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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.
Nominations for the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Awards, which recognise exceptional young people from across the Commonwealth, are now open. The awards, held each year in March, celebrate the outstanding contributions young people (aged 15-29) are making towards tackling global issues, improving live
Published: 19 Aug 2022 Type: College School Deadline: 17 Oct 2022
The Université de Montréal introduces a new scholarship program for exemption from additional tuition fees for international students. The goal of this new program is to help the best talent from around the world attend one of the finest francophone research universities in the worl
Published: 19 Aug 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 15 Oct 2022
The Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program is an undergraduate academic, merit program that annually awards full-tuition scholarships and fully-funded, GPSP-sponsored summer programs to 18 incoming freshman students. Early Decision and Regular Decision applicants who submit their BC applications by t
Published: 19 Aug 2022 Type: Undergraduate Deadline: 01 Nov 2022
The Shoprite Group offers comprehensive bursaries to support students studying or intending to study scarce skills such as food science, pharmacy, chartered accounting, logistics as well as information technology, E-commerce and retail business manag
Published: 16 Apr 2024 Type: Undergraduate Deadline: 31 Aug 2022
The Mandela Washington Fellowships for Young African Leaders empowers young people through academic coursework, leadership training, and networking. The Fellowship will provide up to 700 outstanding young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa with the opportunity to hone their skills at a U.S. college or
Published: 17 Aug 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 13 Sep 2022
UMAPS welcome direct applications from faculty members of colleges or universities from Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda. Applicants from other countries in Africa cannot apply directly to UMAPS but need to be nominated b
Published: 17 Aug 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United States Deadline: 15 Oct 2022
We have entered a very exciting time at the Foundation as we scale up our operations across Africa to realize our Young Africa Works strategy. Our role at the Mastercard Foundation is to be a catalyst. Our Young Africa Works strategy focuses on working with others to spur systemic change s
Published: 17 Aug 2022 Type: Internship Deadline: 23 Aug 2022
Do you have a renewable energy project that needs acceleration? Are you in need of project funding? Would you like to build your technical skills and industry knowle
Published: 17 Aug 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 02 Sep 2022
The advent of COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges in Africa’s education system and reinforces the need for fit for context, innovative and scalable solutions in education. DOTSS[1] provides an approach for reorienting Africa’s education and training systems to meet the knowledge, co
Published: 17 Aug 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 15 Sep 2022
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Through the LWF scholarships program LWF works alongside its member churches in developing their capacity to serve effectively in their contexts. The scholarship program helps churches to acquire qualified personnel for spiritual care and diaconal work. The main criteria for a candidate ap
Published: 15 Apr 2024 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 15 Oct 2022
Lex:lead is a group of international lawyers and friends who support economic development focusing on the world’s least developed countries. Lex:lead offers an annual essay competition on topics of law and development to the world’s least developed countries. In this way they transfer
Published: 16 Aug 2022 Type: Contest Deadline: 31 Oct 2022
CWW Tech Africa is empowering the next 1 million young people in digital and tech skills by 2030. CWW Tech Africa was created to empower African youths to be employable and entrepreneurial. Our graduates become mentors, contribute to the CWW Tech Africa community, the tech ecosystem and the world.
Published: 15 Aug 2022 Type: Training Deadline: 21 Aug 2022
Each year The University of Manchester awards Equity and Merit Scholarships to academically excellent students from Sub-Saharan Africa who have the potential to make a significant contribution to sustainable development in their home countries. Across the globe, countries face many developmental
Published: 15 Aug 2022 Type: Masters Deadline: 31 Aug 2022
Applications are open for the TikTok Accelerator Program 2022 for Black Entrepreneurs in the U.S. At TikTok, they believe the Black business community must be seen and heard, and it’s their mission to embrace and empower these voices. Now in its third year, their specially designe
Published: 15 Aug 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 24 Aug 2022
The UNCTAD eTrade for Women Masterclasses are unique empowerment events for women digital entrepreneurs. Applications are open for English-speaking African countries. The rapid spread of digital technologies across Africa is creating many business opportunities. Yet, women entrepreneurs
Published: 15 Aug 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 10 Sep 2022
With its development-oriented postgraduate study programmes, the DAAD promotes the training of specialists from development and newly industrialised countries. Well-trained local experts, who are networked with international partners, play an important part in the sustainable development of their co
Published: 15 Apr 2024 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Germany Deadline: 15 Oct 2022
Ashinaga presents the “Ashinaga Africa Initiative” aiming to provide higher education to 20 brilliant students from Sub-Saharan African countries each year, some of which are among the poorest in the world, and encourage them to become leading professionals in their own countries. We
Published: 15 Aug 2022 Type: Undergraduate Deadline: 20 Jan 2023
We believe apps for everyone should be made by everyone. Research shows that founders from underrepresented communities face unique challenges, especially when starting and leading technology companies. We created Apple Entrepreneur Camp with the goal of supporting these founders and their o
Published: 12 Aug 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 24 Aug 2022
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.
Being the absolute go to website / plug for all things international scholarships for African students, you can now double your efforts on finding suitable online scholarships for African students, by browsing through our impressive compilation of international study opportunities you can easily qualify for.
We believe that money should never be a hindrance for you to further your education, which is why we also have overseas study opportunities that you can benefit from, no matter the type of degree you want to pursue.
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.
ScholarshipTab is a well-rounded platform, and we are committed to bringing you the latest admissions going on in international universities in the top countries that take in the highest number of African students. We have choice scholarships in USA, UK, Japan, Ukraine, Finland, France, Netherlands, and Canada
What are you still waiting for? Start applying for the latest 2020 scholarships immediately, before you miss your flight.
