Chevening Scholarship 2024/2025: Chevening Scholarship early this year calls for applications from eligibly qualified candidates for the Masters Program (MSc) and Postgraduate (PhD) program scholarships to certain specialities at the selected universities in United Kingdom under its Common Wealth Scholarship Scheme for the 2024/2025 academic session.
Brief Info About The Chevening Scholarship
The Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship is an initiative sponsored and fully funded the Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme in their aim to to contribute to developmental needs of Chevening eligible countries by providing training for skilled and qualified professionals and academics who would not have been able to find their self for study in the United Kingdom.
The Chevening Scholarship was initiated to provide opportunities to benefit individuals from a different pool of knowledge and facilities that are of first class standard in a recognized and selected institutions across the world.
Benefits Attached to the Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship
Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship covers a lot of expenses which are listed as follows:
- The scholarship covers the payment of flight tickets and all other travel expenses.
- The scholarship also covers the health insurance of each beneficiary.
- The scholarship covers the payment of tuition/school fee including bench fees (wherever it is applicable)
- The scholarship covers the provision of allowances that further takes care of living expenses and rent expenses.
Selection Criteria for The Scholarship
Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship is a highly rated and competitive one, hence, only applicants with outstanding performances across the board and disciplines are selected as beneficiaries.
Successful applicants shall be picked based on the submitted or received qualifications.
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Only the top candidates for each discipline from each state of the federation will be invited for an interview where a screening committee will be constituted to assess applications using the below mentioned criteria:
Checking Academic performances of applicants as evidenced by the acquired degrees, full academic transcripts from their various institutions and other professional qualifications acquired
Checking Relevant publications to be referenced by applicant (this is only applicable to PhD applicants)
Checking the Membership of professional bodies and it’s validity.
The viability and relevance of the study/research plan.
Relevance of previous studies to any field of study and the proposed course/research
Requirements Needed for Applying for the Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship 2024
The requirements needed for application varies department on the whether you are applying for Master Degree (MSc) or a Postgraduate Doctorate Degree (Ph.D.)
Requirements for Both MSc and PhD Students
Applicants must be from the Chevening Scholarship eligible nation.
You can check the list of eligible countries below:
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Overseas Territories
- Brunei
- Burma
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Cayman Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- DR Congo
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Libya
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Malaysia
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montserrat
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Palestinian Territories
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Island
- Republic of Congo
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Southern Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- St Helena
- St Kitts & Nevis
- St Lucia
- St Vincent & Grenadines
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Requirements for MSc
- Applicants must possess a minimum of Second Class Upper (2.1) division in their first degree or a Second Class Lower (2.2) coupled with other relevant industry training and experience.
- Applicants must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service (NYSC) with extends for a period of 1 year irrespective of the course of study.
- Applicants must possess the ability to use computer system for some basic works (must be computer literate)
- Applicants must possess 5 O/level credits, including English Language and Mathematics.
- Applicants must draft a statement of purpose, as concise as possible (maximum of 500 words) stating the reason(s) for the proposed study, its relevance and viability to the industry and its expected impact on national development and growth.
- Applicants must have a National Identity Number (NIN) and will be required to have verified it (NIMC verification charges apply) before applying for the scholarship.
- Applicants must be maximum of 30 years of age for males and 35 years of age for Females.
Requirements for PhD
- Applicants must have undergone the mandatory National Youth Service (NYSC) which extends for a period of 1 year.
- Applicants must be familiar with the use of computer system for some basic stuff (must be a computer literate)
- Applicants must possess 5 O/level credits, including English Language and Mathematics.
- Applicants must have attain a minimum of Second Class Lower (2.2) division in their first degree and a good post-graduate degree result.
- Applicants must have a research proposal relevant to the oil and gas industry (of not more than five pages) to include: Topic, introduction, objective, methodology and mode of data collection.
- All lecturing applicants must provide a letter from their Vice Chancellors of their respective institution confirming that they are not in receipt of any other scholarships.
- Applicants must have a National Identity Number (NIN) and will be required to have verified it (NIMC verification charges apply) before applying for the scholarship.
How To Apply For The Chevening Scholarship 2024
- Visit the official website and following the procedures that follows.
- Create an application or applicant account and fill in the details required.
- An instruction will be sent to the provided email on how to login and set a password
- You can now navigate through your application profile and upload the required documents.
Application deadline for the Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship
The deadline for the application of the Common Wealth Postgraduate Scholarship for the 2024/2024 session is yet to be announced.
Conclusion
The Chevening Scholarship is open for Postgraduate Students who are interested in receiving a scholarship award to aid their academics.
If you’re part of this category, kindly navigate to the scholarship portal and apply for the scholarship now before the deadline date for the closure of applications.
