We list 105 undergraduate Scholarships for Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 57 of them are fully funded. Most are held in Australia (17), the United States (17) and Canada (14). 61 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
Written from the 105 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 4 min read.
This page holds every award on ScholarshipsNigeria that fits one description: Undergraduate Scholarships for Nigerian Students. There are 105 of them right now. Each entry was read before it was listed, and the deadline, study level, what the award pays for and who may apply were taken from the scholarship's own published terms — not from a summary of it, and not from another listing site.
57 of the 105 are fully funded, meaning the award itself states that it carries the main cost of study rather than a discount on it, and 27 are partial — a fee reduction, a stipend on its own, or a fixed sum towards costs. That matters more than the number of entries: a list of two hundred partial fee waivers is worth less to a Nigerian applicant than a dozen awards that actually pay for the degree.
The awards are held in 22 countries, concentrated in Australia (17), the United States (17), Canada (14) and the United Kingdom (14). Where you study changes the cost of everything the scholarship does not cover, so the host country is worth deciding before the shortlist.
Scholarship pages use words like "full funding" loosely, so we counted what the awards on this list actually name in their own benefit sections. Across the 105 entries:
Read the counts as "this many awards say so in writing". An award that does not mention flights has not refused to pay for them — it simply has not promised them, and that is the difference you need to budget for. The cost a Nigerian applicant most often forgets is not tuition but the part before the scholarship starts: passport, transcripts, courier fees, an English test if one is required, and the visa itself.
61 of the 105 awards on this page are open to Nigerian applicants on their own stated terms. 4 of those name Nigeria, or a region that contains Nigeria, directly in the eligible-countries wording; the other 57 place no nationality restriction at all, which means a Nigerian passport is not a barrier to applying.
On qualifications, this list assumes one starting point: you finished secondary school. In Nigerian terms that is WAEC · NECO · NABTEB · SSCE, and it is the entry point for undergraduate (bachelors) study.
Scholarships for a first degree abroad. Most ask for your senior secondary results and an admission offer; each award page quotes its own entry requirement.
We also counted what the 105 awards ask applicants to produce, reading each award's own requirements:
26 of the 105 mention an English test, which leaves 79 that do not raise it on the award page. Several universities waive IELTS for Nigerian applicants because the degree was taught in English, but that waiver is a university decision rather than a scholarship one, so ask the admissions office in writing and keep the reply.
Start with the documents that take longest and do not depend on the award: a valid passport, official transcripts from your institution, and a reference your referee has actually agreed to write. Those three are what make a late-discovered deadline impossible to meet.
28 of the awards on this page have a closing date that has not passed, and they are listed soonest first. 28 carry a date that repeats each cycle — the month is reliable, the exact day is confirmed by the provider when the round opens. 77 publish no date at all, usually because applications are tied to the university admission round rather than to the scholarship.
The year is not evenly spread. On this list the heaviest months are May (7), January (5) and April (3). Work backwards from those months rather than forwards from today.
Closing next on this list:
By subject the strongest areas here are Business & Management (12), Arts & Humanities (10), Medicine & Health Sciences (10), Engineering (7), Agriculture (5) and Education (5). Awards open to any field are tagged to none of these, so a subject filter never hides the awards that would have accepted you anyway — those are shown separately on each subject page.
The providers appearing most often are Deakin University (2), American Colleges and Universities (2), Various Universities (2), University College London (UCL) (2) and Participating Australian Institutions (1). Where one institution runs several awards it is usually worth reading all of them together: they often share one application form and one deadline.
Stated duration, where an award gives one, runs mostly to 4 years (8 awards), 1 year (7 awards) and 3 years (2 awards).
Work down the list rather than across it. Open the three or four awards whose deadline you can still meet, read what each one pays for against what your year will actually cost, and check the eligibility line before anything else — a Nigerian applicant who fails one stated condition cannot be rescued by a strong statement of purpose.
Use the filters in the sidebar to narrow by level, host country, subject or funding, and set an alert for this list if the next round is months away: most of these awards open and close inside a four-week window, and the people who miss them are rarely the people who were unqualified.
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