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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2024-2025 (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 2024-2025, 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

  • U.S. Department of State Professional Fellowship Program for Africans 2024

    The Professional Fellows Program on Inclusive Civic Engagement is a professional program funded by the US Department of State for emerging leaders in Africa. It focuses on exchanging and implementing best practices for inclusive civic engagement. Every year, the program typically supports

    Published: 2024-03-06 Type: Fellowship Deadline: March 15, 2024

  • DAAD Short-Term Research Grants 2024

    DAAD Short-Term Research Grants for Developing Countries 2024 is now open The primary aim of this programme is to promote research projects within the context of doctoral programmes.

    Published: 2024-03-05 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: May 2, 2024

  • Mongabay Africa Scholarship Program for Environmental Journalism 2024

    Mongabay Africa is launching its French-speaking scholarship program for environmental journalism on the African continent. A course that allows aspiring journalists residing in key biodiversity locations to produce reports on crucial environmental issues. The objective: to contribute to t

    Published: 2024-03-04 Type: Fellowship Deadline: March 15, 2024

  • LLM/MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) at University Of Pretoria 2024

    The LLM/MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) is a prestigious one-year intensive course where 25-30 exceptional individuals spend six months in Pretoria and six months at one of the 12 partner universities all over Africa. They are taught by eminent lecturers in the f

    Published: 2024-03-04 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa Deadline: July 31, 2024

  • UNHCR UNICORE Project for African Students 2024

    Refugees residing in Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe can apply for one of the 68 scholarships in 41 Italian universities. The Florence School Transnational Governance (STG) will welcome one student to its two-year Master in Transnational Governa

    Published: 2024-03-04 Type: Fellowship Study in: Italy, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe Deadline: April 15, 2024

  • Edward Consulting MPOWER Financing Scholarship 2024

    MPOWER Financing and Edward Consulting, two companies dedicated to assisting African students in realizing their aspirations for quality education abroad, have come together to award a Scholarship. The initiative aims to empower and aid international students in their quest for education excellence

    Published: 2024-03-04 Type: Masters Deadline: May 24, 2024

  • Mongabay Africa Environmental Reporting Fellowship 2024

    Mongabay Africa is launching its French-speaking scholarship program for environmental journalism on the African continent. A course that allows aspiring journalists residing in key biodiversity locations to produce reports on crucial environmental issues. The objective: to contribute to t

    Published: 2024-03-04 Type: Fellowship Deadline: July 1, 2024

  • UGHE Masters in Global Nursing Leadership Admissions for African Students 2024

    UGHE’s Office of Admissions takes a holistic approach to the admissions process. The Admissions Committee takes into account a broad range of application criteria, including supplemental documents, professional experience, exams, interviews, and overall alignment with the UGHE’s mission

    Published: 2024-03-04 Type: Masters Study in: Rwanda Deadline: March 31, 2024

  • University Of Michigan High Potential Scholarship Program for International Students 2024

    The High Potential Scholarship programme offers 150 Partial scholarships of $35,000 (including tuition fee reduction and monthly stipend) each academic year for highly talented students from outside the United States who have been admitted to an Undergraduate, master’s, PhD programme at the Un

    Published: 2024-03-04 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: March 20, 2024

  • ICTP Arab Fund Postgraduate Fellowships 2024

    The ICTP-Arab Fund Programme will support 10 new fellowships for PhD students from Arab countries to access ICTP’s research and training facilities in the years 2024-2026. The fellowships will allow fellows to visit ICTP for a total of 11 months, split into three visit

    Published: 2024-03-01 Type: Fellowship Deadline: April 15, 2024

  • ICTP Postgraduate Diploma Scholarship Program for African Students 2024

    The Postgraduate Diploma Programme started in 1991, and since then, many of its graduates have gone on to do PhDs at various prestigious universities, including in Europe and North America. Many of them, after a few postdoctoral stints abroad, have returned to their home countries, where they are ac

    Published: 2024-03-01 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: March 15, 2024

  • MSc in Development Policy and Politics (with Mo Ibrahim Foundation Internship) at University of Birmingham 2024

    The International Development Department, University of Birmingham, is pleased to offer one scholarship for our MSc in Development Policy and Politics (with Mo Ibrahim Foundation Internship).  The scholarship is provided by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and is for a two-year programme, with the

    Published: 2024-02-29 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Value: £950 Deadline: April 8, 2024

  • AKO Master’s Scholarships for South Asia, Africa Or Latin America at LSE 2024

    The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science (PBS) is a growing community of researchers, intellectuals, and students who investigate the human mind and behaviour in a societal context. Our department conducts cutting-edge psychological and behavioural research that is both based in and a

    Published: 2024-02-29 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: April 25, 2024

  • Postgraduate Diploma Programme for Developing Countries at ICTP 2024

    An intense, pre-PhD programme for talented students Supporting its mission to promote advanced scientific research in developing countries, ICTP offers a Postgraduate Diploma Programme that prepares talented students for PhD studies. The Postgraduate Diploma Programme started in 1991, and sinc

    Published: 2024-02-29 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: March 15, 2024

  • Ph.D. Academy on Innovation and Competence Building Systems 2024

    The AfricaLics network is an academic research and capacity building network that focuses on how innovation occurs, this is the process through which new or improved products, processes, organizational forms, ways of working and acting are introduced into new environments, and the relationship this

    Published: 2024-02-27 Type: Fellowship Deadline: March 22, 2024

  • Call for Application: ETH4D Doctoral Mentorship Grants 2024

    ETH4D provides grants for mentoring doctoral candidates from low- and lower-middle-income countries. The mentorship is a one-year appointment and comprises the following components: Mentorship from one ETH professor, senior scientist or postdoc over a period of one year of the mentee’s d

    Published: 2024-02-27 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: March 30, 2024

  • Sub-Saharan Africa Program - Call for Application 2024

    The L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science sub-Saharan Africa regional program aims to promote and encourage the participation of young African women in science. This program identifies and rewards young talented researchers in the formal sciences, life and environmental sciences, mat

    Published: 2024-02-27 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: March 15, 2024

  • WIPO Academy - [AIP] University Partnerships Program (Zimbabwe) 2024

    This Master’s Degree is offered jointly with the WIPO Academy, the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), and Africa University (Mutare, Zimbabwe), with financial assistance from the Government of Japan. Subjects covered  Genera

    Published: 2024-02-27 Type: Masters Study in: Zimbabwe Deadline: March 1, 2024

  • DAAD SBW Berlin Scholarship Program for International Students 2024

    The SBW Berlin scholarship programme supports social commitment through the development of social projects during the scholarship recipients’ studies and includes various types of scholarships. The scholarships are only granted for a limited period, usually for the upcoming semester. Social

    Published: 2024-02-26 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Germany Deadline: Not Specified

  • OWSD Early Career Fellowships for Women 2024

    The OWSD Early Career Fellowship is a prestigious award of up to USD 50,000 offered to women who have completed their PhDs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and are employed at an academic or scientific research institute in one of the listed Science and Techno

    Published: 2024-02-26 Type: Fellowship Deadline: March 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.