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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 51)

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

  • MOPGA Visiting Fellowship Program for Young Researchers 2024

    France, as a major player in the fight against climate change and guarantor of the spirit of the Paris Agreement, is launching a new MOPGA visiting fellowship program geared towards strengthening scientific contributions to climate change issues raised by the COPs.  This seventh Make Our Pla

    Published: 2023-11-17 Type: Fellowship Deadline: January 9, 2024

  • Maastricht University Masters Scholarship for International Students 2024

    The Maastricht University (UM) NL-High Potential Scholarship programme offers 24 full scholarships of € 30,000 (including tuition fee waiver and monthly stipend) each academic year for highly talented students from outside the European Union (EU) who have been admitted to a master’s progr

    Published: 2023-11-17 Type: Masters Deadline: February 1, 2024

  • Iowa State University Borel Global Fellows Program for Sub-Saharan African Students 2024

    Thanks to a generous gift from ISU alumni Jim (’78 agricultural business) and Marcia (’78 family environment) Borel, the Borel Global Fellows Program was launched in 2018. The Borel Global Fellows Program supports students from Sub-Saharan Africa to pursue graduate studies at Iowa State

    Published: 2023-11-16 Type: Fellowship Deadline: January 15, 2024

  • British Council GREAT Scholarships for African Students 2024

    GREAT Scholarships offers numerous scholarships from UK universities, across a variety of subjects for students from the countries below. Each scholarship is worth a minimum of £10,000 towards tuition fees for a one-year postgraduate course.  On each country’s dedicated page

    Published: 2023-11-16 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified

  • University of Oxford Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme 2024

    The Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme was established in 2015 thanks to generous donations from multiple donors to mark the 95th birthday of Lord Weidenfeld. In June 2017, Trustee and Chairman André Hoffmann made an additional donation of £9m to the Tr

    Published: 2023-11-15 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified

  • Boustany Foundation MBA Scholarship at Cambridge University 2024

    The Cambridge MBA is one of the world’s leading business programmes, taught at one of the world’s most prestigious universities. Scholarship recipients become members of Pembroke College, the third oldest and one of the most highly regarded colleges.The Boustany MBA Cambridge Scholars

    Published: 2023-11-15 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: May 15, 2024

  • Ghent University Doctoral Scholarship for Developing Countries 2024

    With support from its “Special Research Fund” (BOF) Ghent University grants PhD “sandwich” scholarships to promising PhD students from developing countries who wish to carry out half of their PhD research at Ghent University ('North') and half at a university in a dev

    Published: 2023-11-15 Type: PhD Study in: Belgium Deadline: February 20, 2024

  • Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at University of British Columbia 2024

    The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the best universities in the world. UBC’s vision is to create an exceptional learning environment that fosters global citizenship, advances a civil and sustainable society, and

    Published: 2023-11-15 Type: Masters Deadline: December 1, 2023

  • Harvard University Ashton Award for Student Research 2024

    The Ashton Award for Student Research supports investigations by graduate and advanced undergraduate students working on Asian tropical forest biology. The Ashton Award for Student Research is made possible by the generosity of Professor Peter Ashton and his wife Mary Ashton through the Peter and

    Published: 2023-11-14 Type: Postgraduate Study in: , United States Deadline: February 1, 2024

  • Stipendium Hungaricum (Government Of Hungary) Scholarships for International Students 2024

    Thousands of students from all around the world apply for higher educational studies in Hungary each year. The number of Stipendium Hungaricum applicants is continuously increasing as well as the number of available scholarship places. The programme is based on bilateral educational cooperation a

    Published: 2023-11-14 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Hungary Deadline: January 15, 2024

  • Wenner-Gren Foundation Wadsworth African PhD Fellowships In Anthropology for African Students 2024

    The Wadsworth African Fellowships are intended to provide support for African students undertaking study leading to a Ph.D. at a South African university that can provide them with international-level training in anthropology (including biological anthropology and archaeology). Currently applic

    Published: 2023-11-14 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 15, 2023

  • Hasselts University Masters Scholarship for Developing Countries 2024

    The Hasselts University Scholarship offers twelve students from developing countries a scholarship to obtain a master’s degree in Transportation Sciences (specialization: Road Safety). Applications are now open. The International Course Programme (ICP) anually offers twelve students fr

    Published: 2023-11-14 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Belgium Deadline: February 1, 2024

  • University Of Debrecen Postgraduate Scholarship for Developing Countries 2024

    For the academic year of 2024/25, yet another 1000+ applicants received the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship and will study at the University of Debrecen for free. Apply and be part of a great international student community in the heart of Europe Stipendium Hungaricum, being the most

    Published: 2023-11-14 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Hungary Deadline: January 15, 2024

  • International Court of Justice (ICJ) Judicial Fellowship Programme 2024

    The Judicial Fellowship Programme, formerly known as the University Traineeship Programme, was established in 1999 to enable recent law graduates to gain professional experience by working for the International Court of Justice. The programme aims to improve participants’ understanding of publ

    Published: 2023-11-13 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 5, 2024

  • ENS International Selection Scholarships for Masters Students (France) 2024

    International Selection Scholarships allows the most promising international students, either in Science or in Arts & Humanities, to follow a three-year Masters Degree at the University. Joining ENS through the competitive examination of the International selection gives access

    Published: 2023-11-10 Type: Masters Study in: France Deadline: December 11, 2023

  • Reporter ohne Grenzen Berlin Fellowship Program 2024

    Reporters Without Borders Germany is calling for applications for its Berlin Fellowship Program: Empowering Journalists in the Digital Field. From May 2024 until the end of October 2024 six journalists from crisis areas will be invited to Berlin for a period of six months. Durin

    Published: 2023-11-10 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 4, 2023

  • University of Essex Africa Postgraduate Scholarship 2023-2024 and 2024-2025

    If you're an international student from a member state of the African Union and are self-funding your postgraduate studies, you could be eligible for a scholarship of £4,500, paid as a discount on your first year’s tuition fee.

    Published: 2023-11-09 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified

  • Stias Iso Lomso Fellowship 2024

    Iso Lomso means ‘the eye of tomorrow’ in isiXhosa: seeing towards the future, laying the foundations for tomorrow. The programme is aimed at African scholars who have obtained a doctoral degree within the preceding seven years and who hold an academic position at a university or research

    Published: 2023-11-09 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 15, 2024

  • SA-CERN Programme Excellence MSc/PhD Bursary 2024

    The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Under the auspices of the SACERN Programme, administered by NRF-iThemba LABS, researchers and postgraduate students from South Africa contribute to CERN’s ALICE, ATLAS, and ISOLDE exp

    Published: 2023-11-09 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: December 22, 2023

  • King AbdulAziz University Scholarship Program for International Students 2024

    The Deanship of Graduate Studies at King Abdulaziz University offers scholarships to international students in fully funded programs in most graduate programs according to the following classifications: The King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, presents an exceptional scholarship pro

    Published: 2023-11-09 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Saudi Arabia Deadline: December 28, 2023

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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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