We list 2 undergraduate Scholarships for Nigerian Students in France, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 2 of them are fully funded. 1 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants.
Written from the 2 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 2 undergraduate scholarships in France that are open to Nigerian students. Both are labelled Fully Funded by the bodies that run them, and both are offered at Bachelors level. The two awards come from Sciences Po and Sciences Po University, and each of them also carries a Master's track alongside the undergraduate one.
That is a small list, and it is worth saying so plainly at the start. Two awards is not a wide field, and neither of them is a Nigerian-government or Nigerian-university scheme. What the page gives you is a short, specific set of programmes in France that a Nigerian school leaver can apply to for a first degree, with the funding already attached.
Both awards on this page describe themselves as fully funded. That is the label in their own text, not a promise about every line of your budget.
One of the two names tuition among the costs it covers. The other does not spell out its benefit lines in the same way, so treat the phrase "fully funded" as the starting point for your own reading of each award page rather than the end of it. When you open an award, look for the section that lists what is paid and what is not: tuition, a monthly stipend, insurance, travel, and accommodation are usually itemised separately, and the difference between them matters when you are converting euros into naira.
Neither award states a cash value on this page, and neither states how many awards it makes. You will need to read each award page for that.
Of the two awards, 1 is open to Nigerian applicants. Within that figure, 1 carries no nationality restriction at all, and 1 does not state its eligibility on the award itself. Those two descriptions cover the same single award, not two separate ones.
For the remaining award, the position is simply not recorded here. That does not mean you are excluded, and it does not mean you are included. It means the award page is where you find out.
This is the part of the process where Nigerian applicants lose time. Read the eligibility paragraph before you read anything else. If an award names specific countries or regions, and Nigeria is not among them, no amount of polishing your WAEC results will change the outcome.
You come to this list having finished secondary school, with WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE results in hand. That is the entry point for a Bachelors award abroad.
Most undergraduate scholarships ask for two things together: your senior secondary results and an admission offer from the university. The offer usually has to exist before the scholarship can be confirmed, which means the university application and the scholarship application run on separate clocks. Miss the university deadline and the scholarship deadline becomes irrelevant.
Each award page quotes its own entry requirement, and French institutions may ask for more than your WAEC or NECO grades. Read the requirement line on the award itself rather than assuming your results are enough.
Both are hosted at Sciences Po, and both run an undergraduate strand and a Master's strand. If you are applying for the first degree, make sure you are reading the undergraduate instructions and not the Master's ones — the two strands sit on the same page and the deadlines differ.
Neither award on this page carries a single fixed closing date in the form this page records. Both are listed as undated, which means the deadline information sits inside the award text rather than on the listing.
What the award text does show is a split between the two levels. For the Emile Boutmy Scholarship, the Master's deadline is December 1 and the undergraduate deadline is March 4. For the Chalhoub Scholarship, the Master's deadline is December 1.
Read that pattern carefully if you are applying as an undergraduate. The Master's date is the one that appears first and the one most often quoted, but it is not your date. Your date is the undergraduate one, and it falls months later in the cycle.
Because no award here shows a date that is currently open, the practical step is to open each award page and confirm the cycle you are applying into before you build a timeline around it.
This page does not record a set of stated requirements for either award, so there is no honest list to give you of documents, word counts or referee numbers. Anything specific would be guesswork.
What can be said is what a French undergraduate application of this kind normally turns on, and what you should therefore have ready to assemble: your secondary school results, a passport or birth certificate, transcripts or result slips, and a personal statement. Budget for the costs that fall on you — result verification, courier fees, and any certified translations — because those are paid out of pocket and they add up before you ever reach a visa stage.
Do not send original documents by post unless an award page explicitly asks for them. Certified copies are usually what is wanted, and originals are difficult to replace from Nigeria.
France hosts 772 Nigerian students, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, for the year 2024. That places Nigeria 22nd among the countries sending students to France.
Set against the size of Nigeria's student population, that is a modest presence, and the two awards on this page help explain why. France is not a crowded destination for Nigerian undergraduates, and the scholarship route into it is narrow. That is not a reason to skip it. It is a reason to treat the two awards here as serious, individual applications rather than as one of many options on a long list.
Open both award pages and read the eligibility line first. If an award does not name Nigeria and does not say it is open to all nationalities, find that out before you spend anything on documents.
Then confirm which level you are applying into. You are applying as an undergraduate, so the December 1 Master's date is not yours; look for the undergraduate deadline, which for the Emile Boutmy Scholarship is March 4.
Then work backwards. A university admission offer is normally needed before the scholarship can be confirmed, so the university application comes first. Give yourself enough weeks to request results verification, pay for courier, and gather certified copies without rushing.
Two awards is a short list. Apply to both if you are eligible, and keep a second country in view so that one rejection does not end your cycle.
*UNESCO Institute for Statistics, inbound internationally mobile students from Nigeria, 2024.
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