We list 57 fully Funded Undergraduate Scholarships for Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. Most are held in the United States (10), China (8) and Canada (7). 33 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
Written from the 57 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 4 min read.
This page collects 57 fully funded undergraduate scholarships open to study at bachelor's level. Every award here is tagged Fully Funded, and every one is tagged Bachelors, so the two filters describe the same 57 entries. If you are searching for a first degree abroad rather than a master's or a doctorate, this is the list to work from.
The wider site carries 43 master's awards, 26 PhD awards, 3 fellowships, 3 postdoctoral awards, 3 short courses and 2 high school awards. Those sit on their own pages. What follows is only the undergraduate set.
The United States leads with 10 awards, followed by China with 8 and Canada with 7. Italy and Russia each have 4, and New Zealand and the United Kingdom each have 3. Australia, France, Germany and Saudi Arabia have 2 each.
Single awards sit in Belgium, Hungary, Japan, Qatar, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. That spread matters if you are weighing a country you had not considered. A single award in Hungary or Singapore is still a full award.
Funding labels are only useful if you read what each award actually promises. Of these 57, 33 name tuition in their own text, 22 name living costs, and 19 name accommodation. Ten name health insurance, 7 name travel, 4 name research or training costs, and 1 names a settling-in or arrival grant.
Treat those as what the award states in writing, not as a promise that every cost you will face is handled. Read the individual page for the award you are considering and check the wording yourself before you build a budget around it.
Of the 57 awards, 33 are open to Nigerian applicants. Within that group, 3 name Nigeria or the region directly, and 30 carry no nationality restriction. For the remaining 24, the award page does not state eligibility either way, so you would need to confirm with the provider before spending money on an application.
That leaves a practical point. Most of the awards you can enter do not single out Nigeria; they simply do not exclude you. Your job is to show you meet the academic entry requirement, not to prove you belong to a particular country.
The requirements are stated unevenly, and the counts below show how many awards mention each one.
For a first degree, the qualification that leads in is your senior secondary result: WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE. Most awards at this level ask for those results and an admission offer. Each award page quotes its own entry requirement, so check the one you are applying to rather than working from a general rule.
Nineteen of the 57 carry a stated date, and all 19 of those are still open. Thirty-eight are undated on the page, and 19 are recurring, meaning the cycle returns each year. May is the busiest month with 5 deadlines, then January with 4 and April with 2.
The awards closing soonest are:
The Hungary Government Scholarship 2026-2027 also closes 15 January. If you are working to a January date, start your documents now rather than after the new year.
Business and Management and Medicine and Health Sciences lead with 6 awards each. Arts and Humanities and Engineering have 5 each, then Agriculture and Education with 4 each. Economics and Finance and Law have 3 each, Social Sciences has 2, and Computer Science and IT, Energy and Environment, and Natural Sciences have 1 each.
If your intended course sits in one of the smaller groups, the list is thin but not empty. One award in your field is still worth a full application.
Shortlist three or four awards rather than applying to everything. For each one, confirm two things on its page: whether a Nigerian applicant is eligible, and whether the funding covers what you will actually need. Then work backwards from the deadline. Recommendation letters and English test scores are the two requirements that appear most often, and both take time to arrange, so begin with those.
If your results are not yet complete, or you are still waiting on an admission offer, note that 4 awards ask for an admission offer first. Those will have to wait until the offer is in hand. The rest you can prepare now.
When you are ready to look beyond a first degree, the master's and PhD pages carry separate lists. For now, the 57 awards here are the ones built for an undergraduate start.
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