We list 13 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. 10 of them are fully funded. Most are held in China (3), the United States (3) and Australia (2). 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 13 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 6 min read.
This page collects 13 scholarships in Medicine & Health Sciences that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here sits in the medicine and health sciences field, and every one of them is either explicitly open to Nigerian applicants or carries no nationality restriction at all. That distinction matters when you are shortlisting, so it is worth stating plainly: of the 13, one names Nigeria or the wider region in its own eligibility text, and the remaining 12 place no nationality restriction on who may apply. No award on this list states an eligibility rule that would shut a Nigerian applicant out.
The list is not built around a single country or a single degree level. It runs across seven destinations and three study levels, which means an undergraduate in Lagos, a house officer with an MBBS, and a lecturer with an M.Sc who wants a PhD are all looking at the same page for different reasons.
Ten of the 13 awards are labelled fully funded. One is labelled partially funded. The remaining two do not label their funding either way, so treat those two as unknown until you read the individual award page and confirm what is on offer.
For the awards that do spell out their benefits, the pattern is consistent. Six name tuition. Five name living costs. Four name travel. Two name accommodation, two name health insurance, and two name research or training costs. One names a settling-in or arrival grant. These are the benefits the awards themselves state in writing. They are not a promise that every cost you will face is covered, and you should read each award's own terms before you budget.
If funding is the deciding factor for you, the Stanford University Scholarships 2027, the Eric Bleumink Scholarships at the University of Groningen, the Australia Awards Scholarships 2027 and the Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) are all labelled fully funded.
China and the United States each host three of the awards. Australia and the United Kingdom each host two. The Netherlands, Singapore and Thailand each host one. That spread is useful if you already have a preference, and it is equally useful if you do not, because it means you can apply the same documents to systems with very different admission cultures.
On study level, the list is unusually even. Eight awards are open at Bachelors level, eight at Masters level, and eight at PhD level. Many of the awards appear at more than one level, which is why the three figures overlap rather than adding up to 13. If you are applying straight from secondary school with your WAEC or NECO result, the Bachelors group is your starting point. If you hold a B.Sc or HND and are looking to specialise, the Masters group applies. If you already hold a Masters and want a research degree, the PhD group is where you should spend your time.
Where an award states a duration, the terms vary. Three awards state a duration of four years. One states a Bachelor's programme of four to five years. One PhD award states three and a half years with no extension available, which is a detail worth reading twice before you commit to a research timeline.
The requirements the awards state in writing are worth counting, because they tell you what to gather first. Five awards ask for an English test score, either IELTS or TOEFL. Five ask for letters of recommendation. Two require an admission offer before you can be considered. One states a minimum degree class. One asks for a research proposal.
For a Nigerian applicant, the practical order of operations follows from that. English test bookings and recommendation letters take the longest to arrange and appear most often, so start there. If you are applying at Masters or PhD level, speak to the people who taught you during your degree or your NYSC placement early, while they still remember your work. If you are applying at undergraduate level, your school and your referees will need notice too.
The two awards that require an admission offer first are a different kind of application. You cannot submit them cold. You must be admitted to the institution before the scholarship is in play, which pushes your timeline back by months. The one award stating a minimum degree class should be checked against your own transcript before you spend money on a courier.
Seven of the 13 awards carry a stated date, and all seven of those are still open. Six are undated, and seven run on a recurring cycle, meaning the same window returns each year. October, June and December are the busiest months, with two deadlines falling in each.
The soonest deadlines on the page are:
Two of these fall in the same week in December, so if both are on your list, plan the documents for both at once rather than treating them as separate projects.
The providers behind this list include Stanford University, Boston University, the University of Groningen, the University of Stirling, the University of Tasmania, participating Australian institutions, A*STAR in collaboration with NTU, NUS and SUTD, and university groups in Beijing and Shanghai. That mix of single-university awards and national or multi-institution schemes is worth noting, because the application routes differ. A single-university award is usually handled by that university's own admissions and funding office. A national scheme such as the Australia Awards runs through its own portal and its own eligibility check.
Two examples show how the levels differ in practice. The GEMS International Undergraduate Scholarship 2026-2027 at the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom sits at undergraduate level and closes 30 June. The Singapore International Graduate Award sits at PhD level and closes 1 June. Same continent-spanning ambition, very different documents.
Start by deciding your level, because that cuts the page down fastest. Then decide whether you can wait for an admission offer before applying, because that removes or keeps two awards. Then check the English test requirement against your own situation, since five awards ask for a score and you need to know whether you are booking a test this month or claiming a waiver.
After that, work by deadline. The awards closing soonest are listed above with their links. Read each one on its own page, confirm what it says it covers, and confirm the level it is open at. Do not assume that because an award appears on this page it fits your profile. The page tells you these 13 are open to Nigerian students. It does not tell you that any one of them is right for you.
Finally, budget for the parts no scholarship covers. Transcripts, courier fees, test fees and document certification come out of your pocket before any award decision is made. Plan those costs alongside the deadlines, not after them.
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