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.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the specializing Masters Scholarship in Sustainable Management of Resources and Cultural Heritage for Local Development. The programme is supported by the IHEA Foundation – Italian Higher Education with Africa to supp
Published: 18 Aug 2021 Type: Masters Study in: Italy Deadline: 05 Sep 2021
This program is a direct effort to address the lack of US work experience barriers that skilled immigrant professionals face and racial and economic disparities in the field. The initiative will place ten talented, diverse, and multilingual Black immigrant professionals from Africa and the Caribbean
Published: 12 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 27 Aug 2021
UN Women has partnered with the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), the African Women Leaders’ Network (Tanzania and Malawi Chapters); the Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA); The Association of Women in Media (Malawi); and the MISA Chapters in Tanzania and Malawi, to promote and r
Published: 11 Aug 2021 Type: Contest Deadline: 15 Oct 2021
The Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships form a selective programme designed to mentor future African leaders. Through this annual fellowship programme, we seek to deepen and broaden our growing network which continues to contribute its skills and learning to a better Africa. The Fellowships offer t
Published: 11 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Switzerland Deadline: 15 Oct 2021
We invite applications for postdoctoral fellowships from scholars who are within eight years of receiving the PhD degree, who are citizens of Sub-Saharan African countries, and who are currently working at universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda. Women are especially encour
Published: 11 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 03 Dec 2021
The Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH) at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) is launching a 12-month fellowship for refugees and other displaced scholars who are interested in graduate-level study in the field of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (RFMS). It will be run in collaboration with
Published: 12 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Aug 2021
The U.S. Mission to the African Union, Addis Ababa (USAU), Bureau of African Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program focused on the linkages between arts, culture, and heritage in the United States and in A
Published: 12 Aug 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: United States Deadline: 21 Aug 2021
For the Africa Program Fellowship 2021, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a?premier international affairs?think tank with headquarters in Washington and offices in Beirut, Beijing, Brussels, Moscow, and New Delhi, seeks a Fellow or Senior Fellow for its Washington-b
Published: 15 Apr 2024 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 27 Aug 2021
Applications are open for the Africa Institute Global Africa Translation Fellowship 2022. This fellowship is part of the Africa Institute’s African Languages and Translation Program. The fellowship welcomes applications from across the Global South for a grant to complete translations of works
Published: 09 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 Oct 2021
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presents up to six Georg Forster Research Awards each year to internationally outstanding researchers from developing and transition countries in recognition of their academic record to date. The research award was named for renowned German ethnologist Georg For
Published: 09 Aug 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Germany Deadline: 31 Oct 2021
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) was established in 1988 as a public not-for-profit organization devoted to the advancement of economic policy research and training in Africa. The Consortium’s mandate and strategic intent is built on the basis that sustained development in sub-S
Published: 06 Aug 2021 Type: PhD Deadline: 25 Aug 2021
Caring for the injured is essential. It must be a priority in the development of strategies to curb the devastating effects of orthopaedic injuries. To help address this problem, the AO Alliance and the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) have developed a scholarshi
Published: 06 Aug 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 30 Oct 2021
The Africa Institute welcomes applications for the Okwui Enwezor Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Culture, Performance Studies and Critical Humanities; Fatema Mernissi Postdoctoral Fellow in Social and Cultural Studies; Ali A. Mazrui Senior Fellow in Global African Studies. The Africa Institute anno
Published: 05 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 12 Dec 2021
From September 2018, Apolitical Academy’s Southern Africa Fellows will participate in a 9-month long programme, covering seven residential weekend seminars in locations around the region. The seminars will be led by a combination of skilled moderators and experienced government and politica
Published: 05 Aug 2021 Type: Training Deadline: 31 Aug 2021
Udacity and Access Bank are awarding 1000 Access Bank Udacity Advance Africa Scholarships in 2021 to empower people in Africa to advance their careers with in-demand skills. Udacity is collaborating with Access Bank, a multinational commercial bank, to empower peopl
Published: 05 Aug 2021 Type: Training Deadline: 31 Aug 2021
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: 05 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Study in: United States Deadline: 15 Sep 2021
This course has been developed in close collaboration with leading clinicians, veterinarians and industrial partners in vaccinology. The Programme provides state-of-the-art teaching in both human and veterinary vaccinology, drawing on the experience of the Jenner Institute at the U
Published: 04 Aug 2021 Type: Training Deadline: 31 Aug 2021
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, is financing the Ibrahim Leadership Fellowship position. Established in 2006, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation aims to support good governance and great leadership in Africa. The Foundation works to: Stimulate debate on good governance; Provide criteria by which cit
Published: 04 Aug 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 14 Oct 2021
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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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.
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