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The major government, foundation and university funders that sponsor African Bachelors, Masters and PhD students each year — each with a deep-dive guide and the live, currently-open opportunities from our database.
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China
China's flagship CSC programme — fully funded Bachelors, Masters and PhD scholarships at 280+ Chinese universities.
Read the provider guide →Japan
Japan's flagship MEXT scholarship — fully funded undergraduate, research and teacher-training awards at Japanese universities.
Read the provider guide →South Korea
South Korea's flagship GKS programme — fully funded undergraduate and graduate scholarships at top Korean universities.
Read the provider guide →Australia
Australia's flagship development scholarship — fully funded Masters at Australian universities for emerging African leaders.
Read the provider guide →France
France's flagship Eiffel Excellence Scholarship — Masters and PhD funding for top international students at French institutions.
Read the provider guide →Sweden
Sweden's flagship SISGP scholarship — fully funded one-year Masters at Swedish universities for emerging African leaders.
Read the provider guide →United Kingdom
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's flagship Cambridge scholarship — full Masters and PhD funding at the University of Cambridge.
Read the provider guide →United Kingdom
The world's oldest international scholarship — fully funded postgraduate study at the University of Oxford.
Read the provider guide →China
Tsinghua University's flagship one-year Masters in Global Affairs — fully funded for emerging global leaders.
Read the provider guide →United States
Stanford University's flagship multi-disciplinary graduate scholarship — full funding for any Stanford graduate degree.
Read the provider guide →Canada
Canada's flagship doctoral scholarship — CAD 50,000 per year for three years at any Canadian university.
Read the provider guide →Netherlands
Netherlands' flagship development scholarship — fully funded short courses and Masters at Dutch institutions.
Read the provider guide →A provider — also called a sponsor or funder — is the organisation that pays for a scholarship. It can be a national government (CSC, MEXT, GKS), a foundation (Gates, Rhodes, Mastercard), a university (Stanford, Tsinghua, Oxford) or a regional body (European Commission, Commonwealth).
Each provider sets its own eligibility, funding, deadline and selection process. Knowing the provider helps you understand what the scholarship will actually fund, who you'll be representing, and whether the application is run by an embassy, a university or a foundation.
Most accept applicants from across Africa, but several (Australia Awards, Orange Knowledge, MEXT Embassy track, Commonwealth) restrict eligibility to a defined country list. Each provider page on this site states the current eligible countries.
We track every provider against its official sponsor domain. If a programme moves, closes or changes terms, the change flows through to the listings on each provider page within 24 hours.