We list 4 undergraduate Scholarships for Nigerian Students in Russia, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 4 of them are fully funded.
Written from the 4 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 3 min read.
This page holds every award on ScholarshipsNigeria that fits one description: Undergraduate Scholarships for Nigerian Students in Russia. There are 4 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.
4 of the 4 are fully funded, meaning the award itself states that it carries the main cost of study rather than a discount on it. 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.
Russia is not an untested destination for Nigerians: 1,950 Nigerian students were enrolled there in 2023 according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, which makes it destination number 8 for students leaving Nigeria. A country with an established Nigerian student population usually means visa officers who have seen your documents before, and seniors you can ask.
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 4 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.
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 4 awards ask applicants to produce, reading each award's own requirements:
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.
The providers appearing most often are National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow and Russia) (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.
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.
Russia, with its globally recognized universities, strong academic traditions, and growing number of English-taught programs, is quickly becoming a top choice for Nigerian students seeking quality higher education abroad. The good news? There are several fully and partially funded scholarships available for international students — especially from Pakistan — covering everything from tuition fees to accommodation, and even monthly stipends.
In this blog post, we’ll explore the 10 best scholarships in Russia for international students in 2026, helping you make an informed decision for your future studies.
*UNESCO Institute for Statistics, inbound internationally mobile students from Nigeria, 2023.
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