We list 7 masters Scholarships for Nigerian Students in Switzerland, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 7 of them are fully funded. 5 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
United Kingdom
30
Australia
20
China
11
United States
11
Canada
8
Sweden
8
Belgium
7
Italy
7
Japan
7
Switzerland
United Arab Emirates
7
Netherlands
6
Russia
6
Germany
5
New Zealand
5
Saudi Arabia
5
Thailand
5
Brazil
4
Ireland
4
Turkey
4
Denmark
3
France
3
Singapore
3
Austria
2
Norway
2
Qatar
2
Written from the 7 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 7 masters scholarships in Switzerland open to Nigerian students. Every one of the 7 is labelled fully funded by the award itself. That is the short version. The longer version matters more, because "fully funded" is a phrase each provider defines for itself, and the seven awards here do not all mean the same thing by it.
Switzerland is not a large market for Nigerian postgraduates. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics put the number of Nigerian students in the country at 110 in 2024, ranking it 57th as a destination. That figure is worth sitting with. It tells you the cohort is small, the competition is not the same crowd you meet on a UK or Canadian application portal, and the people who do get in tend to have prepared carefully and early.
The providers on this list are a mix of federal and institutional funders. One award comes from the Swiss Government working through Swiss universities. The rest sit with individual institutions: ETH Zurich, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Lausanne, IMD and Geneva Academy.
That split shapes how you apply. A government award may route you through a single national process. An institutional award is tied to admission at that institution — you are usually applying to the university and the funding in the same breath, and a rejection on one side ends the other.
Of the 7 awards, 3 name tuition in their own text, 2 name accommodation, 1 names living costs, 1 names travel and 1 names health insurance. These are counts of what the awards say in writing, not a promise that every award covers every line. Read each award page for its own list.
None of the awards on this page states a cash value or a number of awards in the brief. Where an award does not spell out a benefit, assume nothing about it and check the provider's own terms before you build a budget around it.
The 7 awards spread across nine subject areas, which means most fields appear once. Business & Management is the exception with 2.
If your field is not on that list, this page is unlikely to have a match for you, and you should look at the wider collection rather than force a fit.
For 5 of the 7 awards, a Nigerian applicant may apply. Of those 5, none names Nigeria or the region as a restricted nationality, and all 5 carry no nationality restriction at all. The remaining 2 do not state eligibility on the award page itself.
Read that carefully. It does not mean the other 2 are closed to Nigerians. It means the award page does not say either way, and you would need to confirm with the provider.
On qualifications: you would be applying with a first degree or HND — B.Sc, B.A, B.Eng, LLB, MBBS or 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 ask before you spend money on a transcript courier.
The requirements the awards state in their own text break down like this:
Four of seven asking for an English test is the practical bottleneck for most Nigerian applicants. Book the test early — seats fill, results take time to reach Switzerland, and a test score is the kind of document you cannot rush at the last minute. The same applies to recommendation letters: your referees are busy people, and four awards here will want them.
Only one award asks for work experience and only one for a research proposal, so the research-heavy route is not the default on this page.
Two awards carry a stated date, 2 are still open, and 5 are undated on the page. Two run on a recurring cycle. November is the busiest month, with 2 deadlines falling in it.
The two closing soonest are worth naming:
The rest of the list runs on its own rhythm. The EPFL Excellence Fellowships 2027 Switzerland | Fully Funded closes on 31 March or 15 December, annually. The IMD MBA Scholarships 2026–2027 Switzerland run throughout 2026 and are available until allocated — which in practice means the earlier you apply, the better your chances of finding funding still on the table.
Two awards, the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships 2026–2027 (Fully Funded) and the University of Geneva Excellence Masters Fellowships 2026, do not show a fixed date on this page. Treat those as "check the provider directly" rather than "no deadline".
Start with the two November deadlines if either fits your field. The UNIL award closes first, so if you are applying, your documents need to be moving now. ETH Zurich gives you slightly more room, but not much.
Then work through the rest of the list against three questions. Does the award name your field? Does it state eligibility you can meet? And can you produce the documents it asks for — English test, references, and in one case a research proposal — before the date it names?
If you are applying with an HND, confirm acceptance with the university before anything else. If you need an English test, book it before you start drafting anything. And if an award does not state its eligibility or its deadline, write to the provider rather than assume the answer. With 7 awards and a small Nigerian cohort in Switzerland, the applicants who get through are usually the ones who asked the awkward questions early.
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*UNESCO Institute for Statistics, inbound internationally mobile students from Nigeria, 2024.
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