We list 10 undergraduate Medicine & Health Sciences Scholarships for Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 6 of them are fully funded. Most are held in China (3), the United Kingdom (3) and the United States (2). 8 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 medicine & health sciences applicants can apply too.
Written from the 10 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 10 undergraduate scholarships in medicine and health sciences that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here is at bachelor's level, and every one sits in the medicine and health sciences field. The list is not limited to one country or one funding model, so you will find options in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia on the same page.
Six of the ten are labelled fully funded by the awarding body. Two are labelled partially funded. The remaining two do not state their funding position either way, so treat those as awards whose value you must confirm on the individual page before you invest time in the application.
If you are weighing this against other subjects, the same site carries business and management awards and engineering awards, but medicine and health sciences is the largest single field collection at this level.
The ten awards are spread across five countries. China accounts for three, the United Kingdom three, the United States two, with one each in Australia and Romania.
That spread matters for how you plan. A Chinese government scholarship and a United States presidential scholarship do not ask for the same paperwork, and they do not close in the same month. Reading the country pattern first helps you decide which two or three applications are realistic in one cycle rather than scattering effort across all ten.
For 8 of the 10 awards, Nigerian students may apply. That figure breaks down in a way worth understanding properly, because the two parts are not separate groups stacked on top of each other.
Of those eight, one names Nigeria or the region directly in its eligibility text. The other seven carry no nationality restriction at all, which means your Nigerian citizenship is not a barrier — the competition is simply open to international applicants generally. For the remaining two awards on the page, eligibility is not stated on the award itself, so you would need to check the awarding institution's own terms before assuming you qualify.
The entry point for this level is your senior secondary result. The qualifications that lead into a bachelor's degree abroad are WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE. Most of these awards expect your secondary school results plus an admission offer from the institution, and each award page quotes its own entry requirement. Where an award asks for an admission offer first, the scholarship application is effectively the second step, not the first — so your university application timeline drives everything else.
Funding statements on this page are specific. Of the ten awards, here is what the award text actually names:
Read those as what the awards say in writing, not as a guarantee of what lands in your account. A tuition-only award still leaves you to cover accommodation, feeding, books and the costs of getting there. For a Nigerian student paying for transcripts and courier fees out of pocket before you even submit, the gap between "fully funded" and "tuition covered" is the single most important line to check on each page.
Two awards on the list do not state their funding position at all. Nothing on this page tells you what those cover.
The requirements the awards state in their own text are as follows:
Two points follow from that. First, the English test requirement is not universal across this list, so do not assume you must book IELTS before you have read the specific award page. Some awards may accept your WAEC or NECO English result as evidence, but only the award page can confirm that. Second, where an admission offer is required first, you cannot treat the scholarship deadline as your only date — the university's own admission deadline sits in front of it.
Recommendation letters take time in Nigeria. Lecturers and school principals are often travelling or handling large queues of requests, so approach your referees weeks before the deadline, not days.
Four awards on this page carry a stated date. Four are still open at the time of writing. Six are undated, and four recur annually rather than closing once.
The busiest months across the list are April, December and March, with one award closing in each.
The awards closing soonest are:
Two Chinese awards on this list run on a different rhythm. The Shanghai Government Scholarship (SGS) Fully Funded 2026 - 2027 accepts applications between January and June of each year, and the Beijing Government Scholarship 2026-2027 (Fully Funded) refers you to its own details for the deadline. Recurring windows are useful if you miss a fixed date this cycle, but they still require you to prepare documents in advance.
Duration is stated on some of these awards, and it varies. Two awards quote four years. One quotes a bachelor's programme of four to five years. One quotes four years or longer depending on the major. One quotes three to four years.
For medicine in particular, the length of the programme affects everything downstream: how long your funding must stretch, how long you are away from home, and when you would return. Before you commit to a five-year programme on a partially funded award, work out what the unfunded years would cost you.
Start with the four awards that have dated deadlines, because those are the ones you can plan around. Open each page and check three things in this order: whether the award names Nigeria or has no nationality restriction, what it states it covers, and whether it requires an admission offer before you can apply.
Then prepare the documents that take longest in Nigeria — your WAEC or NECO results, transcripts, and referee requests. If an award states an English test requirement, budget for it early rather than late.
Finally, treat the six undated and four recurring awards as a second wave. They give you room to apply again in the next cycle if this one does not work out, but only if your documents are already in order when the window opens.
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