We list 4 fully Funded Scholarships for Nigerian Students in Singapore, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 3 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
United States
26
United Kingdom
25
China
12
Australia
11
Canada
10
Italy
9
Japan
8
Switzerland
8
Belgium
7
Germany
7
United Arab Emirates
7
Russia
6
Thailand
5
Brazil
4
Denmark
4
Saudi Arabia
4
Singapore
France
3
Netherlands
3
New Zealand
3
Norway
3
Sweden
3
Turkey
3
Austria
2
Qatar
2
Spain
2
Written from the 4 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 4 fully funded scholarships in Singapore that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here is labelled fully funded by the body offering it, and every one of the four is based in Singapore. The list is short because Singapore's funded awards are concentrated in a small number of institutions, and because most of them are research degrees rather than taught courses.
The four awards come from four providers: A*STAR, working with NTU, NUS and SUTD; the NUS Graduate School; the National University of Singapore; and Nanyang Technological University. Two of the four are research scholarships at NUS, one is the A*STAR graduate award, and one is an undergraduate award at NTU.
The list leans heavily towards research. Three of the four awards are at PhD level, and two are at Masters level. One is at Bachelors level. Those counts overlap, because a single award can lead to more than one degree — the NUS Research Scholarship, for example, is listed at both Master's by research and PhD.
If you are applying with a B.Sc or HND and no Master's, the undergraduate award at NTU is the one route on this page that does not assume postgraduate study. If you already hold a Master's, the three PhD-level awards are where your application belongs.
All four awards state that they cover tuition, and all four state that they cover living costs. That combination is what "fully funded" means in practice on this page.
Read those as what the award text says, not as a promise of what will land in your account. Where an award names a monthly stipend, the figure and the currency are stated on the individual award page, and you should check them there rather than assume a number. Two of the NUS research awards are listed with stipend details in Singapore dollars, and the PhD figure on one of them rises after the Qualifying Examination. The exact wording sits on the award page.
Three of the four awards are open to Nigerian applicants. Of those three, none names Nigeria or the African region in its eligibility text, and all three carry no nationality restriction at all. That is the cleaner situation: you are not competing for a country quota, you are being assessed against the same criteria as every other international applicant.
For the fourth award, eligibility is not stated on the award itself. That does not mean Nigerians are excluded, and it does not mean they are included — it means the page does not say, and you would need to confirm with the provider before spending money on a transcript courier.
None of the four awards is restricted to Singaporean citizens or permanent residents on the face of the listing.
The requirements below are counted from what the awards state in their own text. They are the documents that will decide whether your file is complete.
Letters of recommendation are the one item every single award asks for, and they are also the item Nigerian applicants most often leave late. Approach your referees early, give them your CV, your transcript and a short note on what you intend to study, and give them a date that is at least two weeks before the actual deadline. A referee who is asked in the same week as the deadline will often decline.
Two awards state an English test requirement. If you are applying from a Nigerian university where your degree was taught and examined in English, check the individual award page for how it treats that — the listing says an English test score is stated, and the award text is where any waiver wording would sit. Do not assume a waiver exists; confirm it in writing.
Only one award asks for a research proposal, which fits the profile of the list: the PhD awards are the ones that expect you to arrive with a topic, while the undergraduate award does not.
Two of the four awards carry a stated date, and two are still open at the time of writing. Two are recurring, and two are undated — meaning the listing does not give a closing date and you would need to check with the provider. The busiest months across the list are June and January, with one award closing in each.
The two closing soonest are:
The NTU award is the January one, and it is the undergraduate route on this list. The SINGA award is the June one, run by A*STAR with NTU, NUS and SUTD, and it is a PhD award.
The two NUS Research Scholarships run to an August intake and a January intake, with deadlines that vary by intake, and one of the two is listed with a deadline of "see details". If NUS is your target, treat the intake calendar as your real deadline and work backwards from it.
The durations stated across the list are four years for one award, up to four years for a PhD or two years for a Master's by research with renewal, and two years for a Master's against four years for a PhD on another. The pattern is consistent: a PhD is funded for about four years, a research Master's for about two, and renewal depends on progress.
That matters for planning. A funded PhD in Singapore is a four-year commitment, not a one-year course, and the renewal conditions are the thing to read carefully before you accept.
Start with the two dated awards, because they have a clock on them. The NTU undergraduate award closes 15 January and the SINGA PhD award closes 1 June. Open each award page, read the eligibility section in full, and note whether the award states an English test requirement and a minimum degree class.
Then decide which of the two NUS research awards applies to you. They sit at different points in the NUS calendar and one of them is listed with intake-based deadlines rather than a single date. If you are aiming at either, you need to be in contact with a potential supervisor well before the intake deadline, because a research application without a supervisor behind it rarely moves.
Finally, budget your document costs before you start. Transcripts from a Nigerian university and courier fees are paid by you, and they are not refunded if an application is unsuccessful. Order transcripts once, order enough copies for every award you intend to apply to, and keep scanned versions of everything so you are not paying for a second courier because a referee asked for a form you had already sent.
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