Are you an African student searching for scholarship to fund your studies abroad? Search no more, below is a list of scholarships for African students to study abroad 2025-2026.
In order to promote international cooperation, particularly with Developing Countries (as classified by the World Bank in low, lower middle and upper middle-income economies) the University of Pavia and EDiSU (Institute of the Right to University Studies) are offering 5 scholarships to visiting scho
Published: 04 Apr 2025 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Italy Deadline: 31 May 2025
Appllications are now open for the University of Essex 2025 Africa Postgraduate Scholarship. If you're an international student from a member state of the African Union and are self-funding your postgraduate studies you could be eligible for a scholarship, paid as a discount on your tuition fee.
Published: 03 Apr 2025 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified
WFSA is offering scholarships for the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) 2026, made possible through generous donations from partner organisations and individuals The 19th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, from 15-19 April 2026. WC
Published: 02 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Morocco Deadline: 20 Apr 2025
Code for Africa (CfA), through the Digitalise Youth consortium, is offering two fellowships to mid-career professionals with experience in digital governance, policy and rights who want to make an impact in Africa’s AI landscape. Under this fellowship, chosen candidates will develop re
Published: 02 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo Deadline: 14 Apr 2025
The Digitalise Youth consortium, through Code for Africa (CfA), is offering six fellowships to technologists in Africa to work with human rights defending (HRD) organisations to assist them in rapidly scaling up their interventions through the savvy use of AI technology. The HRDs will be located in
Published: 01 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo Deadline: 14 Apr 2025
Amref International University (AMIU) in partnership with Mastercard Foundation, under the Learning for Life (L4L) programme, invites suitable candidates to apply for any of AMIU’s three listed postgraduate degree Programmes at the institution’s School of Public Health. AMIU, a premier P
Published: 01 Apr 2025 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Kenya Deadline: 04 Apr 2025
The YoLe Fellowship is a one-year programme that aims to empower young, innovative change-makers who have recently graduated from tertiary institutions in Ghana and positively impacting their communities. The programme provides training and mentorship on Leadership, Sustainable Development, Peace, H
Published: 01 Apr 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ghana Deadline: 18 Apr 2025
The Africa Postgraduate Excellence Award is the University of Nottingham’s scholarship award, designed to support international students who have achieved academic excellence and show true passion for their chosen field of study.
Published: 31 Mar 2025 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Value: £4,000 to £8,000 Deadline: 14 May 2025
Ashesi University and the Mastercard Foundation have been engaged in partnership since the launch of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme in 2012. Ashesi was among the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program’s nine pioneering partners. Hundreds of Mastercard Foundation Scholars have enr
Published: 31 Mar 2025 Type: Masters Study in: Ghana Deadline: 14 Jun 2025
Applications are now open Cardiff University 2025 Undergraduate International Excellence Scholarships. Their Undergraduate International Excellence scholarships for 2025 offer several half-fee scholarships to undergraduate international students who can demonstrate their academic pote
Published: 28 Mar 2025 Type: Undergraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 04 Apr 2025
The MTN Media Innovation Programme (MIP) is a 6-week long programme spread across six months for media practitioners in the Nigerian space. The programme will increase the knowledge and skill base of the participants and help them understand the changing media landscape, and how to effectively
Published: 28 Mar 2025 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: South Africa Deadline: 07 Apr 2025
This scholarship is open to applicants who are nationals and residents of a Bartlett approved list of Sub-Saharan African countries who have admission to a Bartlett master’s course.
Published: 27 Mar 2025 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 28 Mar 2025
In this call, NIERA invites policymakers from eligible countries in West and East Africa to apply for a 6-week fellowship aimed at enhancing their knowledge and skills in evidence-informed policymaking. The fellowship begins with a one-week online course focused on evidence-informed pol
Published: 27 Mar 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 07 May 2025
The WFP Innovation Accelerator is launching the second edition of the Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator (HIA), powered by the Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. HIA aims to support technology-powered solutions addressing pressing challenges faced by vulnerable populations and h
Published: 27 Mar 2025 Type: Entrepreneurs Value: USD $150,000 Deadline: 20 Apr 2025
This new Fellowship programme, launched in September 2021, is run by Professor Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity in the Department of Biology, and her team in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science. It offers NGO, government and business employees working on bio
Published: 27 Mar 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 01 Apr 2025
Code for Africa (CfA) is offering stipend?based fellowships to Six (6) African Wikipedians-in-Residence to empower youth voices and promote a secure digital space through Wikimedia projects. Fellows will amplify youth voices and increase their engagement in SDG 16, and civic technology by
Published: 27 Mar 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 28 Mar 2025
The scholarship programme “Leadership for Africa” (LfA) aims to support the academic qualification and advancement of young refugees and national scholars from Cameroon, Senegal, and Togo at higher education institutions in Germany. In times of conflicts and displacement, this
Published: 26 Mar 2025 Type: Masters Study in: Germany Deadline: 10 Jun 2025
The University of Birmingham is pleased to announce the award of 15 scholarships of £5,000 for international students domiciled in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa who are applying for entry to an undergraduate programme at the University starting September 2025.
Published: 26 Mar 2025 Type: Undergraduate Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 25 Jun 2025
In 2010 alone, a whopping 380,376 African Students, enrolled for studies at an international university, from then to 2020, that number has significantly grown with many African students making plans to study overseas.
Usually, when you check the cost that comes with studying overseas, it is easier for you to opt for a cheaper option, which is studying in your country. Yet, the question remains, if abroad studies are so expensive why then are African Students trooping out to do so? Simple answer, they are going to school on scholarship.
In a bid to make studying abroad easier and cheaper for students in various African countries, the government, universities, companies, foundations, and even individuals, made available schemes such as fully-funded scholarships for African students, which aspiring students like you can take advantage of to fund their studies overseas.
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As a Masters or Ph.D student, you can check out our latest postgraduate scholarships for African students. And if you are an aspiring Bachelor's degree student, to see our undergraduate scholarships for African students to study abroad go to our undergraduate section. We ensure that no one gets left behind in this race for better abroad study opportunities.
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