We list 40 partially Funded Scholarships for 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 (12), Australia (11) and Ireland (3). 17 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
Written from the 40 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 4 min read.
This page holds every award on ScholarshipsNigeria that fits one description: Partially Funded Scholarships for Nigerian Students. There are 40 of them right now. Each entry was read before it was listed, and the deadline, study level, what the award pays for and who may apply were taken from the scholarship's own published terms — not from a summary of it, and not from another listing site.
The awards are held in 14 countries, concentrated in the United Kingdom (12), Australia (11), Ireland (3) and New Zealand (2). Where you study changes the cost of everything the scholarship does not cover, so the host country is worth deciding before the shortlist.
Scholarship pages use words like "full funding" loosely, so we counted what the awards on this list actually name in their own benefit sections. Across the 40 entries:
Read the counts as "this many awards say so in writing". An award that does not mention flights has not refused to pay for them — it simply has not promised them, and that is the difference you need to budget for. The cost a Nigerian applicant most often forgets is not tuition but the part before the scholarship starts: passport, transcripts, courier fees, an English test if one is required, and the visa itself.
17 of the 40 awards on this page are open to Nigerian applicants on their own stated terms. 2 of those name Nigeria, or a region that contains Nigeria, directly in the eligible-countries wording; the other 15 place no nationality restriction at all, which means a Nigerian passport is not a barrier to applying.
We also counted what the 40 awards ask applicants to produce, reading each award's own requirements:
8 of the 40 mention an English test, which leaves 32 that do not raise it on the award page. Several universities waive IELTS for Nigerian applicants because the degree was taught in English, but that waiver is a university decision rather than a scholarship one, so ask the admissions office in writing and keep the reply.
Start with the documents that take longest and do not depend on the award: a valid passport, official transcripts from your institution, and a reference your referee has actually agreed to write. Those three are what make a late-discovered deadline impossible to meet.
12 of the awards on this page have a closing date that has not passed, and they are listed soonest first. 12 carry a date that repeats each cycle — the month is reliable, the exact day is confirmed by the provider when the round opens. 28 publish no date at all, usually because applications are tied to the university admission round rather than to the scholarship.
The year is not evenly spread. On this list the heaviest months are July (3), June (2) and May (2). Work backwards from those months rather than forwards from today.
Closing next on this list:
By study level the list breaks down as Masters (31), Bachelors (27), PhD (4), High School (2) and Short Course (2). An award counts under every level it accepts, so the numbers overlap where a scholarship funds both a masters and a doctorate.
By subject the strongest areas here are Business & Management (5), Engineering (4), Arts & Humanities (3), Natural Sciences (3), Computer Science & IT (2) and Energy & Environment (2). Awards open to any field are tagged to none of these, so a subject filter never hides the awards that would have accepted you anyway — those are shown separately on each subject page.
The providers appearing most often are University of Sydney (1), University of Melbourne (1), IT University of Copenhagen (1), American Colleges and Universities (1) and The University of Winnipeg (1). Where one institution runs several awards it is usually worth reading all of them together: they often share one application form and one deadline.
Stated duration, where an award gives one, runs mostly to 1 year (8 awards), 3 years (2 awards) and 4 years (2 awards).
Work down the list rather than across it. Open the three or four awards whose deadline you can still meet, read what each one pays for against what your year will actually cost, and check the eligibility line before anything else — a Nigerian applicant who fails one stated condition cannot be rescued by a strong statement of purpose.
Use the filters in the sidebar to narrow by level, host country, subject or funding, and set an alert for this list if the next round is months away: most of these awards open and close inside a four-week window, and the people who miss them are rarely the people who were unqualified.
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