We list 13 fully Funded Medicine & Health Sciences 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 Australia (3), China (3) and the United States (2). 10 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
These awards do not restrict the field of study, so medicine & health sciences applicants can apply too.
Written from the 13 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 6 min read.
This page collects 13 fully funded scholarships in Medicine & Health Sciences that are open to Nigerian students. Every award on the list is labelled fully funded by the body offering it, so you are not sifting through partial fee waivers or token stipends. The list is built for people who intend to train, practise or research in medicine, nursing, public health, pharmacy, biomedical science or a related health field, and who need the money question settled before they can plan anything else.
Funding is the filter, not the field alone. That matters because health courses are among the most expensive to self-fund, and a Nigerian applicant paying for transcripts, courier fees and English tests out of pocket cannot also carry tuition in dollars or euros. Each entry below tells you what the award says it pays for, what it asks you to submit, and when it closes.
The list is weighted towards postgraduate research. 11 of the 13 awards are open at PhD level and 10 at master's level, while 6 accept bachelor's applicants. Several awards appear at more than one level, which is why those numbers add up to more than 13.
If you already hold a B.Sc, an HND or an M.Sc and you are aiming at a research degree, you are looking at the largest part of this list. If you are coming straight from WAEC or NECO and want a first degree in medicine or a health science, the six bachelor's-level awards are your starting point, and they are worth reading in full before you rule anything out on distance alone.
Eight countries appear across the 13 awards. Australia and China carry the most entries, with 3 each, followed by the United States with 2. The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Singapore and Thailand each account for 1.
That spread is useful if you are weighing cost of living, language of instruction or how quickly a student visa route tends to move. It also means you are not limited to one destination or one application cycle. A Nigerian applicant who misses an October deadline in one country may still have a March or April deadline open elsewhere on this same list.
These are the benefits the awards name in their own published text. Read them as what each award states, not as a promise that every item is covered in every case.
The pattern is clear enough. Tuition and living costs are the two most commonly stated benefits, and they are the two that decide whether a Nigerian student can actually take up a place. Travel and accommodation appear less often, so check each award individually before you assume your flight is covered. Research or training costs matter particularly for lab-based and clinical programmes, where consumables and bench fees can quietly outstrip tuition. Only a small number mention health insurance or an arrival grant, so budget for your first weeks separately unless the award you are applying to says otherwise.
For 10 of the 13 awards, the eligibility text does not shut Nigerian applicants out. Within that group of 10, 1 names Nigeria or the West African region directly, and 9 state no nationality restriction at all. For the remaining 3 awards, the eligibility position is not stated on the award page itself, so you would need to confirm it with the provider before spending money on an application.
That is a strong position for a Nigerian applicant. It means the majority of this list is not closed to you on the basis of passport, and in most cases the competition is about your academic record, your research fit and the quality of your documents rather than your country of origin. Where an award names Nigeria or the region explicitly, treat that as a signal that the selection committee expects and welcomes applications from here.
These are the requirements the awards state in writing, and the counts tell you how common each one is across the 13.
Two things follow from this. First, an English test is not universal here. Five awards ask for IELTS or TOEFL, which means the other eight do not state that requirement, and some may accept a waiver where your degree was taught in English. Confirm that in writing with the provider rather than assuming either way, because a test fee and a test date are both real costs. Second, letters of recommendation appear just as often as test scores. Approach your referees early, give them your CV, your transcript and a short note on what you are applying for, and expect to follow up more than once. Where a research proposal is required, the award is judging your ability to frame a question, not the length of your document.
Seven of the 13 awards carry a stated date, and all seven of those are still open at the time of writing. Six are undated, and seven run on a recurring cycle, so a deadline you missed this year will come round again. October is the busiest month, with 3 awards closing, followed by April and June with 1 each.
The awards closing soonest are:
Note the shape of the calendar. Two awards close within October, then the list stretches out to December, March, April and June. If you are applying for the 2027 cycle, the October pair is the immediate work. If you are planning further ahead, the Romania and Australia Awards dates give you room to build a stronger file, sit an English test if you need one, and gather your transcripts without rushing the registry.
Start with the two October deadlines if you intend to apply this cycle. Read each award page in full, because the eligibility wording and the document list differ from one award to the next, and this page only summarises what the awards state.
Then work backwards from the deadline rather than forwards from today. Nigerian transcript requests and courier delivery take time, and referees need notice. If an award requires an admission offer before you can apply, that step comes first and it has its own timeline, so begin the university application before you begin the scholarship application. If an award asks for IELTS or TOEFL, book the test date early enough that the result reaches the provider before the deadline, not after it.
Finally, treat the undated awards as live rather than closed. Six of the 13 do not carry a stated date, and seven recur, so an award you cannot apply for today may be exactly the one you are ready for in the next cycle. Read the full list, shortlist two or three that match your level and your field, and give each one the time its document list actually demands.
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