We list 2 partially Funded High School Scholarships for Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 1 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
Written from the 2 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 2 partially funded high school scholarships open to Nigerian students. Both are in the United States. Both sit at the school level rather than at degree level, and both are partial awards — meaning the award covers part of the cost and the student, the family, or another funder carries the rest.
Two is a small number, and it is worth saying so plainly. If you are looking for a fully funded place at a secondary school abroad, this page will not give you that. What it does give you is a short, checkable list: two named awards, both with a United States address, one tied to a November deadline and one recurring each November.
The first is the Elks National Foundation Scholarships 2026 - 2027 USA, offered through American colleges and universities. Its deadline is listed as November, annual — meaning the window opens on the same rhythm each year rather than once only.
The second is the Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowships 2027, offered through leading universities worldwide and listed with a United States country tag.
Read the level labels carefully before you invest time in either. The Elks award is listed at undergraduate level. The Schlumberger award is listed at PhD (Doctoral) / Postdoctoral level. Neither is a high school award in the strict sense, even though they appear in this collection because of how the funding and level facets are tagged. If you are a Nigerian student finishing WAEC or NECO and looking for a place in a secondary school abroad, check the eligibility text on each award page before you assume you qualify.
Both awards on this page are labelled partially funded. That label tells you the award does not carry the whole cost of study. It does not tell you which costs it carries.
This is the part Nigerian applicants most often get wrong. A partial award may cover tuition only, or a fixed contribution toward fees, or a stipend, or a book allowance. The brief for this page does not record a stated value or a stated number of awards for either entry, so no figure can be given here. What you can do is open each award page and read the funding section line by line, then write down what is covered and what is not.
Then do the arithmetic that matters: the gap. If the award covers part of tuition, who covers the rest? If it covers fees but not living costs, what does a year of living in the United States cost, and where does that money come from? A partial award that leaves a gap you cannot close is not a route, however strong the name on it.
Of the awards on this page, 1 is open to Nigerian applicants. Within that group, 0 name Nigeria or the West African region in their own eligibility text, and 1 carries no nationality restriction at all. The remaining award does not state its eligibility on the award page.
That last point matters. Where eligibility is not stated, you cannot assume either way. The correct move is to contact the provider directly and ask, in writing, whether Nigerian nationals are eligible, and to keep the reply.
For the award that carries no nationality restriction, the absence of a restriction is not the same as a welcome. It means the text does not exclude you by nationality. Other conditions — level of study, subject, age, institution — may still exclude you, and those are the conditions to read next.
The brief for this page does not record which documents either award asks for, so nothing here can be promised about transcripts, references or essays. What can be said is what the two awards are, and what that implies about preparation.
The Elks award sits at undergraduate level and is administered through American colleges and universities. Awards of that shape typically sit inside an admissions process, which means your school records, your English test position and your financial documentation all move on the same timeline.
The Schlumberger award sits at PhD and postdoctoral level. Applications at that level turn on your research record and your referees, and referees are the slowest part of any application. Ask early, give them your CV and a clear statement of what the award is, and give them a date.
For a Nigerian applicant, the practical bottleneck is usually documents. Transcripts from a Nigerian university or polytechnic can take weeks to process, and courier costs are paid out of pocket. Start those requests before you start the application form, not after.
One award on this page carries a date, one is still open, one is undated, and one recurs. The busiest month is November, with one deadline falling in it.
The next deadline to close is the Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowships 2027, which closes 8 November. The Elks National Foundation award runs on a November annual cycle.
One deadline in November means you are not managing a crowded calendar. It also means there is no second chance in the same month if you miss it. Treat 8 November as fixed and work backwards: referees four weeks before, documents six weeks before, English test position earlier still if a test is needed.
Both awards here are tagged partially funded, and both are tagged at school level. That is what puts them together on this page. It does not mean they are interchangeable, and it does not mean either is a full ride.
The rest of the site carries awards at other levels and other funding types. If your goal is a fully funded award, or an award at bachelors level, this particular list is not the one to work from. Use it for what it is: two named United States awards, one open to Nigerian applicants without a stated nationality restriction, one with eligibility unstated, and a November deadline that is close enough to plan around now.
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