We list 2 fellowship Scholarships for Nigerian Students in Switzerland, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 2 of them are fully funded.
Written from the 2 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 6 min read.
This page collects 2 fellowship scholarships in Switzerland that are open to Nigerian students. Both are labelled Fully Funded by the awards themselves. Both sit at fellowship level, and both are also tagged as master's-level study, which matters for how you read the eligibility rules: a fellowship in the Swiss system is often a funded place inside a master's programme rather than a separate research post.
Two is a small number. That is the honest starting point. A short list is not a weak list if the awards on it are the right ones for your profile, and the two entries here are both full funding, both in Switzerland, and both from institutions that carry weight in Europe. What follows explains what they pay for, who can apply, what the applications demand, and how the deadlines fall.
EPFL is the only provider named in the brief for this collection. The University of Geneva entry does not carry a provider field, so treat the award title itself as your reference point when you search for the official page.
Both awards are marked fully funded. Beyond that, the brief records that 1 of the two names accommodation in its own text. That is a written benefit, not a promise that every cost is met — read each award page line by line for what is included and what you are expected to cover yourself.
Neither award carries a stated value figure or a stated number of awards in the brief. Where an amount is not published, do not assume one. Budget for the costs that sit outside any scholarship: your transcript fees, courier charges, the English test if you need one, visa fees and the first weeks of arrival. Those are real naira costs and they land before any stipend does.
The two awards between them touch seven subject areas, one award each:
Engineering, computer science and the natural sciences are the traditional strengths of the Swiss federal institutes, and EPFL sits in that group. The presence of arts, humanities, business and social sciences on the list means this is not a science-only page. If your first degree is in a social science or a management discipline, there is an entry here that may fit.
This is the part most applicants get wrong, so read it slowly. For the two awards on this page, the brief records that 2 do not state an eligibility restriction on the award itself. That is different from saying Nigerians are named as eligible. It means the award text does not set out a nationality bar that we can point to.
Where an award does not print its eligibility rules, the rules usually live in the admission requirements of the institution running it. So your real check is the university's own master's admission page: your degree, your class, your subject background and your language evidence. A Second Class Upper or better from a Nigerian university is the common baseline for competitive Swiss master's admission, but confirm it on the institution's page rather than taking it from here.
One practical note on English tests. The brief records that 1 of the two awards asks for an IELTS or TOEFL score. Some Swiss institutions waive the English test where your previous degree was taught in English, which is the case for most Nigerian graduates. Whether a waiver applies to you is decided by the institution, not by this page. Ask before you pay for a test.
Alongside the English test requirement on one award, the brief records that 1 of the two asks for letters of recommendation. Plan for these early. A Nigerian lecturer who has taught you for three years will write a stronger letter than one you met once, and they will need your CV, your statement and a reminder of your project work before they can write anything useful.
Neither award publishes a stated value or a stated number of places, so you cannot work out your odds and you should not try. What you can control is the file: transcripts ordered from your university's exams and records office, a statement that explains why Switzerland and why this programme, and referees who are given enough time to respond.
The brief records 2 awards with undated deadlines and no awards with a fixed date, no recurring deadlines and no busiest months. In practice that means the timing information on this page is thin, and you should treat the individual award pages as the authority.
The EPFL entry carries a deadline line of March 31 or December 15 (annual), which is a recurring pattern rather than a single closing date. The University of Geneva entry says "see details". Neither is a date you can diarise today without checking the award page first.
Because there is no dated deadline in this collection, the sensible approach is to work backwards from the academic year you are targeting. Swiss master's applications commonly open many months before teaching begins, and documents from Nigerian universities take time to produce. Start the transcript and referee requests before you need them.
One of the awards states a duration of a 1.5-year master's programme or a 2-year master's programme, according to the programme you are admitted to. That is the shape of Swiss master's study on this list: a shorter, denser degree than the Nigerian two-year M.Sc., with coursework and a thesis compressed into it.
For a fellowship holder, that compression is the point. You are funded for a defined period, and the programme expects you to finish inside it.
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics recorded 110 Nigerian students in Switzerland in 2024, ranking the country 57th as a destination for Nigerian students. That is a small community. It means you are unlikely to arrive into an existing Nigerian network on campus, and it means the practical questions — housing, residence permits, opening a bank account, the cost of living in Lausanne or Geneva — are ones you will largely solve yourself in the first weeks.
It also means the competition for these particular awards is not a crowd of Nigerians. It is a global field, and the awards are few.
Two awards is a short list. Work through it properly rather than broadly, and treat every line on the award page as the final word over anything written here.
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*UNESCO Institute for Statistics, inbound internationally mobile students from Nigeria, 2024.
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