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Postgraduate Scholarships for African students 2025-2026 (Page 30)

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: Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program 2025

    Based in Radcliffe Yard—a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University—fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community. A fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project. With access to Harvard’s unparallele

    Published: 2024-06-19 Type: Fellowship Deadline: October 3, 2024

  • University of Edinburgh 2024 Business School Data Analytics (Online) Scholarship Program for All Nationality

    The University of Edinburgh Business School is offering up to 10 scholarships covering part of the fees for Masters students commencing study in September 2024 on the Masters in Data and Decision Analytics (Online).

    Published: 2024-06-18 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: July 1, 2024

  • Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Scholarship Programe for African Students 2024

    The Scholarship Programme Offers High School Entrepreneurial Scholarships. Our programme aims to produce a confident scholar with entrepreneurial thinking, unlocked potential, leadership qualities, a desire to create value, the ability to solve problems, an aspiration and intention to

    Published: 2024-06-18 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Canada Deadline: September 16, 2024

  • Michael Taiwo 2024 Scholarship Program for African Students

    We serve bright but indigent students in developing countries who are seeking post baccalaureate studies. The award typically goes to recent college graduates. We award GRE/GMAT/TOEFL/IELTS scholarships and cover up to four school application fees. This averages about $1,000 per student. Coming u

    Published: 2024-06-17 Type: Postgraduate Value: $1,000 Deadline: June 29, 2024

  • WMD Hurford Youth Fellowship Program for Youths Worldwide 2024

    The Hurford Youth Fellowship Program seeks to build the leadership skills and harness the potential of young democracy activists from around the world. Through the Program, young activists spend three months at the World Movement’s Secretariat, during which they expand their global connections

    Published: 2024-06-14 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: July 31, 2024

  • University of Auckland Business Masters Scholarship for International Students 2024

    The Scholarship was established in 2013 and is funded by the University of Auckland Business School. The main purpose of the Scholarship is to support students to gain the skills and knowledge required to launch a business career by completing a Master of Management or Master of Professional Account

    Published: 2024-06-14 Type: Masters Study in: New Zealand Value: $16,000 Deadline: July 4, 2024

  • Humangle Technology and Civic Impact Fellowship for Journalists 2024

    HumAngle Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the HumAngle Technology and Civic Impact Fellowship. With the aim of providing cutting-edge technology and innovation training to members of the civic society and other actors in the space, the Fellowship will help selected profes

    Published: 2024-06-14 Type: Fellowship Study in: Nigeria Deadline: July 12, 2024

  • University of Kent 2024 Future Student Scholarship for Nigerian Students

    Are you a Nigerian passport holder, or live in Nigeria, and are starting a full time taught undergraduate or postgraduate programme at one of our UK campuses in 2024? You could qualify for our new automatic Kent Future Student Scholarship, worth £5000. This scholarship is for students begin

    Published: 2024-06-13 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: July 31, 2024

  • StartHub Africa 2024 Youth 4 Policy (Y4P) Innovation Fellowship

    The Youth 4 Policy (Y4P) Innovation Fellowship is designed to nurture young and emerging policymakers keen on transforming Uganda’s startup ecosystem. We’re seeking highly passionate and qualified individuals to conduct in-depth research and produce valuable, high- quality policy papers

    Published: 2024-06-13 Type: Fellowship Study in: Uganda Deadline: June 19, 2024

  • Canon Collins RMTF Scholarships for Postgraduate Study in South Africa 2024

    Canon Collins Trust in partnership with Ros Moger and Terry Furlong group invite applications for the postgraduate study in South Africa 2025. Ros and Terry were inspirational London educationalists. Since 2001 friends and family have raised funds in their memory to award scholarships in their name.

    Published: 2024-06-12 Type: Postgraduate Study in: South Africa Value: R20,000 to R100,000 Deadline: July 22, 2024

  • Canon Collins Trust 2024 Sol Plaatje Scholarships for Postgraduate Students

    Canon Collins Trust in partnership with Sol Plaatje Educational Project invite applications for the postgraduate study in South Africa 2025. We will provide funding for up to a maximum of two years for Masters and three years for PhD. Continued funding depends upon satisfactory progress and academic

    Published: 2024-06-12 Type: Postgraduate Study in: South Africa Value: R20,000 to R100,000 Deadline: July 22, 2024

  • Call for Applications: SSACAB Scholarships for African Students 2024

    The Sub-Saharan African Consortium for Advanced Biostatistics (SSACAB) is a consortium of six African and two northern partner institutions, and nine collaborating institutions with the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg as the Lead Institution. SSACAB II has received funding through the

    Published: 2024-06-11 Type: Masters Deadline: June 30, 2024

  • YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders 2025

    The U.S. Department of State and IREX are seeking academic, professional, and regional experts to read and score applications for the 2025 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.  Over the first nine years of the Fellowship, the program received nearly 434,000 applications from

    Published: 2024-06-11 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: September 1, 2024

  • Google DeepMind Scholarship for International Students 2024

    ITU Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Applied Research Center (ITU AI) and Google DeepMind are excited to announce Google DeepMind Scholarships for the Fall 2024-2025 Term. The scholarships will be offered to female graduate students at ITU specializing in artificial intelligence.

    Published: 2024-06-11 Type: Masters Study in: Turkey Deadline: June 14, 2024

  • University of Adelaide Global Citizens Scholarship for International Students 2024

    Scholarship recipients will receive a 15% or 30% reduction toward international tuition fees when commencing at the University of Adelaide in 2024.  This scholarship is based on academic merit and eligibility is determined by the merit achieved in the qualification which constitutes as the b

    Published: 2024-06-10 Type: Masters Deadline: Not Specified

  • Apply Now: ASCL 2024 Visiting Fellowship Programme

    The ASCL has an active visiting fellowship programme. Selected fellows will be able to make use of our excellent library, collaborate and network with colleagues,  and participate in our regular seminars.

    Published: 2024-06-07 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified

  • Call for Applications: GREEN-STEM Intra-Africa Scholarships for African Women 2024

    GREEN-STEM scholarships will empower up to 92 young talents, students and staff to experience an intra-Africa mobility in the partner institution from short to long term: FIRST CALL IS OPEN NOW TO WOMEN FOR FULL PROGRAMS IN ONE OF THE GREEN-STEM PARTNER UNIVERSITIES SCHOLARSHIPS are only avail

    Published: 2024-06-07 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: December 1, 2024

  • Stanford University Knight Hennessy Scholars Program 2024

    Knight-Hennessy scholars develop deep domain expertise in their Stanford graduate program, and build on this domain expertise through exposure to a wide range of disciplines and cultures within the Knight-Hennessy Scholars (KHS) community. Scholars participate in the King Global Leadership Program (

    Published: 2024-06-07 Type: Masters Study in: United States Deadline: October 9, 2024

  • BackPack Foundation Excellence Scholarship for International Students 2024

    Through the BackPack-Excellence Scholarship for Women, the Swiss foundation intends to help women to obtain the leadership skills they need to advance in their careers. The scholarship provides a transformational experience to talented and driven women who may have believed that an MBA program wa

    Published: 2024-06-06 Type: Masters Deadline: July 1, 2024

  • ASCL 2024 Africa Thesis Award for African Researchers

    Are you interested in Africa and is your master’s thesis on a related subject? If so, the African Studies Centre Leiden is offering you the chance to win € 500,-. Moreover, your thesis will be published in the ASCL’s African Studies Collection.   The award aim

    Published: 2024-06-06 Type: Masters Deadline: August 31, 2024

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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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