Education Bursary Award (Federal Scholarships Board)

• Education Bursary Award, PhD: N750,000 (previously N500,000).
• Education Bursary Award, MSc: N600,000 (previously N400,000).
• Education Bursary Award, Undergraduate: N450,000 (previously N300,000).
• Education Bursary Award, NCE: N450,000 (previously N300,000).
• Vocational / Medicine, Dentistry, Surgery, Nursing and Physiotherapy: Undergraduate N450,000 and HND N450,000 (each previously N300,000).

1. Go to the Federal Ministry of Education Scholarship Portal and sign up for a student account.
2. Create your profile, browse the available scholarships and submit your application with the required documents.
3. Your application goes through verification (NIMC, academic records, institutional validation), then panel screening and scoring.
4. Approved awards are disbursed directly to beneficiaries. Portal support: [email protected].

The portal describes multi-level verification (NIMC, academic records, institutional validation) followed by expert panel screening and scoring. The allocation framework prioritises STEMM and the Social Sciences and reserves 5% for students with disabilities. No criteria specific to the Education Bursary Award are published.