We list 2 partially Funded Short Course 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 Canada (1) and New Zealand (1). 1 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants.
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 scholarships that are both partially funded and open at short course level. Both awards come from universities rather than from a government or a foundation: The University of Winnipeg in Canada and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Each provider appears once.
Two is a small number, and it is worth being clear about why. Most short courses abroad are not separately funded. They sit inside a university's wider scholarship scheme, and the same award that a student uses for a diploma or a postgraduate certificate is the one listed under degree study. That is exactly what has happened here: both awards are tagged at Bachelors, Masters and Short Course level at the same time. They are not short-course-only awards. They are broader awards that a short-course applicant can also use.
Read the two entries with that in mind. You are not looking at a dedicated pot of money for six-month programmes. You are looking at university scholarship schemes where a short course is one of the routes in.
One award sits in Canada and one in New Zealand. Neither is in the United Kingdom, the United States or Germany, which is where most Nigerian applicants look first. If your search has been limited to those three countries, this page is the reason to widen it.
Partial funding is not a single thing. It can mean a tuition discount, a stipend, a fee waiver, or a contribution towards living costs. The two awards on this page do not all describe their benefits in the same way, and the brief records only what each award states in its own text.
Of the two, one award names tuition among what it covers. That is the only benefit confirmed in writing across the pair. For the other award, the funding label is partial but the specific benefits are not set out in the same terms, so treat the details as something to confirm on the award page itself rather than assume.
What partial funding will not do is cover everything. A short course abroad carries costs beyond tuition: flights, visa fees, accommodation, insurance, and the day-to-day cost of living in Canada or New Zealand. Neither award is described here as meeting those. Plan for the gap before you apply, not after you are offered a place.
Of the two awards, one is open to Nigerian applicants. Within that one award, no nationality restriction is stated, and for one award the eligibility is not stated on the award at all.
Neither award names Nigeria or the African region in its eligibility text. That is not a rejection. It means the awards do not use nationality as a filter in the way some schemes do. Where a scheme is silent on nationality, the practical question shifts to the academic requirements: your degree class, your subject background, and whether the university recognises your Nigerian qualification for the level you are applying to.
For short courses specifically, the entry bar is usually lower than for a full master's. A short course may accept an HND, a B.Sc, or an M.Sc depending on the subject. What matters is whether the department running the course recognises your transcript and your English proficiency. If you studied in English at a Nigerian university, ask the admissions office directly whether an English test is required — many universities waive it, but the waiver is granted case by case, not automatically.
The brief records one requirement across the pair: one award asks for letters of recommendation. That is a normal ask, and for a Nigerian applicant it is often the slowest part of the process.
Start with your referees early. A lecturer who taught you two years ago may need reminding who you are. Give them your CV, your transcript, the name of the award, and a short note on what the scholarship is for. Ask at least three weeks before the deadline. If your referee is on strike, on sabbatical, or has moved institutions, you need time to find a replacement.
Where an award does not state a recommendation requirement, do not assume none is needed. Check the award page. Requirements are frequently listed on the department's own page rather than in the scholarship summary.
Both awards on this page are undated in the brief. Neither has a fixed closing date recorded, and neither is marked as currently open. That does not mean there is no deadline. It means the deadline is not stated in a form this page can report.
One of the two carries intake information rather than a single closing date. The University of Auckland entry references a Semester One intake running from 11 September to 23 October. Treat that window as the period to work towards, and confirm the exact closing date on the award page before you build your application timeline around it.
Because there are no dated deadlines here, the risk is different from a normal scholarship search. You will not miss a date you can see. You may miss one you assumed was later than it is. Check both award pages directly, and check them again closer to the intake you are targeting.
Two awards is a thin list, and it would be wrong to present it as anything else. What this page gives you is a starting point: two named universities in two countries, both willing to part-fund study that includes a short-course route, and one of them open to Nigerian applicants without a stated nationality bar.
Everything else — the exact value, the specific costs covered, the closing date, the documents required — sits on the award pages, not here. Confirm each detail there before you commit money to transcripts, couriers or test fees. A scholarship search is only as good as the verification you do on the other side of it.
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