Funded Study Openings for Nigerians: October 2026 List

Every opening from this week's drop, with its official page only.

Opening	What it is	The date that matters	Official page
Oxford Clarendon, 2027 entry	Course fees and a grant for living expenses for the length of your course, with no restriction on nationality or field of study, and all full-time and part-time master's and DPhil courses eligible. There is no separate scholarship form: you are considered automatically when you apply for your course	Your course's own December or January deadline, printed on the course page	University of Oxford, Clarendon Fund
Commonwealth Master's Scholarship, 2027/28	Funded by the UK government through the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, for a one-year UK master's starting September 2027. Full approved tuition, £1,712 a month (about ₦3.04m) and £2,000 a month in the London area (about ₦3.56m), approved airfare from your home country to the UK and return	Closes 16:00 UK time, Tuesday 20 October 2026. Outcomes are expected by July 2027	cscuk.fcdo.gov.uk, Commonwealth Master's Scholarships
Gates Cambridge, 2027 entry	The full University Composition Fee, £23,152 a year to live on (about ₦41m), one economy flight each way, visa costs and the health surcharge. Around 70 scholarships a year, about two-thirds of them for PhDs	8 December 2026 or 6 January 2027, decided by your course in the Cambridge course directory, not by you	Gates Cambridge, the timeline
Russia Open Doors	Tuition-free master's, PhD and postdoctoral places under the government quota, plus a monthly university stipend. You budget the flights, housing, insurance and visa yourself. It is won on an online olympiad in your subject, sat in English or Russian	Registration runs to 1 November 2026	Open Doors, the rules
KAUST, Fall 2027 entry	A graduate science and technology university in Saudi Arabia. Its admissions page states that over 90% of admitted students receive full tuition support, a monthly stipend, housing, medical coverage and relocation assistance	Applications opened 28 September 2026 and close 3 January 2027, with decisions due 14 February 2027. The university marks these dates as tentative	KAUST admission timelines

Still open from an earlier drop

Opening	What it is	The date that matters	Official page
Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters 2027	The EU pays €1,400 a month (about ₦2.2m) for up to 24 months, plus participation costs, travel and visa, for a master's across two or three European countries. A bachelor's degree in any field is the entry requirement	Most programmes open October 2026 and close between then and January 2027	Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters, students
DAAD EPOS master's scholarships 2027/2028	€992 a month (about ₦1.56m), insurance and a travel allowance, most courses with no tuition, for a degree holder in the upper third of the class with two years of related work experience	Per course, mostly August to November 2026; the Heidelberg international health master's closes 15 October 2026	The DAAD EPOS entry
Ireland Health Care Assistant, General Employment Permit	The employer applies for the permit and pays its fee; the legal minimum is €32,691 a year (about ₦51.5m) and €16.12 an hour. You need a QQI Level 5 in health and social care, or an employer commitment that you will complete it within two years	Rolling; no "quota filled" notice for care workers on the department's page as of its 26 August 2026 update	General Employment Permit

The full kits: Oxford's course deadline, the fee and the ten-week calendar are in the Oxford pack. The Commonwealth eligibility rule, the three-part application and the nominating body are in the Commonwealth pack. Gates Cambridge, Open Doors and four more windows, with what each one pays and how it is won, are in the funded calendar pack. The KAUST dates, the statement structure and the checklist are in the KAUST pack. The Erasmus Mundus catalogue and the service-year calendar are in the Erasmus Mundus pack, the DAAD course list and the reference email are in the EPOS pack, and Ireland's qualification rule and family rules are in the Ireland permit pack.

The one rule of this page: every scholarship above is applied for on the funder's or the university's own site, in an account you create with your own email address. Oxford charges its own application fee, £75 for a taught course and £20 for a research course, and it is paid to the university. Beyond a university's own published fee, anybody charging you for a "form" or a "slot" on these is running a scam.

Naira figures on this page use the rates of 3 October 2026 (GBP ₦1,778, EUR ₦1,513, CAD ₦943, USD ₦1,344), rounded. Nobody can promise a scholarship, including us. Only funders and immigration authorities decide.

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