We list 4 masters Scholarships for Nigerian Students in Brazil, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 4 of them are fully funded.
United Kingdom
30
Australia
20
China
11
United States
11
Canada
8
Sweden
8
Belgium
7
Italy
7
Japan
7
Switzerland
7
United Arab Emirates
7
Netherlands
6
Russia
6
Germany
5
New Zealand
5
Saudi Arabia
5
Thailand
5
Brazil
Ireland
4
Turkey
4
Denmark
3
France
3
Singapore
3
Austria
2
Norway
2
Qatar
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 masters scholarships in Brazil open to Nigerian students. All four are labelled Fully Funded by the awards themselves. They are masters-level awards, though three of the same programmes also run PhD strands and two extend to postdoctoral study. If you are looking for a taught or research masters in Brazil and you hold a Nigerian first degree, this is the shortlist.
Brazil is not a common destination for Nigerian postgraduates. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics recorded 187 Nigerian students in Brazil in 2024, placing Nigeria 45th among sending countries. That is a small community, and it shapes how you should approach these applications: fewer alumni to ask, fewer forums, and more of the work falling on you.
Three of the four are federal funding agencies or national research bodies. The fourth, GCUB-Mob, works through a university network rather than a single agency. That difference matters when you are choosing where to send documents.
All four awards state that they cover tuition, and all four state that they cover living costs. Two of the four also name travel in their own text, and two name research or training costs. Read those counts as what the awards say in writing, not as a promise that every naira of your relocation is handled. Where an award lists a stipend, check whether it is paid monthly, whether it starts on enrolment or on arrival, and whether you need to fund your first weeks in Brazil yourself.
The award texts describe monthly stipend figures in Brazilian reais for masters and PhD levels, with postdoctoral amounts varying by programme and research area. Confirm the current figure with the awarding body before you build a budget around it, because stipend values are revised and the figure printed on a listing page can lag behind the official call.
The route in is a first degree or HND. The qualifications that lead into this level are B.Sc, B.A, B.Eng, LLB, MBBS and HND. These are taught and research masters, and awards usually state a minimum class of degree. An upper second 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 question to put directly to the department you are targeting.
On nationality, the picture is uneven and worth understanding before you spend money on transcripts. None of the four awards names Nigeria or the West African region in its eligibility text, and none of the four states that it carries no nationality restriction. For all four, the eligibility position is simply not stated on the award as listed here. That is not a refusal and it is not an approval. It means you must open the official call for each award and read the eligibility clause yourself before you commit to courier fees.
The requirements are consistent across the set, and they are the two items that take the longest to assemble:
A research proposal is not a statement of purpose. It needs a defined question, a sense of the existing literature, a method, and a reason the work belongs in a Brazilian department specifically. If you are applying to more than one of these four, do not send the same proposal to all of them. The proposal should name a supervisor or a research group, and that means writing to potential supervisors in Brazil before the call closes. Expect slow replies and academic calendars that do not match yours.
Recommendation letters should come from people who can speak to your research capacity, not only to your character. Give your referees the proposal, your transcript and a clear deadline at least a month ahead. Nigerian referees are often writing several of these at once; a specific brief gets a specific letter.
None of the four awards on this page carries a fixed date in the listing, none is marked as currently open, and none is described as recurring on a set cycle. All four are listed as undated, with the deadline shown as "see details". What the individual award texts do say is that timing varies: PEC-PG calls generally open mid-year, CAPES announces annually on its portal, CNPq announces annually on its website, and GCUB-Mob is usually announced between April and June.
Treat those as the windows to watch rather than dates to diary. Because there is no single closing date across the set, the practical approach is to check each awarding body's own page on a monthly rhythm and to have your proposal and referee letters ready before a call opens, not after.
Four awards is a small list, and the absence of stated deadlines means the work sits with you. The compensation is that these are fully funded masters places in a country where very few Nigerian students apply, which is exactly the kind of field where a well-prepared application stands out.
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*UNESCO Institute for Statistics, inbound internationally mobile students from Nigeria, 2024.
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