We list 8 undergraduate Arts & Humanities Scholarships Open to 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), the United States (2) and Australia (1). Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
These awards do not restrict the field of study, so arts & humanities applicants can apply too.
Written from the 8 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 6 min read.
This page collects 8 undergraduate scholarships in arts and humanities that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here is at bachelors level, every one sits in the arts and humanities field, and every one is open to Nigerian applicants. The list is built for a student who has finished secondary school with WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE results and is now looking for a first degree abroad rather than a master's or a PhD.
That combination is narrower than it sounds. Arts and humanities awards are less common than engineering or medicine awards at undergraduate level, and many international scholarships at this level are tied to a particular country or region. Here, none of the eight restricts by nationality or region: all 8 are open on the terms stated on the award itself. That is worth noting, because it means your WAEC or NECO result and your admission offer carry more weight than your passport.
The eight awards come from six providers across five countries. China appears most often with 3 awards, followed by the United States with 2, then Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom with 1 each.
The remaining awards on the page follow the same pattern: a named university or government scheme, a stated country, and an entry route that begins with your secondary school results. Read each award page for its own terms rather than assuming the six above are typical.
Of the 8 awards, 4 are labelled fully funded. The other 4 do not state their funding level either way, so treat those as unknown until you open the award page and read what it says.
Where the awards name a specific benefit in their own text, the picture is thin and specific: 1 names tuition, and 1 names research or training costs. That is not a description of the whole list. It is simply what those particular awards put in writing. For the rest, the funding label on the award page is the only reliable guide, and you should read it before you spend money on a transcript or a courier.
Four years is the most common stated duration, appearing on 2 awards. One award states 1 year. One describes a bachelor's degree programme of 4 to 5 years with a master's programme alongside it, and one states 4 years or longer depending on the major. If you are budgeting for a first degree, plan around the longer figure and check the award page for what happens after the first year.
Yes, on the nationality question. All 8 awards on this page are open to Nigerian students. None of the 8 names Nigeria or a region as a restriction, and none leaves eligibility unstated. In other words, the awards here do not shut you out on the basis of where you are from.
What they do ask for is documentation. Of the 8, 3 state that you need an admission offer first. That single requirement shapes your whole timeline: you cannot apply for the scholarship before you have applied to, and been accepted by, the university. Two awards state an English test score, meaning IELTS or TOEFL. One asks for a research proposal, and one asks for letters of recommendation.
Those counts are what the awards say in writing, not a guarantee of what every stage will demand. An award that does not mention an English test may still expect one at admission stage. Check the university's own entry requirement as well as the scholarship's.
Your entry qualification is your senior secondary result: WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE. That is the document the admissions office will assess first, so order your transcript or result verification early. In Nigeria, that usually means a visit to your school or examination body, a fee, and a wait measured in weeks rather than days. Courier costs add up if you are sending documents to more than one country.
Three of the eight awards want an admission offer before you apply for the money. That means your sequence is: choose the university, complete its undergraduate application, receive the offer, then submit the scholarship application. Starting the scholarship first wastes effort.
Two awards want an English test score. Book IELTS or TOEFL early, because test dates fill up and results take time to reach the institution. If an award does not mention a test, do not assume a waiver applies; ask the admissions office directly and keep the reply.
One award asks for a research proposal and one for letters of recommendation. For a bachelors application, a research proposal is unusual, so read that award page carefully to see what it expects from a first-degree applicant. For recommendation letters, approach teachers or principals who know your work, give them your result slip and a short summary of what you are applying for, and give them at least three weeks.
Of the 8 awards, 2 carry a specific date, 2 are still open, and 6 are undated. Two run on a recurring cycle. The busiest months named on this page are December and June, with 1 award falling in each.
The two closing soonest are:
Others follow their own rhythm. The University of Queensland award runs August to November, for the UQ Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship. The Shanghai Government Scholarship runs between January and June of each year. The Berea College award lists November 01, 2025, January 31, 2026 and March 31 as dates. The Beijing Government Scholarship directs you to its details page for the deadline. Six awards on this page are undated, which usually means the deadline is set by the university's admission cycle rather than by the scholarship itself. In that case, the admission deadline is your real deadline.
Arts and humanities is one of the larger fields on the site at 8 awards, level with the field itself and ahead of Business & Management at 7, Medicine & Health Sciences at 6, Education at 4 and Engineering at 4. Agriculture, Economics & Finance, Law, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences each sit at 3, while Computer Science & IT and Energy & Environment each have 1.
At bachelors level specifically, all 8 awards on this page are undergraduate. The same collection also carries 5 awards open at masters level and 3 at PhD level, so if you are weighing a first degree against a later one, the page gives you a sense of where the volume sits.
Start with the two dated awards, because they set your calendar. The Boston University award closes 1 December, which is 54 days away, and it is the tightest deadline on the page. The Stirling award closes 30 June, which gives you more room but still requires an admission offer and possibly an English test before then.
Then work through the undated awards. For each one, find the university's undergraduate admission deadline and treat that as your scholarship deadline. Order your WAEC or NECO verification and any transcripts now, before you have chosen a university, because those documents take the longest to arrive. If an award asks for an English test, book it. If it asks for an admission offer first, apply to the university first.
Read each award page in full before you commit money to a courier. The funding level, the duration and the entry requirement are stated there, and four awards on this page do not state their funding level at all, so the award page is the only place that will tell you.
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