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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2023-2024 (Page 78)

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 2023-2024, 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

      • McKinsey African Leaders on the Move for Young Africans 2021

      • McKinsey has six offices in Africa – Johannesburg, Lagos, Luanda, Casablanca, Nairobi, Addis Ababa. We serve many leading African organizations across sectors including energy and materials, financial services, consumer goods and retail, telecommunications, infrastructure and logistics, as wel
        • Deadline: November 12, 2021
        • Posted: September 27, 2021
      • Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Scholarships for Sub-Saharan African Students 2021

      • The Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Programme is built on a partnership agreement between the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB).  This collaboration seeks to contribute to the implementation
        • Deadline: September 30, 2021
        • Posted: September 27, 2021
      • APHRC MSc Fellowship in Epidemiology & Biostatistics 2021

      • Successful candidates will be part of a networked cohort of highly skilled applied epidemiologists (Epi fellows) who are able to work with National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) and National Ministry of Health (MoH) Departments to improve their levels of preparedness, field surveillance, and resp
        • Deadline: October 29, 2021
        • Posted: September 27, 2021
      • Noble Missions Active Citizen Fellowship for Young Leaders (Nigeria) 2021-2022

      • Applications are open for the Active Citizen Fellowship 2021. The Active Citizen Fellowship is a rigorous hands-on learning program designed for young leaders in Nigeria who have demonstrated passion and commitment in the past to promote democracy and/or improve the quality of life in their com
        • Deadline: October 17, 2021
        • Posted: September 24, 2021
      • Vital Voices GROW Fellowship Accelerator Program 2022

      • The Vital Voices GROW Fellowship is a highly competitive one-year accelerator program for women owners of small and medium businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. The program includes customized business skills training, technical assi
        • Deadline: September 27, 2021
        • Posted: September 24, 2021
      • COVIDHQAfrica Amplify HQ Creative Fellowship Programme for Content Creators 2021

      • The HQ team is making a call for applications for Amplify HQ, a paid two-month creative Fellowship program for African storytellers and creators, with a lens focused on Africa’s narratives and stories coming from the pandemic. Amplify is a partnership of TheZVG and Mastercard Foundation, and A
        • Deadline: October 10, 2021
        • Posted: September 23, 2021
      • MSU Nnamdi Azikiwe Award for African Students 2021

      • A fellowship of up to $2,000 to support international African students travel to Africa for research. The award honors former Nigerian President Nnamdi Azikiwe, a scholar and politician, who led Nigeria as its first civilian president and who invited MSU faculty to join him and other Niger
        • Deadline: September 30, 2021
        • Posted: September 23, 2021
      • Natural Justice African Environmental Defenders Fellowship 2021

      • African Environmental Defenders play an important role in protecting their lands and ecosystems from unsustainable industrial development, logging and extractive projects. But the nature of their work can expose them to significant risks. Throughout the world, there are ever-incr
        • Deadline: September 24, 2021
        • Posted: September 23, 2021
      • FMSH Atlas Postdoctoral Fellowship for East African Researchers 2021

      • This research stay is designed to enable researchers to conduct research studies in France: field enquiries, library and archives work.  This call is part of the Atlas short-term postdoctoral mobility programme offered by the FMSH and its partners.
        • Deadline: December 10, 2021
        • Posted: September 22, 2021
      • PAGES Inter-Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program 2021

      • The program aims to give limited support for travel and subsistence to early-career researchers from African countries (PhD students and postdocs at African institutions), who are interested in gaining experience in another African country. The final goal is to contribute to the development of colla
        • Deadline: October 30, 2021
        • Posted: September 22, 2021
      • African Union Digital and Innovation Fellowship Program for African Graduates 2021

      • Applications are invited from suitably qualified African graduates for the AU Digital and Innovation Fellowship 2021 which aims at identifying and deploying highly competent tech innovators to African Union Headquarters. The fellowship will provide a platform for the innovator
        • Deadline: October 4, 2021
        • Posted: September 22, 2021
      • University of Ghana MIASA Fellowships (Junior/Senior) for African Scholars 2022-2023

      • The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) is dedicated to research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, with ‘Sustainable Governance’ as its central topic. Our main thematic corridors are conflict and sustainable peace, democracy and environmental t
        • Deadline: November 15, 2021
        • Posted: September 20, 2021
      • Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young Africans 2021

      • The U.S. Department of State and IREX is pleased to announce the Mandela Washington Fellowship Program 2021/2022 to participate in a six-week Leadership Institute at a U.S. college or university to share your experiences with and learn from U.S. citizens and other Fellows. The Fellowship&nbs
        • Deadline: September 15, 2021
        • Posted: September 20, 2021
      • IBRO-MENA School and Conference on Clinical Neuroscience 2021

      • The aim of this IBRO-MENA school and conference is to introduce students to neurogenomics and to try to bridge the gap between basic neuroscience and clinical practice. The course consists of a 3-day advanced neurogenetics school followed by a 3-day clinical neuroscience conference. The school ai
        • Deadline: September 19, 2021
        • Posted: September 20, 2021
      • I Tatti/DHI Rom Joint Fellowship for African Studies 2022-2023

      • I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the German Historical Institute in Rome (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom) offer a joint residential fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year.  With this fellowship, I Tatti and the DHI Rom seek to stim
        • Deadline: November 15, 2021
        • Posted: September 20, 2021
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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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