We list 12 partially Funded Undergraduate Scholarships Open to Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. Most are held in the United Kingdom (7), Australia (2) and Austria (1). Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
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Written from the 12 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 12 partially funded undergraduate scholarships that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here is for a first degree, and every one of them is partial: it covers part of the cost of study rather than the whole bill. That distinction matters when you are budgeting, because a partial award still leaves tuition, living costs, flights and visa fees for you and your family to plan around.
All 12 are open to Nigerian applicants. For 11 of the 12, the award text sets no nationality restriction at all. For 1, Nigeria or the wider region is named directly. In other words, you are not chasing a scheme that quietly excludes you — the eligibility wording on these pages either names your country or says nothing that would rule you out.
None of the 12 leaves its funding position unstated. Each one is labelled partial, so you know from the start what kind of award you are reading about.
The list leans heavily towards the United Kingdom. Seven of the 12 awards are there. Australia follows with 2, then Austria, New Zealand and Singapore with 1 each.
That UK weighting is worth noting for practical reasons. A large share of Nigerian undergraduate applications abroad already go to the UK, and these awards sit inside that same system, which means the document trail — transcripts, WAEC or NECO results, references, English tests where required — is one you are likely assembling anyway.
Partial funding is not one thing. It is whatever each award says it is, and the wording varies from page to page.
Of the 12, 5 name tuition in their own text as something the award goes towards. 1 names research or training costs. The remaining awards describe their benefits in their own terms, and you should read each page rather than assume a pattern.
No award on this page states a cash value or an award count in the brief, so this page does not quote figures for either. Where an amount exists, it will be on the individual award page, in the provider's own words.
All 12 awards are listed at bachelors level. That is the point of the collection: a first degree, not a master's and not a doctorate.
Some providers on this page run their funding across more than one level, and their pages are tagged accordingly — 11 of the entries also appear under masters, 1 under PhD and 1 under short course. If you are reading this as a graduate student, those tags are where to look. If you are applying for your first degree, the bachelors tag is your filter.
Subject tagging is thin on this page. Business and Management appears on 2 awards and Medicine and Health Sciences on 1. Most of the 12 are general university awards that are not tied to a single course, which is good news if your intended course is not business or medicine.
The pathway into this level is straightforward. You finished secondary school, and you hold one of WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE. These awards are for an undergraduate degree abroad, so most of them will ask for your senior secondary results and an admission offer from the institution. Each award page quotes its own entry requirement, and that is the wording that governs your application.
Beyond that, the requirements the awards state in writing are modest in number. 2 ask for an English test score such as IELTS or TOEFL. 2 state a minimum degree class. 1 asks for work experience, and 1 expects an admission offer first.
Read those four categories carefully, because they shape your order of work. If an award wants an admission offer before it will consider you for funding, the university application comes first and the scholarship application second — not the other way round. If it wants an English test, book early; test slots and result turnaround take time, and a missing score is the easiest way to lose a place you otherwise deserved.
Partial awards tend to be judged on the same materials as a full admission: your secondary school results, a personal statement or essay, references, and proof that you can meet the portion of the cost the award does not cover.
That last point is the one Nigerian applicants most often underestimate. A partial scholarship is a discount, not a full ride. Before you apply, work out what remains — tuition balance, accommodation, living costs, flights, visa and health surcharges — and be honest about whether you can fund it. Providers ask, and a credible funding plan strengthens an application rather than weakening it.
On documents: transcripts and results verification take time, and courier costs are real. Start the paperwork well before the deadline you are targeting, and keep scanned copies of everything.
Ten of the 12 awards on this page do not carry a fixed date in the brief. Two do, and both fall in May. Two are marked as still open, and two recur — meaning the same award returns on a cycle rather than closing for good.
May is the busiest month here, with 2 deadlines. The two closing soonest are:
Others run on their own rhythms. Business Scholarships at S P Jain School of Global Management 2026-2027 is open all year. Webster Vienna Private University Scholarships 2026-2027 lists two dates, 31 May and 30 November. University of Exeter Scholarships 2026-2027 gives an undergraduate round two date of 22 April 2026. University of Auckland Scholarships 2026-2027 ties its dates to the Semester One intake window of 11 September to 23 October.
Where an award is undated, treat the provider's page as the authority and check it before you plan anything around it.
Award durations vary. Four of the entries state a duration of 1 year. One runs 4 years, one runs up to 5 years at undergraduate level and 1 year at master's, and one is structured as 4 years for the undergraduate degree and 2 years for the master's.
For a first degree, that spread matters. An award that covers one year leaves the remaining years of your programme unfunded, and you should plan the full course cost, not just the first year.
Start with the two May deadlines, since they are the only fixed dates on the page and the ones closest to closing. Read the Kingston and Adelaide pages in full, note what each one asks for, and work backwards from the date.
Then move through the rest of the 12. Check the country, the level tag and the stated requirements against your own results and plans. Where an award names tuition, confirm what portion it covers and what is left. Where it asks for an admission offer first, begin the university application now.
Finally, gather your documents once and reuse them: WAEC or NECO results, transcripts, references, a statement you can adapt, and an English test score if the award requires one. Twelve awards is a workable number to apply across, provided you start early and read each page rather than assuming the terms are the same.
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