PhD Studentships/ PhD Placements

Vacation Summer Internships/Scholarships

Masters /PhD Studentships for African Students 

Africa

• MOUNAF offers scholarships for students doing MA or PhD study in Africa *
• The African Leadership University offers Mandela 100 scholarships for undergraduate study at ALU Rwanda *
• The Mawazo PhD Scholars Programme offers a research fellowship for women doing PhDs at Kenyan universities
• The African Science Partnership for Intervention Research Excellence (ASPIRE) offers a variety of MA and PhD scholarships around Africa
• Zawadi Africa supports African women who are pursuing undergraduate studies in the US, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya
• The government of Mauritius is offering scholarships to students from AU member states
• The Dolika Banda Scholarship for Zambian women in STEM at the African Leadership University
• The Pan-African University has a number of MA and PhD fellowships
• The Ethiopian Foundation offers scholarships to Ethiopian students
• Fondazione Edu offers scholarships for BA students at the University of Ghana
• The SSRC’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program offers fellowships for PhD students preparing dissertation proposals, writing the dissertation, and completing the dissertation at universities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda
• The ACLS African Humanities Program offers research funding to African PhD students at universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda
• The Institute of Infectious Diseases of Poverty offers PhD scholarships to students studying infectious disease at the University of Ghana, University of Ibadan, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako and Modibbo Adama University of Technology
• The Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique offers funding for MA and PhD students to undertake research in East Africa
• The Jim Ovia Scholarship supports BA and MA students at Nigerian universities
• The ECOWAS Fellowship Programme for masters and PhD students at the University of Lagos and University of Ibadan
• The World Academy of Sciences has similar fellowships available for students doing PhDs in Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico and Pakistan
• The Lagos State Scholarship Board offers funding for BA and MA study in South Africa, India, Ukraine and China to Nigerian citizens
• The Graça Machel Scholarship Programme offers funding for post-graduate study in South Africa and the UK to women from Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa and Zambia
• The MTN Solution Space Fellowships for MBA study at the University of Cape Town
• The Lisa Maskell Fellowship supports graduate study at the University of Stellenbosch
• The Mandela Institute for Development Studies has just launched a new scholarship programme, details TBD
• The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology is offering 10 PhD scholarships for students studying food and nutrition
• The Square Kilometer Array in South Africa offers undergraduate, MA and PhD scholarships in astronomy
• CODESRIA has a selection of scholarships for thesis completion and PhD studies at any public university in South Africa
• The Canon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust provides scholarships to universities in southern Africa and the UK
• The Bank of Tanzania offers BA and MA scholarships at a range of Tanzanian universities
• The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research offers scholarships for students doing the MA in research and public policy at Maseno University, Egerton University, Uganda Christian University, Uganda Martyrs University, University of Dar es Salaam, and Mzumbe University
• The African Economic Research Consortium offers MA and PhD scholarships
• The Regional University Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) offers funding for MSc and PhD students in agriculture at African universities
• The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World offers fellowships for women pursuing PhDs in scientific fields at universities in low income countries
• The Open Society Foundation supports PhD students and professors from Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Sudan and South Sudan through the Civil Society Scholar Awards

Europe

• There are a variety of scholarships for non-European students who would like to do undergraduate or graduate study in Holland *
• Sciences Po offers scholarships for English-language undergraduate and graduate study by African students
• The German Academic Exchange Service has a wide range of scholarships for undergraduate and graduatestudents to study in Germany
• The Netherlands Fellowship Program supports MBA students from Africa and other low-income regions studying at Business School Netherlands
• The University of Amsterdam has a number of scholarships for international students (via Simon Columbus)
• The University of Groningen Talent Grant is open to students from a range of low-income countries doing MA programs
• The Norwegian government provides scholarships for 800 students from low income countries annually through its Quota Scheme
• The Bergen Summer Research School offers stipends to PhD students from many low income countries
• The University of Zurich offers a mobility grant for African students to spend one or two semesters there
• The Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships support PhD and post-doctoral study
• The Kofi Annan Fellowship supports students from low income countries doing an MBA at universities in Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey

UK

• The Standard Bank Derek Cooper Scholarship offers funding for African students pursuing MA study at Oxford, Cambridge, and the LSE
• The University of Manchester offers Equality and Merit scholarships to cover the cost of postgraduate study for students from low income countries
• The Gates Cambridge Scholarship covers the cost of postgraduate study for students who are not UK citizens
• The David and Elaine Potter Foundation offers scholarships for African students doing MA and PhD studies in Politics and International Studies at Cambridge
• A variety of scholarships are available through the Cambridge Africa program
• BG Fellowships are available for Tanzanian students doing MAs in fields relevant to the oil and gas sector at Imperial College London, Aberdeen University, and Robert Gordon University
• The University of Edinburgh offers scholarships for African students to undertake a variety of MA programs
• The African Excellence Fee Waiver is available for students doing graduate study at the University of Glasgow
• Peace, Security and Development Fellowships for African scholars undertaking the MSc Security, Leadership & Society at King’s College London (and also the same fellowship specifically for African women)
• The Program for African Leadership supports the MSc Development Management and MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies at the LSE
• Felix Scholarships support graduate study by students from low income countries at the University of Reading
• The University of Essex offers tuition discounts to African students through the African Scholarship Programme
• The Africa London Nagasaki Fund supports MA study at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of Nagasaki
• The University of Manchester offers merit scholarships to students from Uganda
• The Dreyfus-Weidenfeld Scholarship supports postgraduate study at Oxford for students from low income countries
• Six separate scholarships offered by Oxford for the MSc African Studies
• Commonwealth Scholarships support African students doing the MA in International Human Rights Law at Oxford
• There are also Commonwealth Shared Scholarships for students from African Commonwealth countries doing several types of degrees at SOAS
• The Ferguson Scholarship for African students doing the MA in African Studies, International Studies and Diplomacy, or Social Anthropology of Development at SOAS
• The Cultures of Resistance scholarships for MScs, MAs, and LLMs at SOAS
• The Governance for Development in Africa Initiative offers funding for MSc and PhD students at the Centre of African Studies at SOAS
• African Graduate Fellowships for students doing an MSc in Global Health at UCL
• The Windle Trust offers fellowships for students from Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda who would like to pursue an MA at several different universities in the UK
• The UK’s Chevening Scholarship supports post-graduate study at a range of universities
• The Wellcome Trust offers scholarships for students from low income countries doing MAs in public health and tropical medicine in the UK

US

• The University of Delaware Borel Fellows program offers scholarships for MA study in agriculture to African students *
• The Obama Foundation Scholars program offers fellowships for the MA in International Development Policy at UChicago *
• The American Association of University Women’s International Fellowships support women who are not US citizens and want to pursue graduate study in the US
• Dartmouth offers four-year BA scholarships to students from low income countries through the King Scholar Leadership Program
• Ashinaga Africa supports BA studies abroad by students from a range of Anglophone countries
• Cynthia’s Sisters offers law school scholarships to women from the DRC
• The Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa fellowship program at Georgetown supports women doing the LLM
• Georgetown is offering a fellowship to students from sub-Saharan Africa for the MS in Foreign Service
• The Global Leaders Fellowship at George Washington University offers scholarships for MA and PhD students from low income countries
• The Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program
• The African Women Public Service Fellowship at NYU-Wagner School of Public Policy
• EADB scholarships for math, science and technology graduate programs at Rutgers and NJIT
• The Knight-Hennessey Scholars program offers funding for graduate study at Stanford to students from around the world
• Stanford’s Africa MBA Fellowship
• The Harambee Entrepreneur Alliance offers scholarships for business schools at Stanford, Fletcher, Yale and Oxford
• The American Association of University Women offers scholarships for women who are not US citizens and wish to pursue MAs or PhDs in the US
• The Fulbright Foreign Student program provides funding for students who would like to study in the US at a variety of institutions
• The Richard A. Horovitz Fund offers scholarships to African students currently enrolled at US universities
• The Ibrahim Foundation Scholarships support study at several universities in the US and UK
• Scholars from Sudan and South Sudan are eligible for Banaa scholarships for study in the US
• Students from Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa can apply for one year of study in the US through the Community College Initiative Program
• The Aspen New Voices Fellowship offers a year-long training program for development experts from low-income countries in Africa and elsewhere
• The Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, through the US State Department
• The Dag Hammarskjöld fund covers the expenses of journalists from low income countries who travel to New York to cover the annual UN General Assembly session
• The United States Institute of Peace offers four-month fellowships through the Sudanese and South Sudanese Youth Leaders Program
• Yale’s Young African Scholars Program is a weeklong leadership program for secondary school students from Ghana and Ethiopia

Other Resources

• The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World offers four-year PhD funding for study at a variety of institutions *
• The Hegg Hoffet Fund provides grants to female graduate students who have been displaced by conflict
• The Aga Khan Foundation offers postgraduate fellowships to students from low income countries
• Schwartzman Scholars supports students doing a one-year MA in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University
• The Australia Awards support students from a variety of African countries who would like to study in Australia
• The African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship Program supports students from South Africa and Senegal doing MAs in public finance, public policy or public administration at Canadian universities
• Microsoft’s 4Afrika scholarships support African students enrolled at the online University of the People
• The MasterCard Foundation provides scholarships for African students to universities around the world
• The Association of African Universities has an internship program for students at African universities
• Faculty for the Future offers PhD scholarships for women from low income countries in the STEM fields (via John Quattrochi)
• The WorldFish Centre and IDRC have a really large (if now slightly outdated) list of scholarships, fellowships and post-docs (via Jon Harle, who also has his own great list of scholarships)
• Melina Platas Izama, Zainab Usman, and Ken Opalo all have excellent scholarship lists as well