Find Ph.D scholarships for international students from Africa to study in South Africa 2026-2027.
The University of Pretoria Commonwealth Scholarship has made funding available for up to two doctoral scholarships specifically for students from Commonwealth countries (excluding South African citizens). The University of Pretoria, recognised as a leading research-intensive institution, i
Published: 2025-08-05 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: September 20, 2025
The Fulbright South African Research Scholar Program (SARSP) is an opportunity for South African university faculty or research institute professionals to conduct research in their field of expertise at a U.S. academic or research Institution for a period of 3 to 9 months. A research grant
Published: 2025-07-04 Type: PhD Study in: United States, South Africa Deadline: October 5, 2025
The ICGEB-SAWBP PhD Fellowship Scheme, in partnership with the South African Department of Science, Technology and Innovation will support South African women researchers intending to study towards a PhD degree, in Biotechnology at the Cape Town Component. The SAWBP prog
Published: 2025-05-26 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: June 17, 2025
The African Doctoral Academy (ADA) at Stellenbosch University is privileged to offer a limited number of candidates, at the start of their doctoral careers, the opportunity to attend research, publishing, scientific communication and career-related training courses at the ADA Hyb
Published: 2024-11-06 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: November 8, 2024
The Graduate School of Economic and Management Sciences (GEM) is currently accepting applications for its full-time, funded doctoral programme. Applications will be considered for the following two scholarship opportunities: GEM Elite Doctoral Scholarships: Full-time doctoral s
Published: 2024-08-12 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: August 15, 2024
The University of Pretoria is a research-intensive university. Hence, it is seeking candidates for doctoral studies who will make significant contributions to its research endeavours. As part of South Africa's contribution to the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, the University of Pr
Published: 2024-07-05 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: September 11, 2024
ICGEB offers competitive Postdoctoral Fellowships in Life Sciences to highly motivated scientists wishing to pursue postdoctoral research in a world-class scientific environment. The Fellowships comprise a very competitive package including stipend, health insurance and additional benefits. The most
Published: 2024-01-10 Type: PhD Study in: India, Italy, South Africa Deadline: March 31, 2024
The Graduate School of Economic and Management Sciences (GEM) is currently accepting applications for its full-time, funded doctoral programme. Applications will be considered for the following two scholarship opportunities: GEM Elite Doctoral Scholarships: Full-time doctoral s
Published: 2023-07-24 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: August 15, 2023
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University is pleased to announce a limited number of full-time scholarships for PhD studies commencing in 2024 The Graduate School coordinates the partly-structured, full-time doctoral scholarship programme and administers the doctoral scho
Published: 2023-07-13 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: August 1, 2023
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The African Mental Health Research Initiative (AMARI) is a mental health research capacity building programme. AMARI-II builds on the initial AMARI-I which ran from 2015 - 2022. AMARI-II is being implemented with funding support of the second phase of the Developing Excellence in Leadership, Trainin
Published: 2023-06-14 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: August 31, 2023
AERC wishes to announce the 2023/2024 Ph.D. scholarships for applicants from Francophone and Anglophone sub-Saharan African countries admitted into any of the following AERC Collaborative PhD Programme (CPP) in Economics degree-awarding universities: University of Cape Town, South Afri
Published: 2023-04-28 Type: PhD Study in: Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania Deadline: August 31, 2023
AfricaLics is part of the worldwide research network, The Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (Globelics). The purpose of the 7th AfricaLics Ph.D. Academy is to support the training of African Doctoral students engaged in research in the academic
Published: 2023-03-17 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: March 31, 2023
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is announcing a research chair, under the programme financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) entitled “German Research Chairs”, at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Muizenberg, South Africa. The res
Published: 2023-01-13 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: May 15, 2023
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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
The African Doctoral Academy (ADA) at Stellenbosch University is privileged to offer a limited number of candidates, at the start of their Doctoral careers, the opportunity to attend research, publishing, scientific communication and career-related training courses at the ADA Sum
Published: 2022-12-16 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: December 18, 2022
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The SARChI Chair in Higher Education and Human Development Research Programme (HEHD) at the University of the Free State invites applications from qualified, motivated and talented candidates for doctoral scholarships. In HEHD we conduct theoretical and empirical research into human development appl
Published: 2022-08-29 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: September 30, 2022
The Graduate School of Economic and Management Sciences' call for applications is open from the 13th of June to 1 August 2022 and will recruit for full-time PhD scholarship positions, funded by the Graduate School to a maximum of R138 000 per year for three years. T
Published: 2022-07-11 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: August 1, 2022
The Food Environment Research group (a collective from Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, School of Public Health and the DSI/NRF Center of Excellence in Food Security) at the University of the Western Cape under the leadership of Prof Rina Swart is seeking Post-doctoral Research Fellows t
Published: 2021-12-14 Type: PhD Study in: South Africa Deadline: January 10, 2022
