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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 81)

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

  • ACS-COSECSA Women Scholars Programme for African Women Surgeons 2023

    There is a severe shortage of surgeons in Sub-Saharan Africa. Current data indicate that there are only 0.5 surgeons for every 100,000 people. Although women make up more than 50 percent of the population, they represent only 7 percent of the surgical work force. To help address this problem,

    Published: 2023-01-12 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 15, 2023

  • Swedish Institute Management Programme Africa for Young African Leaders 2023

    At the Swedish Institute, we have created unique development programme which brings together people from different African countries in an enhanced collaborative environment, where they can co-create solutions between business and other sector organisations in your country which have a gen

    Published: 2023-01-12 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 13, 2023

  • TikTok Internship Program for PhD Students 2023

    The Machine Learning Fairness team in London is working on challenging problems in the field of Responsible AI, specifically focusing on Fairness, Transparency, and Explainability. Working at TikTok gives you the unique opportunity to do cutting-edge research and also offers you opportunities to dep

    Published: 2023-01-11 Type: PhD Deadline: Not Specified

  • PhD Scholarships 2023

    The scholarship will cover: Round-trip flight ticket and visa costs. Participation costs such as tuition fees, registration fees and service fees where applicable. Insurance coverage (including health, accident, travel, respectively). A settling-in allowance. A monthly subsistence allo

    Published: 2023-01-11 Type: PhD Deadline: January 30, 2023

  • Masters Scholarship 2023

    The scholarship will cover: Round-trip flight ticket and visa costs. Participation costs such as tuition fees, registration fees and service fees where applicable. Insurance coverage (including health, accident, travel, respectively). A settling-in allowance. A monthly subsistence allo

    Published: 2023-01-11 Type: Masters Deadline: January 30, 2023

  • UCPH Danish Government Scholarship for Master Students 2023

    The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) offers a limited number of tuition waivers and grants through the Danish Government Scholarship programme. The scholarships are competitive and offered to highly talented students with outstanding academic records from non-EU/EEU countries. All non-EU/EEA applican

    Published: 2023-01-09 Type: Masters Study in: Denmark Deadline: January 15, 2023

  • AHRI/UCL PhD Studentship Awards for African Students 2023

    The AHRI/UCL PhD Studentship award covers tuition fees and living costs for two candidates to undertake a PhD at UCL. The award is funded by UCL’s Division of Infection and Immunity and is open to applicants who permanently reside in South Africa. The proposed PhD research must be

    Published: 2023-01-09 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa, United Kingdom Deadline: June 2, 2023

  • ICGEB SMART Fellowship Programme for Developing Countries 2023

    The ICGEB SMART Fellowship programme promotes the mobility of researchers between ICGEB Member States as a way of enhancing skill development, acquisition of specific hands-on training in new technologies and increasing cooperation in science and technology and should show clear evidence o

    Published: 2023-01-08 Type: Fellowship Study in: India, Italy, South Africa Deadline: March 31, 2023

  • Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue (BETD) Media Fellowship for Journalists Worldwide 2023

    The German Government invites the world to its annual inspiring dialogue on the Global Energiewende, the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue  (#betd23), which has become the leading international forum on the green energy transformation. Every year, high-level participants fro

    Published: 2022-12-30 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: January 15, 2023

  • U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Leadership Development Fellowship 2023

    Since 2007, the Leadership Development Fellowship (LDF Fellowship) has provided leaders from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region with the opportunity to complete training in leadership, civic engagement, and social entrepreneurship.  Emerging civic engagement and social entrepreneurs

    Published: 2022-12-30 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: January 16, 2023

  • Asian Development Bank Scholarships For International Students 2023-2024

    The 2023-2024 ADB-Japan Scholarship application is now open. Applications are invited from eligible graduate students across eligible countries wishing to study in Japan fully funded. The ADB-Japan Scholarship Program (JSP) offers about 135 postgraduate scholarships a year for studies i

    Published: 2022-12-30 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: Not Specified

  • University of Dundee Vice Chancellor’s Africa Scholarship 2023-2024

    The University of Dundee Vice Chancellor’s Africa Scholarship is available for applications from eligible and outstanding candidates who wish to enrol in a degree program at the University for 2023/2024 academic session Note:  Scholarships, bursaries, sponsorships and any other

    Published: 2022-12-29 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: August 31, 2023

  • United Nations ECA Fellowship Programme for Young African Professionals 2023

    ECA is the regional arm of the United Nations in Africa. Its mandate is to promote the economic and social development of Africa. ECA's dual role as a regional arm of the UN, and a part of the regional institutional landscape in Africa, positions it well to make unique contributions to member St

    Published: 2022-12-28 Type: Fellowship Deadline: January 29, 2023

  • Harry Frank Guggenheim (HFG) Emerging Scholar Awards for Graduate-Student Researchers 2023

    The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards (formerly the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships) recognize promising graduate-student researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence. The Foundation welcomes proposals from

    Published: 2022-12-23 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 1, 2023

  • Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) Writing Workshop for Early Career Researchers 2023

    The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) seeks to provide Africa-based early career researchers working on the themes of peace, democracy and climate change on the continent with the space and intellectual community to transform a draft paper into a publishable journal piece. T

    Published: 2022-12-23 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana Deadline: January 20, 2023

  • Marquette University O'Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism (USA) 2023

    O’Brien Fellows complete an in-depth reporting project of their choosing on a topic of state, regional, national or international interest over two academic semesters. In the past, most Fellows have worked from a home base in the O’Brien newsroom in the Diederich College of Communicat

    Published: 2022-12-22 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: January 20, 2023

  • TWAS-IsDB Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme 2023

    Early-career researchers from the 21 least developed member countries of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) are eligible for an ambitious new postdoctoral programme offered by IsDB and TWAS. The fellowships support research related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, providing reci

    Published: 2022-12-22 Type: PhD Study in: Italy Deadline: March 6, 2023

  • Chinese Government Scholarship Program for International Students (Fully-funded) 2023

    The Chinese University Program offers a fully funded scholarship covering tuition waiver, accommodation, stipend and comprehensive medical insurance and can be taken in any university/higher institution of learning in China.The program is a Chinese Government funded support established by

    Published: 2022-12-22 Type: Postgraduate Study in: China Deadline: Not Specified

  • Max Planck Institute Fellowships Exploring Climate Change, Migration & Urbanisation in Ghana & South Africa 2023

    These positions will be full-time for two years with a starting date of 1 June 2023. Successful applicants will work as core fieldworkers undertaking qualitative/ethnographic research as part of a team relating to the project: Climate Displacement and Diversification: Changing Patterns of Migrati

    Published: 2022-12-21 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana, South Africa Deadline: February 3, 2023

  • LSHTM Lieutenant Colonel Henry Kirkpatrick Scholarship 2023-2024

    A bequest to the School, by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Kirkpatrick’s daughters Elsie and Daphne Kirkpatrick, endowed funding to set up scholarships ‘for the promotion and encouragement of study in the ophthalmic section’ in memory of their father.          &n

    Published: 2022-12-21 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: April 16, 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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