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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 86)

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

  • Volkswagen Foundation Norbert Elias Fellowships for African Researchers 2023

    Are you interested in interdisciplinary cooperation? Do you want to be part of a high-level international team of researchers? If so, we invite you to apply for a Norbert Elias Fellowship at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld, Germany. ZiF is the Institute for Advanced Study o

    Published: 2022-11-16 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: December 22, 2022

  • CyberSafe Foundation CyberGirls Fellowship for Young African Women 2022

    CyberGirls Fellowship is a free 1-year program that equips girls and women aged 18 – 28 years old with globally sought-after cybersecurity skills, positioning them to start a career in cybersecurity and helping them to seize work opportunities within Africa and across the world. During the

    Published: 2022-11-15 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 4, 2022

  • STIAS Iso Lomso Fellowships for Early Career African Researchers 2023

    Iso Lomso aims to address the gap that exists between completion of the Ph.D. and becoming an established scholar in Africa. While there is increasing support for doctoral study and for post-doctoral fellowships, it is during the extended post-doctoral period that the greatest loss of talent occurs.

    Published: 2022-11-15 Type: Fellowship Deadline: February 15, 2023

  • Oxford University Standard Bank Africa Chairman’s Scholarship 2023-2024

    The Standard Bank Africa Chairman scholarship is awarded to three outstanding African students wishing to undertake a 1 year Masters programme at the University of Oxford.

    Published: 2022-11-15 Type: Masters Deadline: Not Specified

  • ADH Community ‘Climate’ Journalism Fellowship Cohort 3 for Nigerian Journalists 2022

    Orodata Science is proud to announce the call for applications for the third cohort of the African Data Hub (ADH) community journalism fellowship. This new call is designed differently from the others as it seeks reporters focused on documenting and reporting on the health challenges

    Published: 2022-11-15 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: Not Specified

  • University of Oxford Commonwealth Shared Scholarships for Developing Countries 2023-2024

    University of Oxford Commonwealth 2023-2024 Shared Scholarships. The University of Oxford is offering the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme for students from select developing countries.

    Published: 2022-11-14 Type: Masters Deadline: December 13, 2022

  • Google Research Scholar Program for Early-career Professors (up to $60,000) 2023

    The Research Scholar Programme aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google. The Research Scholar Programme provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world and is focused on funding world-class research conducted b

    Published: 2022-11-14 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 1, 2022

  • University British Columbia (UBC) Future Forests Fellowship Program 2023

    The fellowship recipient will enroll in our PhD program and conduct research focused in British Columbia in one of the following areas: Forest Products Biotechnology  – Bioenergy – Forest Genomics – Climate Change – Urban Forestry – Forest Management – Con

    Published: 2022-11-14 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: November 25, 2022

  • Thomson Reuters Foundation Dual-track: 'S' in ESG, Reporting on Corporate Social Impact 2022

    Thomson Reuters Foundation’s ‘S’ in ESG: Reporting on Corporate Social Impact offers an excellent opportunity for financial, business and/or investigative journalists in South Africa to gather virtually for training, knowledge sharing, expert sessions

    Published: 2022-11-11 Type: Fellowship Deadline: November 15, 2022

  • DAAD Scholarship Programmes Eastern Africa for Postgraduate African Students 2022

    The objective of this DAAD Scholarships Within East Africa programme is to promote the development of university teaching staff in universities and build capacity for staff in the public sector through postgraduate training in selected postgraduate study programmes at the institutions listed below.

    Published: 2022-11-11 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: December 9, 2022

  • AUC African Graduate Fellowships 2023

    The African Graduate Fellowship is a competitive fellowship program for bright, highly motivated African students interested in pursuing a master's degree at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Each year, fellowships are offered to nationals of African countries (not including Egyptians) for

    Published: 2022-11-11 Type: Fellowship Study in: Egypt Deadline: January 15, 2023

  • VLIR-UOS Scholarships for Masters (ICP Connect) for Developing Countries 2022

    ICP Connect study programmes are accredited international study programmes. We award scholarships to applicants from 29 eligible countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to attend one of the 15 master's programmes taught in English at one or more Flemish universities. VLIR-UOS provi

    Published: 2022-11-11 Type: Masters Deadline: Not Specified

  • UK Scholarships for Developing Countries 2023-2024

    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.  Each scholarship is jointly funded by

    Published: 2022-11-11 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified

  • British Council GREAT Scholarships for Developing Countries 2023

     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.  Each scholarship is jointly fund

    Published: 2022-11-11 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified

  • Wageningen University&Research Africa Scholarship Programme for African Students 2023

    The Africa Scholarship Programme (ASP) offers talented and motivated students from Africa the unique opportunity to pursue a Master’s degree at Wageningen University and to support capacity building in Africa

    Published: 2022-11-10 Type: Masters Study in: Netherlands Deadline: February 1, 2023

  • Chalmers University of Technology Avancez Scholarship for African Students 2023

    The Chalmers University of Technology is awarding a good number of scholarships funded by the Chalmers Foundation to interested applicants who are liable to pay tuition fees for Swedish university education. This Tuition fee reduction (up to 75%) scholarship program will be awarded to successful app

    Published: 2022-11-10 Type: Masters Study in: Sweden Deadline: January 15, 2023

  • ETH Zurich Excellence Scholarships for Postgraduate Students - Switzerland 2023

    The Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme (ESOP) supports students with a scholarship, mentorship and a network of the ETH Foundation covering the full study and living costs during the master’s programme. The ETH-D Scholarship contains a partial stipend as well as additional offe

    Published: 2022-11-10 Type: Masters Study in: Switzerland Deadline: December 15, 2022

  • Leapfrog Group Bruce Bradley Fellowship 2023

    The Leapfrog Group seeks applications from experienced professionals who work actively with or for organizations that purchase health care for employees or who lead community organizations such as business coalitions that advocate for purchasers. Applicants can be directors of coalitions who work wi

    Published: 2022-11-09 Type: Fellowship Deadline: November 15, 2022

  • Mastercard Foundation AfOx Scholarships for African Students(Fully-funded) 2023

    The University of Oxford and the Mastercard Foundation have an innovative and ambitious partnership under the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program and the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx). The partnership is set to provide 400 young African scholars with a fully-funded opportunity to pursue taught

    Published: 2022-11-09 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified

  • Goldman Sachs Women Growth Fellowship 2023

    This exciting opportunity will include an intensive programme of events held over three days, followed by a four-month mentoring programme, for 10,000 Women graduates from all over the world. The Growth Fellowship is a prestigious event for select graduates of the 10,000 Women programme. In 2023,

    Published: 2022-11-08 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified

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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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