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.
Global Health Corps (GHC) is excited to launch our new Africa Leadership Accelerator Fellowship, a 9-month, hybrid program designed to strengthen the leadership and management skills of early to mid-career health professionals ages 21-35, working across Sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa Leadership A
Published: 19 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia Deadline: 20 Jun 2025
Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. There are 81 member states, including 54 in Africa (Regional Member Countries).The Internship program is part of a wider Talent Ma
Published: 19 May 2025 Type: Internship Deadline: 31 May 2025
The DAAD Helmut-Schmidt-Programme (known as Public Policy and Good Governance) supports future leaders from developing countries (see list of countries), who want to promote democracy and social justice in their home countries. The programme, which is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, off
Published: 19 May 2025 Type: Masters Study in: Germany Deadline: 31 Jul 2025
The AWARD Climate Action (ACA) Fellowship seeks to achieve a twin goal of increasing the number of African women leading climate change action and catalyze production of climate solutions that work for women smallholders. The Fellowship is designed to address systemic gender inequalitie
Published: 16 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 30 Jun 2025
Are you a youth-led organisation driving solutions to address the intersection of human mobility, climate change, disaster risk reduction, and environmental sustainability? Do you want to strengthen your knowledge on the nexus, expand your impact to implement or scale up your Climate Mobility soluti
Published: 16 May 2025 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 15 Jun 2025
develoPPP Ventures is aimed at young companies, whose innovative business model improves living conditions in a developing or emerging country and who are planning to scale up. Via a matching-funds model, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provides non-dilutiv
Published: 16 May 2025 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Germany Value: € 100,000 Deadline: 30 Jun 2025
We are delighted to offer 3 Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust masters scholarships for eligible overseas fee-paying students starting their studies in September 2025. The University of Sheffield has a strong commitment to international development. One of the themes of our strategy is &ls
Published: 16 May 2025 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 02 Jun 2025
The Western Union Global Fellowship Program is a fully-funded Impact Fellowship, empowering individuals supporting or hailing from refugee, highly-marginalized, or forcibly displaced communities around the globe. Through this experience, Fellows will gain essential skills, resou
Published: 16 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany, India, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States Deadline: 01 Jul 2025
RWTH offers fellowships and travel grants to support research stays of doctoral candidates and postdocs from strategically relevant international universities or research institutions. Funding is provided by the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. The goal of the Adva
Published: 15 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Germany Deadline: 30 Sep 2025
RMI’s Global Women in Clean Energy Fellowship is now accepting applications from women professionals in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Zambia. This fellowship is designed to empower emerging leaders with the skills, networks, and resources needed to drive the clean energy transition in their countries
Published: 14 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Study in: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zambia Deadline: 21 May 2025
The AU Youth Startup Programme is led by the African Union Commission in partnership with Afreximbank and other partners. It supports young African innovators by giving them a platform to grow and connect with key players across the continent. As part of IATF2025 in Algiers, the pr
Published: 14 May 2025 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 30 May 2025
Australia Awards Scholarships are long-term awards administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. They aim to contribute to the development needs of Australia's partner countries in line with bilateral and regional agreements. The study and research opportunities provided by
Published: 14 May 2025 Type: Undergraduate Study in: Australia Deadline: Not Specified
ESO Uplift Programme is a component of the Social and Impact Entrepreneurship (SIE) Project co-funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), implemented by GrowthAfrica in collaboration with the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation(DRK) and the Amahoro Coalition. This transformative
Published: 13 May 2025 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia Deadline: 26 May 2025
Since January 2022, Ashesi University in Ghana and ETH Zurich have been offering a joint Master’s programme in Mechatronic Engineering. 40 students from 7 African countries are currently studying at Ashesi University. A third cohort has been selected and will start their studies in 2024.
Published: 13 May 2025 Type: Masters Study in: Ghana Deadline: Not Specified
Code for Africa (CfA) is offering eight African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) Institutional Fellowships to strengthen the investigative skills of research and media institutions in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal. The programme aims to equip researchers and
Published: 13 May 2025 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 15 May 2025
oad to Annecy 2025 – East Africa edition is a flagship initiative supported by the French Embassy in Kenya and delivered in partnership with the Association of Animation Artists Kenya (A3K), Alliance Française Nairobi (AFN), and The Annecy Internationa
Published: 12 May 2025 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda Deadline: 19 May 2025
In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain campaign, the University of Strathclyde, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is offering four GREAT Scholarships to students in Ghana, Nigeria, India and Pakistan applying for postgraduate programmes in justice and law.
Published: 12 May 2025 Type: Postgraduate Study in: United Kingdom Value: £10,000 Deadline: 27 Jun 2025
Applications are now open for the University of Manchester Black Future Engineering PhD Scholarship 2025. This scholarship is open to students residing in the UK who are eligible for home fees and who identify as black-heritage (encompassing African, Caribbean, and black-mixed heritage).
Published: 09 May 2025 Type: PhD Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified
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.
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