We list 3 scholarships for Nigerian Students in Qatar, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 2 of them are fully funded. 1 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
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
5
New Zealand
5
Saudi Arabia
5
Singapore
5
Austria
4
Brazil
4
Ireland
4
Turkey
4
France
3
Norway
3
Qatar
Spain
2
Written from the 3 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 6 min read.
This page lists 3 scholarships in Qatar open to international students, and it is written for Nigerian applicants working through the same set of questions: which awards actually take a Nigerian passport, what they pay for, and what the paperwork demands before you can be considered.
Qatar is a small country with a small number of universities, so the list is short. That is not a weakness in the page; it is the reality of the market. Three awards, three providers, and a clear split between undergraduate and postgraduate routes. If you are applying from Lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt and paying for your own transcripts and courier fees, a short list is easier to work through properly than a long one.
The three entries are:
Two of the three are labelled fully funded. One does not state its funding position either way, so treat that entry as one to read carefully before you build a budget around it.
Among the awards on this page, two name tuition in their own text. Two name living costs. Two name accommodation. One names travel, one names health insurance, and one names research or training costs.
Those are the benefits the awards state in writing. They are not a promise that every successful applicant receives every line, and they are not a guarantee of a particular monthly figure. Read each award's own conditions for how the money is released, whether it is paid to you or to the institution, and what happens if your enrolment changes.
For a Nigerian applicant, the practical question is usually accommodation and living costs rather than tuition alone. Tuition is the visible number; rent, food and the cost of getting there are the ones that decide whether you can actually take up an offer. Two of these awards name accommodation and two name living costs, which is worth noting when you compare them.
Two awards on this page are at bachelor's level. Two are at master's level. One is at PhD level. These groups overlap, so a single award may appear in more than one of those counts.
For undergraduate entry, the Nigerian pathway is your WAEC or NECO result plus the requirements the university sets for international applicants. For master's entry, it is a B.Sc or HND, or an M.Sc where you are moving into a doctoral programme. Where an award states a minimum degree class, that is a stated requirement and not a preference — check your class of degree against it before you spend money on a courier.
The awards here sit in four subject areas: Arts & Humanities, Economics & Finance, Public Policy & Development, and Social Sciences. One award is listed in each. If your background is in engineering, medicine or the pure sciences, this particular list is thin for you, and you should look at the wider country and subject pages rather than forcing a fit.
This is the part most applicants get wrong, so read it slowly.
Of the awards on this page, 1 is open to Nigerians on the evidence we hold. Within that figure, none names Nigeria or the region as a restricted or preferred nationality, and 1 carries no nationality restriction at all. Those two statements describe the same single award, not two separate groups.
For the remaining awards, the eligibility position is not stated on the award itself. That is 2 of the 3 entries. It does not mean Nigerians are excluded, and it does not mean Nigerians are welcome. It means the page cannot tell you, and you have to confirm directly with the provider before you invest in an application.
So the honest summary is: one award clearly takes Nigerian applicants, and for the other two you must verify. Do that verification first, before transcripts, before courier fees, before anything else.
Two awards state that they require an English test score, either IELTS or TOEFL. Two state a minimum degree class. Two require an admission offer first, which changes the order of operations entirely: you apply to the university, and only then can you be considered for the funding. One asks for letters of recommendation.
Take the admission-offer-first requirement seriously. It means the scholarship clock starts after an admissions decision, and admissions decisions take time. If you are also chasing a transcript from a Nigerian university that is slow to release it, or waiting on a referee who has moved institutions, that delay compounds.
Where an English test is required, check whether the award or the university accepts a waiver — some institutions waive the test where your previous degree was taught in English. That is a question for the admissions office, not for this page, and the answer differs by institution.
Two of the three awards carry a stated date. Two are still open at the time of writing. One is undated. Two recur annually, so if you miss this cycle there is a next one.
The busiest months across this list are January and December, with one award closing in each.
The two closing soonest are:
That gives you roughly three months to the first deadline and a little over three months to the second. It is enough time to order transcripts, sit or re-sit an English test if one is needed, and brief your referees — but only if you start now rather than in December.
The third award, Qatar University Scholarships (QU) 2026-2027, shows "see details" rather than a date. Open it and confirm the current cycle before you plan around it.
Work in this order and you will not waste money.
Three awards is a small list, and that is precisely why it is workable. Read each one properly, verify the eligibility question you cannot answer from the page, and give yourself the full runway to the December and January deadlines.
Qatar has rapidly emerged as a regional education hub, offering world-class academic programs, modern campuses, and generous fully funded scholarships for Nigerian students. for Nigerian students, Qatar presents an excellent opportunity to pursue undergraduate, master's, or PhD studies at top-tier universities like Qatar University, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and institutions within Education City (including branches of U.S. universities). These scholarships are highly competitive and cover tuition fees, accommodation, monthly stipends, travel expenses, and more.
Below is a detailed guide to some of the best fully funded scholarships in Qatar for international students for the academic year 2026–2027:
*UNESCO Institute for Statistics, inbound internationally mobile students from Nigeria, 2024.
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