We list 15 engineering Scholarships Open to Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 10 of them are fully funded. Most are held in Australia (3), China (3) and the United States (3). 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 15 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This collection gathers 15 engineering scholarships open to Nigerian students. Every award here is in the field of engineering, and every one of them is open to Nigerian applicants in some form. That second point matters more than it sounds, because engineering funding is often tied to nationality, residency or a home-country quota. Here, the eligibility facet has already done that filtering for you.
Ten of the 15 are fully funded. Three are partially funded. The remaining two do not label their funding either way, so treat those as awards whose value you will need to confirm on the award page itself. The spread of study levels is wide: 11 awards are open at PhD level, 10 at Masters, five at Bachelors, and there is one each at fellowship, postdoctoral and high school level. Several awards sit at more than one level, which is why those numbers add up to more than 15.
The destinations are concentrated but not narrow. Australia, China and the United States each host three of the awards. Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom each host one.
Providers range from individual universities to national schemes. Among them are Stanford University, the University of Tasmania, Boston University, the University of Groningen, Chalmers University of Technology, participating Australian institutions, a Canadian institution with a quota to host Vanier scholars, and university groupings in Shanghai and Beijing. Some of these are single-institution awards with one application; others are schemes where you must first secure admission before the funding question is even considered.
All 15 awards on this page are open to Nigerian students. That breaks down in a specific way: for two of the 15, Nigeria or the wider region is named directly in the eligibility text. For the other 13, there is no nationality restriction at all, so a Nigerian passport is not a barrier in itself. Those two figures together make up the 15, not separate lists on top of each other.
No award on this page leaves eligibility unstated, so you will not be guessing about whether you are allowed to apply. What you will still need to check, award by award, is the academic requirement: the degree class, the subject match within engineering, and whether the award expects you to already hold an admission offer.
Funding labels tell you part of the story. What the awards actually say they cover is more useful. Of the 15, four name tuition, four name living costs, three name travel, two name research or training costs, one names accommodation, one names health insurance, and one names a settling-in or arrival grant.
Read those as what the award states in writing, not as a promise that every cost on your budget is handled. A fully funded award that names tuition and living costs may still leave your visa fee, your transcript courier charges and your first month of setup to you. Before you build a budget around any award, open the award page and check which of these categories it names.
The requirements are consistent enough to plan around. Seven awards ask for letters of recommendation. Six ask for an English test score, either IELTS or TOEFL. Four ask for a research proposal. Three state a minimum degree class. Two require an admission offer first. One asks for work experience.
For a Nigerian applicant, the English test is often the first real cost. Six of these awards name it as a requirement, which means for those six you should budget for the test fee and a test date early, not after you have written your statement. If you are applying at PhD level, the research proposal is the document that carries the most weight, and four awards ask for it directly. Recommendation letters take time to gather when your referees are in Nigeria and you are applying from Lagos or Abuja, so start those requests before the deadline month, not during it.
Nine of the 15 awards carry a stated date. Nine are recurring, meaning the cycle returns each year, so a missed deadline is not always a lost cause. Six have no date listed, and for those you should check the award page for the current cycle.
The busiest months are October and December, with two deadlines each, followed by April with one. The awards closing soonest are:
Further out, the Australia Awards Scholarships 2027 (Fully Funded) close on 30 April and are open at undergraduate, Masters and PhD level.
Start with your level. If you are finishing a B.Sc or HND and looking for a Masters, the ten Masters-level awards are your pool, and the two December deadlines above are the nearest ones to work towards. If you already hold a Masters and are going for a PhD, the 11 PhD-level awards give you more room, and the Schlumberger fellowship closing 8 November is the closest.
Then check the two documents that slow Nigerian applicants down most. If an award asks for an English test score, book the test before you write anything else, because the score has to be in hand by the deadline. If it asks for recommendation letters, ask your referees now and give them a date you will collect. For the four awards that want a research proposal, draft it against the department you are targeting rather than in general terms.
Finally, read the funding label carefully. Ten awards are fully funded and three are partially funded, and the remaining two do not say. Where funding is partial or unstated, work out what you would be covering yourself before you commit to an application, so that a place you win is a place you can actually take up.
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