We list 7 undergraduate Engineering Scholarships for Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 5 of them are fully funded. Most are held in China (3), Australia (1) and Romania (1). 5 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 engineering applicants can apply too.
Written from the 7 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 7 undergraduate engineering scholarships open to Nigerian students who are applying for a first degree abroad. Every award here is at bachelors level and in the field of engineering. They are not all the same kind of award, and they are not all in the same country.
Most of the awards on this list are government or university schemes that run once a year. Some are tied to a single institution; others are run across a group of universities in one city or one country. Read each award page before you decide where to send your documents, because the entry requirements differ from one to the next.
The countries represented on this list are:
China carries the largest share, with three separate schemes. The remaining four countries each carry one award. If you already have a country in mind, that narrows the list quickly. If you do not, the spread is wide enough to compare a European, an Asian, an Australian and a North American option side by side.
Of the 7 awards, 5 are labelled fully funded and 1 is labelled partially funded. The remaining award does not state its funding either way on the page, so nothing can be said about what it covers.
Where the award text names a benefit, the counts are:
These are the benefits the awards themselves name in writing. They are not a promise that every fully funded award pays all of them. A scheme can be described as fully funded and still list only tuition and accommodation. Check the individual award page for the exact package before you build a budget around it.
For 5 of the 7 awards, Nigerian students may apply. Of those five, 1 names Nigeria or the region in its eligibility text, and 4 carry no nationality restriction at all. For the remaining 2 awards, eligibility is not stated on the award page, so you will need to confirm it with the provider.
This matters more than it looks. An award with no nationality restriction is open to you on paper, but it also means you are competing against applicants from everywhere. An award that names Nigeria or the wider region is a smaller pool, and the eligibility wording is usually the first thing to read.
The pathway into this level is straightforward. You finished secondary school, and you hold one of WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE. That is the qualification this level of study builds on. Most of these awards ask for your senior secondary results and an admission offer, and each award page quotes its own entry requirement. Do not assume that a strong WAEC result alone carries an application; the admission offer is often the gate.
The requirements stated across the awards on this list are:
Two things are worth noting for a Nigerian applicant. First, only one award on this list states an English test requirement in its own text. That does not mean the others waive it. It means the award page does not say. Where an award does not state it, the university's own admission rules will decide, and those rules sit outside this list.
Second, the research proposal appears on an undergraduate list. That is unusual but not impossible, and it tells you to read the award text rather than assume the standard bachelors pattern.
Letters of recommendation are the most common ask here. Approach your referees early. A teacher or lecturer who has to write three of these in the same week will not write any of them well.
Three of the awards on this list carry a stated date, three are still open, and four are undated. Three of them recur annually.
The busiest months across the list are April, December and March, one award each. The three closing soonest are:
The China awards on this list do not follow that pattern. The Shanghai scheme runs between January and June of each year, and the Beijing scheme directs you to its details for the deadline. Treat those two as rolling or self-scheduled rather than fixed, and start the paperwork earlier than the date suggests.
The seven awards, with their providers:
The Kent award is the one labelled partially funded on this list. The Boston University award does not state its funding on the page, so nothing can be said about its value here.
Study durations vary across the schemes. The award texts quote bachelor's programmes of 4 to 5 years, 4 years, 3 to 4 years, and one scheme quoting undergraduate study of 3 to 6 years. Plan for the longer end when you are budgeting for living costs, because engineering degrees in many countries run longer than the standard arts or social science degree.
Open the three awards closing soonest first. The Boston University award closes 1 December, the Romania award closes 12 March, and the Australia Awards close 30 April. If any of those three fit your country preference and your results, they set your calendar for the next few months.
Then work through the rest. For the two China schemes, read the deadline instructions carefully, because neither follows a single fixed date. For the Kent award, read the funding section closely, since it is the one partially funded award here.
Before you send anything, confirm two things for each award: whether Nigerian applicants are eligible, and what the award actually pays for. Where the award page does not state either, contact the provider directly. Documents cost money, and courier fees from Nigeria are not refundable if an application was never eligible in the first place.
Finally, gather your WAEC or NECO results, your admission offer if you have one, and your referees' details before you start filling forms. The awards that ask for recommendation letters will move faster if your referees already know what you are applying for and by when.
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