We list 5 undergraduate Agriculture Scholarships for Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 4 of them are fully funded. Most are held in China (3), Australia (1) and Romania (1). 3 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
These awards do not restrict the field of study, so agriculture applicants can apply too.
Written from the 5 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 5 undergraduate agriculture scholarships open to study at bachelor's level. Every award here is tagged to the field of Agriculture, and every one of them is listed at Bachelors level. The providers are a mix of city and regional government schemes in China, a national government scheme in Romania, and one agricultural college in Australia.
Four of the five are labelled fully funded. One is labelled partially funded. That is how the awards describe themselves in their own text, and it is the only funding split this page can give you. What a "fully funded" label actually covers varies from award to award, so read each page for the line items.
China accounts for 3 of the 5. Australia accounts for 1, and Romania accounts for 1. The providers named on this page are Shanghai Universities, Beijing Universities, Hubei Government, Romanian Universities and Marcus Oldham College.
If your interest is agriculture specifically, the concentration in China is worth noting. Three separate Chinese schemes sit on this list, which means three separate application routes, three sets of documents and potentially three different university choices inside the same country.
Two of the awards name tuition in their own text. One names accommodation. One names research or training costs. Those are the benefits the awards state in writing, and they are stated per award, not across the whole list.
Do not read the fully funded label as a promise of a monthly stipend, flights, or a book allowance. If an award page does not name a benefit, this page cannot tell you it exists. Where funding is not labelled either way, nothing is claimed here about what it covers.
The practical question for a Nigerian applicant is the gap. Tuition covered but accommodation not named means you are budgeting for rent. Accommodation named but tuition not named means the reverse. Work out your own gap per award before you spend money on a courier.
Three of the five awards are open to Nigerians. None of those three names Nigeria or a Nigerian region in its eligibility text; all three simply carry no nationality restriction. A further two awards do not state their eligibility on the award page at all.
That distinction matters. An award with no nationality restriction is not the same as an award that names Nigeria as eligible. It means the text does not exclude you. Confirmation still comes from the award's own page and, where relevant, from the university or ministry administering it.
For the two awards whose eligibility is not stated, there is nothing to report either way. Treat them as unconfirmed and check the award page directly.
Two of the awards ask for letters of recommendation. One asks for a research proposal. One asks you to have an admission offer first.
That last requirement changes your order of operations completely. If an award requires an admission offer before you apply for the money, then the university application is not a later step, it is the first step, and it comes with its own costs: transcripts, WAEC or NECO result verification, and courier fees to the institution. Budget for those before the scholarship deadline, not after.
The research proposal request is unusual at bachelor's level but it appears on this list, so read that award's page carefully if you are applying to it.
These are first-degree awards. The qualification that leads into them is your senior secondary result: WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE. Most awards at this level ask for your senior secondary results and an admission offer, and each award page quotes its own entry requirement.
Where an award requires an admission offer first, the sequence is: sit your secondary exams, get your result, apply to the university, receive the offer, then apply for the scholarship. Where an award does not require an offer first, you can run both applications in parallel.
English language testing is a common sticking point. Some institutions waive it for applicants whose secondary education was taught and examined in English. That is an institutional policy, not a scholarship policy, and it is not stated on this page. Ask the university directly.
Two awards carry a stated date. Two are still open. Three are undated on the award page. Two recur.
The two closing soonest are:
March and August are the busiest months on this list, with one deadline falling in each. The remaining awards either run on a recurring cycle or carry no fixed date on their pages. One of them, the Shanghai Government Scholarship, states its window as between January and June of each year.
Three of these five are open to Nigerian applicants on the face of their eligibility text. The other two do not state eligibility on the award page, so nothing is confirmed about them here.
Start with the two dated awards, because a fixed date forces a plan. The Romania award closes 12 March and the Marcus Oldham award closes 4 August. If you are reading this with months to spare, the Romania one is the nearer of the two.
Then work through the three Chinese schemes. They are all fully funded on their own labels, and they sit under different administering bodies, so the documents and the timelines will not be identical. Read each award page rather than assuming the three work the same way.
Before you send anything by courier, check two things on the award page: whether an admission offer is required first, and whether letters of recommendation are named. Two of the awards on this list ask for recommendation letters and one asks for an admission offer first. Both of those requirements add weeks to your timeline and money to your costs.
Finally, treat the eligibility line as the first thing you read. Three awards here carry no nationality restriction, which is a green light to apply, not a promise of a place. Two do not state eligibility at all, which means you need to confirm before you commit to spending on transcripts and postage.
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