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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026

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

  • Apply Now: Zeribe Nwosu Online Learning Scholarship Program 2025

    It is not uncommon for women to experience a career break (e.g., for family reasons). However, some women who experience career break find it hard to return to their career paths especially whereby the break extends for a longer period. This problem is particularly common in low income countries.&nb

    Published: 2025-04-18 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: May 15, 2025

  • University of Birmingham Alumni Scholarship for Postgraduate Students 2025

    Our Alumni Scholarship offers up to 300 scholarships for our returning undergraduate alumni via a £2,000 tuition fee waiver for their Masters studies in the 2025/26 academic year.  As a Birmingham graduate, we want to support you in taking the next steps in your journey as you continue

    Published: 2025-04-17 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: July 31, 2025

  • Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships for Master’s Degree 2025

    The Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships (QECS)  offer a unique opportunity to study a two-year Master’s degree in a low or middle-income Commonwealth country. Aimed at students who are committed to creating change in their communities, the scholarships are a life-changing opportunit

    Published: 2025-04-17 Type: Masters Deadline: June 2, 2025

  • Apply Now: Internet Society 2025 Peering Fellowship Program

    The Peering Fellowship supports individuals making Internet access affordable, reliable, and resilient by improving local Internet interconnection infrastructure and advocating for an enabling policy environment that supports a thriving Internet ecosystem. This engaging six-month prog

    Published: 2025-04-17 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria, Philippines Deadline: May 2, 2025

  • Call for Applications: Africa CDC 2025 Epidemiology Track Fellowship Programme

    Africa CDC launched the Africa Epidemic Services (AES) fellowship. The AES has three tracks: Epidemiology, Laboratory Leadership, and Public Health Informatics (PHI). The mission of the AES-PHI is to equip African professionals with public health informatics competencies for the digital age, so they

    Published: 2025-04-16 Type: Fellowship Deadline: May 21, 2025

  • University of Oxford Crankstart Graduate Scholarship 2025

    The Crankstart Scholarships provide a programme of enhanced support for UK residents from lower-income households to undertake undergraduate study at Oxford. This is possible thanks to a generous donation by Sir Michael Moritz and Ms Harriet Heyman. The Crankstart Graduate Scholarships continue this

    Published: 2025-04-16 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified

  • TWAS-ICCBS 2025 Postgraduate Fellowship Programme

    The International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) — comprising the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry and the Dr. Panjwani Centre for Molecular and Drug Research in Karachi, Pakistan — and TWAS offer fellowships to young scientists from developing countries (other

    Published: 2025-04-15 Type: PhD Study in: Pakistan Deadline: August 14, 2025

  • Call for Applications: ARUA Early-Career Research Fellowship Program 2025

    The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Mastercard Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is launching this Early-Career Research Fellowship program. The initiative will fund up to forty-two (42) early-career researchers to conduct globally co

    Published: 2025-04-15 Type: Fellowship Deadline: May 15, 2025

  • MFWA 2025 Next Generation Investigative Journalism Fellowship

    Are you a Ghanaian journalist eager to uncover how the country is losing money through illicit means? The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has an opportunity for you to make a difference. This three-month, fully funded residential program will equip 20 selected journalists w

    Published: 2025-04-15 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana Deadline: April 30, 2025

  • TWAS-NCP 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme

    Applications are now open for the TWAS-NCP Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme 2025. For young scientists from developing countries (other than Pakistan) who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in physical sciences in departments and laboratories of the National Centre for Physics (NCP) in Islamabad.

    Published: 2025-04-15 Type: PhD Study in: Pakistan Deadline: July 31, 2025

  • NNPC & NAE PSC Postgraduate Scholarship Award Scheme 2025-2026

    Nigerian Agip Exploration (NAE) Limited, on behalf of the NNPC/NAE PSC, is committed to the training and development of manpower as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme. In pursuance of this, NAE invites applications from suitably qualified and interested Nigerian graduates

    Published: 2025-04-15 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Nigeria Deadline: April 27, 2025

  • Afara Initiative 2025 The Bridge Fellowship Program

    This is Nigeria’s most prestigious leadership fellowship developing leaders of tomorrow. This one-year active free fellowship kicks off with a residential bootcamp between July and August followed by year long leadership training through a mix of self-paced learning, intera

    Published: 2025-04-15 Type: Fellowship Deadline: June 27, 2025

  • Nigeria Health Watch Science-Policy Communication Fellowship 2025

    Nigeria Health Watch invites early to mid-career professionals, researchers, and advocates to apply for the Science-Policy Communication Fellowship, a hands-on programme designed to equip participants with the skills needed to translate scientific research into impactful, policy-relevant commun

    Published: 2025-04-14 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: April 24, 2025

  • Aston University Ferguson Scholarship 2025 for African Students

    We are excited to announce  THREE Ferguson scholarships for September 2025. These scholarships are supported by the Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust who are dedicated to improving educational opportunities for students who would not otherwise be able to consider studying

    Published: 2025-04-14 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: June 30, 2025

  • Tsinghua University Masters Scholarship for International Students 2025

    A one-year, fully-funded master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, designed to build a global community of future leaders who will serve to deepen understanding between China and the rest of the world. Every year, a new class is selected to represent the world’s next generat

    Published: 2025-04-14 Type: Masters Study in: China Deadline: September 10, 2025

  • Flemish Ministry of Education and Training Master Mind Scholarship 2025

    The Flemish Ministry of Education and Training awards scholarships for master's programmes in Flanders and Brussels to outstanding students from around the world.  Master Mind Scholarship holders only pay an administrative enrolment fee. The grant is paid in instalments and covers accommoda

    Published: 2025-04-14 Type: Masters Study in: Belgium Deadline: April 27, 2025

  • Apply Now: Media Sentinel Fellowships in Southern Africa 2025

    Code for Africa (CfA) is offering four Media Sentinel Fellowships to frontline grassroots researchers with expertise in social media listening and analysis and with a good knowledge of social media cross-platform coordination and messaging on platforms such as Facebook, Telegram, What

    Published: 2025-04-11 Type: Fellowship Deadline: May 7, 2025

  • 2025 Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships for Developing Countries

    The Commonwealth Distance Learning programme is one of three Master’s programmes offered by the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission. The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (CSC) provides the UK government scholarship scheme led by international development objectives. It operate

    Published: 2025-04-11 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: May 20, 2025

  • University of Edinburgh Surgery Online Global Scholarships for African Students 2025

    The University of Edinburgh offers several Edinburgh Surgery Online Global Scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year. These scholarships support students enrolling in the MSc Surgical Sciences (Online Learning) program. Each scholarship covers full tuition fees and includes a contribution towards

    Published: 2025-04-11 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: May 5, 2025

  • 2025 NNPC/TotalEnergies MIT-Empowering the Teachers Program

    The MIT-ETT Program is a prestigious, teaching-focused fellowship offered by the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) and proudly sponsored by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, TotalEnergies Upstream Nigeria Limited (TUPNI), and Partners. This semester-long fellowship is desi

    Published: 2025-04-11 Type: Fellowship Deadline: May 20, 2025

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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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