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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 91)

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

  • PhD Scholarship 2022

    Tuition fees are not covered by the Eiffel Program. Educational institutions are expected to provide students the best financial support.. Students admitted to public educational institutions are, as French government scholarship holders, exempted from enrolment fees. The

    Published: 2022-10-07 Type: PhD Study in: France Deadline: January 10, 2023

  • Masters Scholarship 2022

    Tuition fees are not covered by the Eiffel Program. Educational institutions are expected to provide students the best financial support.. Students admitted to public educational institutions are, as French government scholarship holders, exempted from enrolment fees. Eiff

    Published: 2022-10-07 Type: Masters Study in: France Deadline: January 10, 2023

  • Maastricht University Holland-High Potential scholarship 2022

    The Maastricht University (UM) Holland-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 p

    Published: 2022-10-07 Type: Masters Deadline: January 1, 2023

  • Monash University Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship Programme 2023

    The GEMS programme aims to bring the best and brightest PhD students to Monash University Malaysia, where they can work with top-class research teams on some of the world’s core challenges. The GEMS programme offers 15 scholarships each year from 2022 to 2024, and scholarship recipients wil

    Published: 2022-10-06 Type: PhD Study in: Malaysia Deadline: December 31, 2022

  • World Bank ACECoR Masters and PhD Scholarships for African Students 2022

    The Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR) established under the World Bank Africa Centre of Excellence (ACE) for Development Impact Project and hosted by the Centre for Coastal Management, University of Ghana Cape Coast, Ghana, invites suitably qualified national, regional and i

    Published: 2022-10-06 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Ghana Deadline: November 15, 2022

  • Dataville Research LLC Development Research Fellowship 2022

    Our research tackles the complex and persistent challenges of poverty and development. We take a multidisciplinary approach and work with an international network of partners to develop solutions which we actively seek to see applied in development policy and practice. Our collaboration with rese

    Published: 2022-10-06 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 23, 2022

  • EJN East Africa Biodiversity Story Grants for East African Journalists 2022

    East Africa is a global biodiversity conservation priority, but systematic conservation planning is hampered by the absence of a comprehensive understanding of the most prevalent biodiversity threats in the region. There are known data gaps in understanding the top threats to

    Published: 2022-10-05 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 15, 2022

  • WomHub Africa Innovation Fellowship for Female African Innovators 2022

    WomEng Africa Innovation Fellowship, powered by WomEng and the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation is a nine-month leadership and business development opportunity for female African innovators with an early stage engineering innovation or startup. The Africa

    Published: 2022-10-05 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 15, 2022

  • IARC Mid-Career Visiting Scientist Award 2022

    The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is the specialized cancer Agency of the World Health Organization (WHO). Based in Lyon, France, IARC is inter-disciplinary, bringing together skills in epidemiology, laboratory sciences and biostatistics to identify the causes of cancer so that

    Published: 2022-10-05 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 10, 2022

  • IPRA Foundation Dorothy Marchus Senesh Fellowship in Peace and Development Studies for Developing Countries 2023

    The International Peace Research Association Foundation invites applications for the Dorothy Marchus Senesh Fellowship in Peace and Development Studies for Women from countries in the Global South. Dorothy Senesh was a long-time activist for international peace and justice. Her husband, Lawrence Sen

    Published: 2022-10-05 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: January 15, 2023

  • DAAD Tropical Forestry Masters Scholarships at TU Dresden (TUD) for Developing Countries 2023

    Applications are invited for DAAD Tropical Forestry Scholarships. The course is taught in English at Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), one of the 11 German Universities of Excellence. Applicants will benefit from the international background of their research and lecturing scientists who

    Published: 2022-10-05 Type: Masters Study in: Germany Deadline: October 30, 2022

  • DAAD Masters of Science in International Health Scholarships for Developing Countries 2023

    Applications for the Masters of Science in International Health Programme  at the University of Heidelberg and Charité Berlin with scholarship funding from the DAAD EPOS programme are open. Heidelberg Institute of Public Health  The Master of Scie

    Published: 2022-10-05 Type: Masters Deadline: October 15, 2022

  • IAU Astronomy in Africa Scholarships 2022

    The International Astronomical Union (IAU) will host its 32nd General Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2024 (GA2024). This is the first time in the 100+ year history of the IAU that the General Assembly will be held in Africa, which provides a prime opportunity to showcase the cutting-ed

    Published: 2022-10-04 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa Deadline: October 7, 2022

  • Imperial College London Africa Regional Scholarship 2022

    Imperial College Business School is proud to be a global organisation with students from all over the world. To encourage this further, we are offering scholarships to African students who we believe would contribute to the Imperial community.

    Published: 2022-10-03 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: February 1, 2023

  • FMSH Postdoctoral Fellowship for East African Researchers 2022

    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.

    Published: 2022-09-30 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 9, 2022

  • Michigan State University (MSU) Nnamdi Azikiwe International African Student Fellowship 2022

    The African Studies Center is pleased to announce the Nnamdi Azikiwe International African Student Fellowship! 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, wh

    Published: 2022-09-30 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 30, 2022

  • I Tatti/DHI Rom Joint Fellowship for African Studies 2023-2024

    With this fellowship, I Tatti and the DHI Rom seek to stimulate and support increased scholarship on cultural exchange with and within the African continent during the period c. 1250-1750 by creating and promoting opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration, particularly between scholars from

    Published: 2022-09-29 Type: Fellowship Study in: Italy Deadline: November 15, 2022

  • AROCSA Innocent Chukwuma African NGO Leadership Transition Fellowship Program (ICLTFP) 2023

    The Association for Research on Civil Society in Africa (AROCSA) in partnership with the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at the Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa, is pleased to announce this call for applications to the Innocent Chukwuma A

    Published: 2022-09-29 Type: Fellowship Deadline: November 11, 2022

  • DAAD Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degrees / Cotutelle for International Students 2022

    This programme offers you the opportunity to do a bi-national doctoral degree at your home university and at a university in Germany. There are two possible options: Option a) Doctorate with bi-national supervision: Your doctoral project is supervised by a university teacher both at your home

    Published: 2022-09-27 Type: PhD Deadline: October 14, 2022

  • Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Post-Graduate Foreign Scholarships Programme 2022-2023

    As part of NDDC’s Human Resource Development Initiatives, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is embarking on Foreign Post Graduate Scholarship Programme to equip Niger Deltans with relevant training and skills for effective participation in the local content prog

    Published: 2022-09-26 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Nigeria Deadline: October 30, 2022

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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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