We list 5 scholarships for Nigerian Students in Denmark, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 4 of them are fully funded. 2 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants.
United Kingdom
40
United States
37
Australia
27
Canada
20
China
12
Italy
10
Sweden
10
Germany
9
United Arab Emirates
9
Belgium
8
Japan
8
Switzerland
8
Netherlands
6
Russia
6
Thailand
6
Denmark
New Zealand
5
Saudi Arabia
5
Singapore
5
Austria
4
Brazil
4
Ireland
4
Turkey
4
France
3
Norway
3
Qatar
3
Spain
2
Written from the 5 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 6 min read.
This page collects 5 scholarships in Denmark that are open to Nigerian students. They are not all the same kind of award. Some are government-linked tuition waivers attached to a Danish master's programme. Some are salaried doctoral positions at a Danish university department. One is a European exchange scheme that routes through Danish partner institutions.
Four of the five are labelled fully funded. One is labelled partially funded. That distinction matters when you are budgeting, because a partial award may cover tuition and leave living costs to you, and Copenhagen is not a cheap city to land in with no stipend.
Denmark appears as the host country on all five entries, which is what you would expect from a country collection. Three of the five name a specific Danish institution in the listing: the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Copenhagen and the IT University of Copenhagen. The remaining entries are tied to Danish universities collectively or to a named university through the award description.
Read the funding line on each award before you read anything else. Across this list, 4 awards name tuition in their own text, 3 name living costs, 1 names travel and 1 names health insurance. Those are the words the awards use about themselves. They are not a promise that every cost you will face is covered, and they are not a promise about how much cash reaches your account.
The pattern is worth noticing. Tuition is the benefit Danish awards mention most often, which fits a system where tuition for non-EU students is the first barrier. Living costs appear in three, usually as a stipend or salary. Travel and insurance appear rarely, so treat them as the exception rather than the norm and plan your flight and insurance budget separately unless the award text says otherwise.
Four awards are labelled fully funded and one partially funded. Where an award is described as covering tuition and assisting with living expenses, that is the wording to work from. Do not assume a full stipend on top of a fee waiver.
The list splits across three levels, and the groups overlap because some awards recruit at more than one level.
For a Nigerian reader, the master's entries are the ones that follow the familiar application route: you hold a B.Sc or HND, you apply to the programme, and the scholarship decision sits alongside admission. The PhD entries behave differently. Danish doctoral positions are frequently employment rather than study, which is why one of the listings describes a salary, a tuition waiver and benefits, and why another states that the position is available for 3 years. A separate entry describes a 2-year full-time duration.
If you are coming straight from a Nigerian master's and want to continue into research, the PhD entries are the realistic target. If you are coming from a B.Sc with a strong class of degree, the master's entries are where to start.
This is the question the page exists to answer, and the answer is more layered than a yes or no.
2 of the 5 awards are open to Nigerian applicants. Within that group, none names Nigeria or the region as a target, and 2 carry no nationality restriction at all. In other words, the two awards you can apply to are open because they are open to everyone, not because they were designed for African or Nigerian candidates.
For the remaining 3 awards, the eligibility is not stated on the award itself. That is not the same as being closed to you. It means the listing does not tell us one way or the other, and you would need to check the award's own documentation before spending money on transcripts or a courier.
Practical reading: do not skip an award because it does not mention Nigeria. Do skip an award once its own rules exclude you. The distinction between "not stated" and "not eligible" is where Nigerian applicants lose and gain opportunities respectively.
The requirements recorded across these awards give a fair picture of the paperwork load.
The English test is the single most common requirement on this list, appearing in four of the five. If you are budgeting, an IELTS or TOEFL fee is likely to be part of your cost before you submit anything. Some Danish institutions waive the test where your previous degree was taught in English, but the brief does not record any waiver on these awards, so treat the test as required unless the award's own page says otherwise.
Three awards ask for recommendation letters. In Nigerian practice that means approaching lecturers early, giving them your CV and statement, and following up politely rather than at the deadline. One award expects a research proposal, which points at the PhD route. One expects you to hold an admission offer before you apply for the money, which changes your sequence entirely: programme application first, funding application second.
None of the five awards carries a fixed closing date in this listing. All five are recorded as undated, with the deadline shown as "see details" or as an intake-based note. There is no busiest month to plan around here, and no award on this page is currently flagged as closing soon.
That does not mean you can wait. It means the timing lives on each award's own page, and for Danish master's intakes the pattern is usually tied to the intake you are targeting rather than to a single global date. One entry references a February intake and a September intake with different dates attached. PhD positions are the opposite: they open when a department has funding and close when the position is filled, so the useful habit is checking vacancy pages regularly rather than once a year.
Treat every undated entry as a prompt to open the award page and find the real date yourself.
The five entries, with their internal pages:
Start with the two awards that carry no nationality restriction, because those are the ones where your eligibility is not in question. Read their pages properly, note whether the English test is mandatory, and check whether you need an admission offer before you can apply for funding.
Then work through the three awards whose eligibility is not stated. For each, find the award's own rules on nationality and level. If a rule excludes you, close the tab and move on. If it does not, add it to your list.
On documents, the sequence that saves money is this: confirm eligibility, confirm the deadline, then order transcripts and pay for courier delivery. Transcripts and courier fees are the costs you cannot recover if you discover afterwards that you were never eligible.
Finally, keep the numbers in perspective. For context, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics recorded 30 Nigerian students in Denmark in 2024, a rank of 74 as a destination. Denmark is not a crowded destination for Nigerian students. That cuts both ways: fewer people competing for the same awards, and fewer people around who have already done the paperwork. The five awards on this page are a short list, and a short list is easier to work through properly than a long one.
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*UNESCO Institute for Statistics, inbound internationally mobile students from Nigeria, 2024.
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