We list 7 partially Funded Undergraduate Scholarships Open to Nigerian Students in the United Kingdom, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
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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 partially funded undergraduate scholarships in the United Kingdom that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here is for a bachelor's degree, and every one sits in the United Kingdom. None of them funds a full degree outright; each one covers part of the cost, and the award page states what that part is.
The awards come from six universities: Kingston University, the University of Exeter, the University of Brighton, the University of Dundee, Aston University and Birkbeck University of London. One provider appears twice in the wider set, which is why six names sit behind seven awards. If you are weighing a UK degree against the cost of getting there, this is the list to work through methodically rather than quickly.
Yes, and the brief is specific about how. Of the 7 awards, 1 names Nigeria or the region in its own eligibility text, and the other 6 carry no nationality restriction at all. That second group is the larger one, and it matters: an award with no nationality restriction is open to you on the same terms as any other international applicant, provided you meet the academic and English requirements the award sets.
Do not assume that "no nationality restriction" means "no conditions". It means the condition is not your passport. It is still your results, your admission offer and, for some awards, your test scores.
The subject spread on this page is narrow, and you should know that before you spend an afternoon on it.
The remaining awards are not tied to a single subject in the brief. If you are applying for engineering, law, computer science or the humanities, read each award page directly: an award that is not listed under a subject may still accept your course, and an award that is listed under one subject may not.
Partially funded means exactly that. The brief records what the awards say in their own text about what they cover:
These are statements made by the awards themselves, not guarantees, and they are not a full picture of every benefit on the page. Some awards describe their funding in other terms, and some do not label it in a way the brief captures. Read each award page for the precise benefit before you build a budget around it. A partial award rarely covers living costs, visa costs, flights, or the transcript and courier fees you are already paying out of pocket.
The requirements recorded on this page are modest in number, but each one can stop an application cold.
Two things are worth flagging for a Nigerian applicant. First, the English test: only one award states it here, but that does not mean the others waive it. Many UK universities waive an IELTS or TOEFL requirement where your secondary or tertiary education was taught in English, and WAEC, NECO or NABTEB results are commonly accepted as evidence. Whether a waiver applies is decided by the university, not by this page. Ask the admissions office in writing and keep the reply.
Second, the "minimum degree class" wording. That phrasing belongs to postgraduate awards. At undergraduate level the equivalent is your senior secondary results, and the brief's pathway note is clear: most awards at this level ask for your senior secondary results and an admission offer, and each award page quotes its own entry requirement. If you already hold a B.Sc, HND or M.Sc, you are reading the wrong level — the same collection holds 6 master's awards.
Deadlines are the part of this page most likely to catch you out, because most of the awards do not publish one in a form the brief can record.
Six undated awards is not the same as six awards with no deadline. It means the date is not stated in the brief, so you must open the award page and find it. The one dated award closing soonest is Kingston University Scholarships 2026-2027, which closes 10 May. The University of Exeter's undergraduate round falls on 22 April 2026, and Aston University's undergraduate deadline is 31 May 2026. Birkbeck lists three dates — 18 May, 22 June and 20 July — and the University of Brighton runs applications from January to July.
Treat every date on an award page as the one that counts, and treat it as a document deadline, not an application deadline. Your transcript request, your referee's letter and your courier booking all take time before anything reaches the UK.
Start with the award that has a date, because it is the one you can plan around. Open Kingston University Scholarships 2026-2027 first, confirm the benefit and the entry requirement, and work backwards from 10 May.
Then work through the rest of the list and sort them by what you can actually meet. For each award, answer four questions in writing before you invest effort:
Where an award names Nigeria or the region, note it. Where it carries no nationality restriction, note that too — those 6 awards are the bulk of this page and they are open to you. Where the brief does not state a figure, do not fill the gap with a guess; ask the university.
One more piece of context. The UK is not a marginal destination for Nigerian students. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 71,756 Nigerian students were studying in the United Kingdom in 2023, the largest such group from any country. You are applying into a well-worn path, which means the universities know Nigerian qualifications and the admissions offices have answers ready. Use that. Ask direct questions, keep copies of every reply, and apply to more than one award on this list.
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*UNESCO Institute for Statistics, inbound internationally mobile students from Nigeria, 2023.
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