We list 5 scholarships Open to Nigerian Students in Thailand, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 4 of them are fully funded.
Written from the 5 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 7 min read.
This page collects 5 scholarships in Thailand that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here is at postgraduate level: 5 are open to PhD applicants and 4 to master's applicants. All 5 are at Thai institutions, and the providers named in the listings include Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Chulalongkorn University and Prince of Songkla University.
The important point for a Nigerian reader is how the eligibility works. None of these 5 awards names Nigeria or the African region in its eligibility text. Instead, all 5 carry no nationality restriction at all. That is why they appear on a page for Nigerian students: you qualify as an international applicant on the same terms as anyone else, not through a Nigeria-specific quota. It also means you are competing in the general international pool, so your documents and your research proposal carry the weight.
Funding is stated on every award on this page. 4 are fully funded and 1 is partially funded.
Looking at what the awards say in writing about their benefits:
Read those as what each award states about itself, not as a promise that every line item is covered in full. A fully funded award that names tuition, living costs and travel is telling you the categories it intends to support; the amount attached to each category is set out in the award's own terms, and you should read those terms before you build a budget around them.
Only one field of study is named in the listings on this page: Medicine & Health Sciences, named by 1 award. The rest of the awards do not restrict themselves to a single named field in the text we hold, which is typical of institute-wide postgraduate scholarships in Thailand. If your background is in engineering, science or technology, several of the providers here are technical institutes, and their own pages will tell you which departments are taking students.
Yes, on nationality. The 5 awards on this page either name no nationality restriction or are otherwise open to international applicants, so a Nigerian passport is not a barrier in itself. What decides your case is the academic requirement attached to the level you are applying for.
For master's entry, Thai postgraduate programmes generally work from your bachelor's degree. A Nigerian B.Sc or HND with a strong class — a Second Class Upper, or a Second Class Lower with a relevant master's already completed — is the usual starting position, and your transcript is the document that carries that claim. For PhD entry, the programmes here expect a master's degree in a related field, and the decision usually turns on whether a supervisor will take you on.
Two practical points for Nigerian applicants. First, your transcript and certificate have to come from your Nigerian institution, and that means paying for the transcript, paying for a courier, and waiting. Start that process before you start the application, because it is the slowest part of the file. Second, all 5 awards on this page ask for an English test score — IELTS or TOEFL. If you studied your degree in English, ask the admissions office directly whether they will waive it; some Thai institutions do, and the award text here does not settle the question either way.
The requirements stated across these awards are narrow and consistent:
That is the short list. Do not read it as the whole file. A Thai postgraduate application normally also wants your transcripts, your degree certificates, a statement of purpose or research proposal, and a passport copy, and the award pages themselves will list anything further. What the two lines above tell you is where Nigerian applicants lose time: booking an IELTS or TOEFL test date and getting two referees to write and sign letters are the two items you control least once the deadline is close.
On referees, pick people who taught you or supervised your project and who can speak to specific work. A letter that says you were a good student is worth less than one that names your final-year project, your result, and why you can handle independent research. Give your referees a copy of your proposal and a deadline that is earlier than the real one.
None of the 5 awards on this page carries a fixed date in our listings. All 5 are undated here, which means the closing date sits on the provider's own page and moves with each intake cycle. There is no busiest month to plan around from this page, and no award is marked as closing soon.
Two listings do give you a shape for the cycle. The SIIT (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology) Scholarships listing shows March 31, 2026 for the September intake, with a September date following it, and it also carries an award count of 40 — the only award count on this page. The Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) listing notes that applications usually fall in February to March each year. Treat both as patterns to verify, not as dates you can rely on.
What this means in practice: you cannot run a single calendar for all 5. You open each award page, find the intake you want, and work backwards. If you are targeting a September start, the application work sits in the first quarter of the year, which puts your English test and your transcript request in the months before that.
The 5 listings, with their internal pages:
Where a duration is stated, it follows the level: two years for a master's degree and three years for a doctoral degree appears in the listings, and one award states three years. Plan your funding and your leave from work around the level you are entering, not around the shortest figure you can find.
Thailand is not a large destination for Nigerian students. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics recorded 350 Nigerian students in Thailand in 2024, which placed Nigeria 34th among the countries sending students there. That is a small community, and it cuts both ways: you are unlikely to arrive into an established Nigerian network on campus, and you should expect to handle your own paperwork, housing search and settling-in without much help from people who have done it before you.
The offset is that the awards on this page are genuinely open rather than earmarked. None of the 5 reserves places for Nigerians or for African applicants, so there is no separate, smaller contest to enter — you apply to the same pool as everyone else, and you win or lose on your file.
Start with the two awards that give you a date to work from. The SIIT listing names March 31, 2026 for the September intake, and the VISTEC listing points to February to March. Open both pages, confirm the current cycle, and note the real closing date.
Then work in this order. Book your IELTS or TOEFL date first, because the test and the result turnaround set your outer limit. Request your transcript from your Nigerian institution in the same week, and pay for the courier at the same time. Ask two referees, give them your proposal and an early deadline. Draft your statement of purpose or research proposal while the transcript is in transit, and check whether your target department has a supervisor working in your area before you name them in the application.
Read each award's own terms for what it covers and what it expects. The counts on this page describe what the awards say in writing; the award page is where the binding version sits. Work through all 5 listings rather than stopping at the first one, since the levels differ — 5 take PhD applicants and 4 take master's applicants — and the fit between your degree and the programme is what decides the outcome.
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