If you want to take your Ph.D program but you need financial support, below is a list of available Ph.D scholarships for African students 2025-2026. These Ph.D funding are for African students round the world.
The University of British Columbia (UBC) in association with Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies is offering the Killam Doctoral Scholarship to top doctoral candidates. Killam Doctoral Scholarships are the most prestigious awards available to graduate studen
Published: 2024-09-04 Type: PhD Study in: Canada Value: $40,000 Deadline: September 13, 2024
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The Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at the Wits Business School (University of the Witwatersrand), with the support of the Mastercard Foundation invites applications for Doctoral Fellowship on the Non-Profit Sector and its Contribution to African Economies proj
Published: 2024-08-30 Type: PhD Deadline: September 16, 2024
Audiology program within College of Nursing and Health Sciences is looking for a candidate to fill a PhD position to investigate listening in noise in children with hearing loss. Chronic hearing loss in children has serious consequences on language, and social development. While early intervention p
Published: 2024-08-26 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Deadline: August 30, 2024
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The Partnership for skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET) is an African-led initiative that aims to close the skills gap in the applied sciences, engineering and technology (ASET) necessary for socio-economic transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The Reg
Published: 2024-08-21 Type: PhD Deadline: September 16, 2024
This is the twenty-third year that NVIDIA has invited PhD students to submit their research projects for consideration. Recipients are selected based on their academic achievements, professor nomination, and area of research. We have found this program to be a great way to support academia in its pu
Published: 2024-08-13 Type: PhD Value: $60,000 Deadline: September 13, 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
ACU Industry PhD Scholarships support ACU PhD candidates to undertake a research project in collaboration with an industry partner. By working with industry, candidates can apply their high-level research skills to help solve real-world problems.
Published: 2024-08-12 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Deadline: Not Specified
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The prestigious OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World is now accepting applications. This award recognizes and supports women who have made notable contributions to science and are researching inclusive health. It specifically aims to honor early-c
Published: 2024-07-31 Type: PhD Value: $5,000 Deadline: September 16, 2024
AGNES-BAYER Science Foundation Research Grant 2024. This grant is funded by the BAYER Foundation with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Federal Republic of Germany. The Grant is for Junior Researchers (PhD students) and aims to strengthen the scientific capacity of you
Published: 2024-07-29 Type: PhD Deadline: August 30, 2024
ETH4D provides grants for mentoring doctoral candidates from low- and lower-middle-income countries. The mentorship is a one-year appointment and comprises the following components: Mentorship from one ETH professor, senior scientist or postdoc over a period of one year of the mentee’s d
Published: 2024-07-23 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: October 15, 2024
The Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) is a collaboration among the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Singapore University of Technology and Design (
Published: 2024-07-22 Type: PhD Study in: Singapore Deadline: December 1, 2024
Not-for-profit charities AusHealth and Curecell are committed to translating cutting-edge research into real-world, commercial outcomes. The awards – intended to help with living costs – will be made to students currently enrolled in a PhD, whose research projects have real potential for
Published: 2024-07-09 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Deadline: July 31, 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
The Government of Canada launched the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program in 2008 to strengthen Canada's ability to attract and retain world-class doctoral students and establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning. Vanier Scholars demonst
Published: 2024-07-04 Type: PhD Study in: Canada Value: $50,000 Deadline: October 30, 2024
The Getty Scholars Program supports innovative research about art, conceived in the broadest terms, and its histories, by providing a locus for international scholars to forge collaborations across disciplines and professional practices, while also developing new audiences for their work. During the
Published: 2024-07-03 Type: PhD Deadline: October 1, 2024
The Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund was established in 2012, with generous support from The ALBORADA Trust. The Fund supports pairs of researchers (post-doctoral level and above) from the University of Cambridge (or an affiliated institution such as the Wellcome Trust San
Published: 2024-06-28 Type: PhD Deadline: September 12, 2024
The Adam Smith Business School offers a prestigious combined MRes/PhD training scheme in Economics. It starts with the 2 years MRes programme. Candidates who complete the MRes at a sufficiently high level will be given priority for admission into the 3-4 years PhD stage. The University of Glasgow
Published: 2024-06-28 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: July 1, 2024
The West African Centre for Sustainable Rural Transformation (WAC-SRT) at Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) in Wa, Ghana, is pleased to announce applications for the 2024/2025 academic year. Under the prestigious DAAD Scholarship program, schol
Published: 2024-06-26 Type: PhD Deadline: July 15, 2024
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The Kochi University of Technology (KUT) Special Scholarship Program (SSP) on research projects in the field of Engineering for International Doctoral applicants, Japan 2024/2025. The Special Scholarship Program (SSP) was established in 2004 in order to support the advanced research of the u
Published: 2024-06-26 Type: PhD Study in: Japan Deadline: September 13, 2024
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) invites applications for a PhD scholarship as part of the CLAIMS to Energy Citizenship project, funded by DANIDA (2024-2028). This call is specifically for the PhD that will align with WP1 (see above). The PhD will be co-supervised by Prof Waltorp and Dr C
Published: 2024-06-26 Type: PhD Deadline: July 19, 2024
