We list 13 masters Engineering Scholarships for Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 11 of them are fully funded. Most are held in Australia (3), China (3) and the Netherlands (1). 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 engineering applicants can apply too.
Written from the 13 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This collection holds 13 masters scholarships in engineering that are open to Nigerian students. Every entry is a masters-level award, and every entry sits in the engineering field. They are not all the same kind of thing: some are university scholarships tied to a single institution, some are government schemes, and one is a research scholarship attached to a named programme.
Of the 13, 11 are labelled fully funded and 2 are labelled partially funded. That split matters when you are budgeting. A fully funded award normally means the tuition question is settled before you travel; a partial award usually means you are still looking for the rest somewhere else.
If you want to widen the search, the same set of providers also appears against PhD awards and bachelors awards, but this page stays on the masters engineering route.
The 13 awards are spread across nine countries. Australia and China carry the most weight, with three awards each. The remaining seven countries hold one award each: the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.
That spread is useful if you already have a preference. If your plan is Australia, you have three routes to compare against each other. If it is China, you have three as well. For the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, the UAE, the UK and the US, you are working with a single option per country, so the decision is less about comparison and more about whether that one award fits your profile.
Named providers on the list include Stanford University, Monash University, the University of Groningen, Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Tasmania, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Beijing Universities, Shanghai Universities and the group of participating Australian institutions behind the Australia Awards.
This is the question worth answering before you spend money on transcripts. Of the 13 awards, 10 are open to Nigerian applicants. Within that group, 2 name Nigeria or the region in their own eligibility text, and 8 carry no nationality restriction at all. Those two figures together make up the 10 — they are not separate pools stacked on top of each other.
The remaining 3 do not state their eligibility on the award page. That is not a refusal. It means the award text does not settle the question, and you would need to check the provider's own requirements before treating it as open or closed.
The qualification you bring in is a first degree or an HND. In practice that means B.Sc, B.A, B.Eng, LLB, MBBS or HND. For taught and research masters in engineering, the awards that do state a class of degree usually ask for an upper second — which corresponds to Second Class Upper (2:1) on a Nigerian transcript. Whether an HND is accepted is decided by each university, not by this page, so treat that as a per-award question.
Funding labels tell you the headline. The detail sits in what each award says it covers. Across the 13:
Read those as what the awards state in writing, not as a floor under your costs. An award that names tuition and living costs but says nothing about flights leaves the flight to you. An award that names accommodation is telling you something specific about how it expects you to live while you study. Where an award does not name a benefit, do not assume it is included.
The requirements are where most Nigerian applicants lose time, because several of them depend on other people and other offices. Across the 13 awards:
Two of these deserve attention early. First, the awards that require an admission offer before you can apply for funding put the university application ahead of the scholarship application, which moves your whole timeline forward by months. Second, the three that ask for a research proposal are research-track awards; a proposal is a different document from a statement of purpose and takes real drafting time.
On English tests, note that only 4 of the 13 state a test requirement in their own text. That does not mean the other nine waive it — it means the award page does not say. Waivers are granted by universities, and usually rest on whether your previous degree was taught in English. Check with the institution, not with this page.
Seven of the 13 awards carry a stated date, and all seven of those are still open. Six do not carry a date on the award page. Seven of the 13 recur, meaning the cycle repeats and a missed deadline is not necessarily final.
October is the busiest month, with three deadlines falling in it. April and December carry one each. The awards closing soonest are:
The Australia Awards Scholarships 2027 (Fully Funded) close on 30 April and sit outside the October cluster, which makes them a reasonable fallback if the October round does not go your way.
Start with the eligibility line, not the funding line. Ten of the 13 are open to Nigerian applicants; three do not say. Sort the list into those two groups first, then work only on the group you can actually enter.
Then work backwards from the deadline. If an award needs an admission offer first, your university application is the real deadline, and it lands well before the scholarship date. If it needs letters of recommendation, approach your referees now — a Nigerian academic writing a reference for an overseas application needs lead time, and so does the transcript office. If it needs a research proposal, block out writing time rather than assuming you can produce one in a weekend.
Finally, match the award to what it actually covers. Four name tuition, four name living costs, three name accommodation, three name research or training costs, two name travel and one names health insurance. Build your own budget from what the award says, and treat everything it does not mention as a cost you are carrying.
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