition in their countries

    Published: 2025-05-14 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zambia Deadline: May 21, 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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