As the year comes to a close, it’s the perfect time to explore scholarship opportunities that can help fund your educational journey in 2025. Whether you’re an undergraduate or a postgraduate student, securing a scholarship can significantly reduce financial burdens and open doors to new opportunities. In this blog, we’ve compiled a list of 22 scholarships with approaching deadlines that you won’t want to miss. Take a look and apply before it’s too late!
The program aims to support students’ field studies and offer an opportunity to gain knowledge and experience beyond the regular course of study. In the late 1990s, to help offset the trend of declining or consolidated botany programs at colleges and universities the Garden Club of America’s Scholarship Committee added a proposal for a summer scholarship in field botany to its list of possible new offerings. Beginning in 2000, Mrs. Henry Streeter, an ardent horticulturist and member of the North Shore Garden Club of Massachusetts, generously offered to fund this opportunity.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 1
Environmental Fellows Program 2025. The Harvard University Center for the Environment created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard’s extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department while also strengthening connections across the University’s academic disciplines.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 13
The Environmental Fellows Program (EFP) at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) is a 12-week summer fellowship opportunity that seeks to diversify the environmental field by cultivating the career aspirations of master’s and doctoral students from historically underrepresented groups by connecting students to work opportunities in environmental nonprofits, grant makers, and government sectors.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 7
The Africa Scholarship Programme (ASP) offers talented and motivated students from Africa the unique opportunity to pursue a Master’s degree at Wageningen University and to support capacity building in Africa.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 1
The SI Scholarship Pioneering Women in STEM is an academic scholarship provided for full-time, one- or two-year, master’s studies in designated programmes in Sweden.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 15
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program was established at CMU- Africa in 2016. The program provides generous financial, social, and academic support for students whose talent and promise exceed their financial resources.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 15 / January 15
With support from its “Special Research Fund” (BOF) Ghent University grants PhD “sandwich” scholarships to promising PhD students from Global South countries who wish to carry out half of their PhD research at Ghent University (‘North’) and half at a university in the Global South (‘South’). Ghent University only finances the part of the research that will be carried out in Ghent (24 months). The candidate must have full-time funding for the other 24 months of research to be carried out in the South.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 19
According to an agreement between the Alliance of International Science Organizations
(ANSO), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and The World Academy of Sciences
(TWAS/UNESCO) for the advancement of science in developing countries, up to 40 students/scholars from developing countries will be sponsored to study in China for doctoral degrees for up to 4 years.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 15
Environmental Fellows Program 2025. The Harvard University Center for the Environment created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard’s extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department while also strengthening connections across the University’s academic disciplines.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 13
For more than 40 years, the SME Education Foundation has been a leader in supporting the next generation of manufacturing and engineering talent. The scholarship program awards millions of dollars to hundreds of graduating high school seniors and current college students pursuing an associate or bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, engineering or related discipline.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 1
Awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Richard J. Van Loon Scholarship Committee to an outstanding international student from an African country. Eligible recipients will be full-time students proceeding from one year to another in any program of study at Carleton University. Consideration will be given to students in financial need.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 1
The scholarship is aimed for people who have a cultural idea, such as art, music, research etc, related to the UNESCO World Heritage list and are interested to connect the World Heritage site Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland with one or more sites around the World in a cultural or artistic way.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 16
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The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) invites applications for their ESC Postdoctoral Fellowships to be based at South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP) institutions, which includes the University of Bath.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 20
The Centre of African Studies is delighted to announce the Nyerere Scholarship for an applicant to their MSc in Africa and International Development.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 28
The full-time, four-semester program offers an unparalleled mix of research, lectures and practical experience and prepares students for communications and media industry careers. The interdisciplinary program curriculum covers a multitude of topics, such as media and development, journalism, communication science and media management.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 15
Education Development Trust’s Tim Morris Award offers financial support to a PhD student in the field of general education to support field research in a low- or low-middle income Country.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 31
Three scholarships are offered to support the training and development of the next generation of leaders in global health and strengthen the capacity of health systems and health-related research in Africa. These highly competitive scholarships are available to applicants intending to study on a one-year, full-time, London-based (face-to-face) MSc programme at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 5
The Chinese Government is offering scholarships for South African students to study at Chinese institutions starting in the 2025/2026 academic year. The Department of Higher Education and Training (the Department) is responsible for nominations for the Chinese Government scholarship programme.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 24
The Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships (QECS) offer a unique opportunity to study a two-year Master’s degree in a low or middle-income Commonwealth country.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 14
Starting in 2025-2026, the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG) will offer the African Water Corridor Scholarship for two excellent Sub-Saharan Africa students in the Master programme Environmental Engineering, track Water Resources Engineering.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 15
At the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of TU Delft a number of full scholarships are available every year forexcellent international applicants. Starting in 2024-2025, the Faculty TPM will offer the TU Delft Scholarship for Water Governance for one student in any of the Master programmes MOT, EPA or CoSEM.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 1
The iF Design Student Award is one of the most important design prizes for students from all over the world, with about 10,000 submissions each year. Together with their Sponsors, iF Design provides a platform for students and their future-oriented concepts. Winners receive international acclaim and the best concepts earn a share of the 50.000 EUR prize money.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 5
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