We list 8 masters Medicine & Health Sciences Scholarships Open to Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 7 of them are fully funded. Most are held in China (3), Australia (2) and the Netherlands (1). 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 8 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 8 scholarships for Masters study in Medicine & Health Sciences that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here is at Masters level, and every one of the 8 is one a Nigerian applicant may apply for.
The awards are spread across five countries. China carries the largest share with 3, followed by Australia with 2. The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States each carry 1.
On funding, 7 of the 8 are fully funded and 1 is partially funded. That split matters when you are weighing up whether an award will cover the whole of your time abroad or only part of it.
The eligibility picture on this list is unusually clean. Of the 8 awards, 1 names Nigeria or the region in its own eligibility text, and the remaining 7 carry no nationality restriction at all. In other words, the other 7 are open on their stated terms to applicants from any country, Nigeria included.
None of the 8 leaves eligibility unstated, so you are not guessing about whether you qualify on nationality grounds. What you still have to check, award by award, is the academic requirement — the degree class, the subject background and whether the university accepts your particular qualification.
Funding labels tell you the headline. The detail is in what each award says it covers. Across this list:
Read those counts as what the awards state in writing, not as a promise that every fully funded award covers every line. A fully funded award that names tuition and living costs is telling you what it will pay; it is not telling you that flights, visa fees or your transcript and courier bills are included. Budget for the Nigerian-side costs yourself: transcripts, couriering documents, English tests where required, and the application fees some universities charge.
The requirements stated on these awards give a fair picture of the paperwork ahead:
Four awards asking for references means you should approach your referees early. Give them your CV, your statement of purpose and the deadline in writing, and give them weeks rather than days. If you are applying to more than one award on this list, expect to ask the same people more than once.
The award that requires an admission offer first has a sequencing consequence: you cannot complete that application until the university has admitted you. That pushes your real deadline back by however long the admission decision takes, so start the university application before you start the scholarship one.
You come into this list holding a first degree or HND. The qualifications that lead into Masters study are B.Sc, B.A, B.Eng, LLB, MBBS and HND.
These are taught and research masters. Where an award states a minimum class of degree, the phrase to watch is "upper second" — on a Nigerian transcript that corresponds to Second Class Upper (2:1). If your transcript reads 2:1, you meet that bar. If it reads Second Class Lower, check the individual award rather than assuming you are out; the requirement is stated per award, and only 1 award on this list states a minimum class at all.
Whether an HND is accepted for a particular award is decided by each university, not by this page. Where you hold an HND, treat that as the first question to put to the admissions office before you spend money on transcripts.
The country spread shapes the kind of application you write. China's 3 awards come through government scholarship routes — the Shanghai Government Scholarship and the Beijing Government Scholarship among them — and those tend to run through a defined annual window rather than a single fixed date.
Australia's 2 awards include a national programme open to applicants from participating countries and a university-level award. The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States each contribute 1 award, and those are single-institution awards with their own deadlines.
Four of the 8 awards carry a stated date. Four are still open, and four run on a recurring cycle. Four carry no date on the award itself.
The busiest months across this list are October with 2 deadlines, then April and December with 1 each.
Four awards close soonest. In order:
Two of the Chinese awards on this list run on windows rather than single dates. The Shanghai Government Scholarship (SGS) Fully Funded 2026 - 2027 accepts between January and June of each year. The Beijing Government Scholarship 2026-2027 (Fully Funded) states its deadline in its own details, so read the award page rather than relying on a summary.
Work backwards from the deadline that is nearest to you, not the one that sounds most attractive.
Eight awards, five countries, and one application cycle that will not wait for a transcript you have not ordered. Start with the documents.
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