Covenant University International Excellence Scholarship

The scholarship is open only to applicants who hold citizenship other than Nigerian and who have been offered on-campus admission into any of Covenant University's taught or research Master's programs, spanning the university's colleges of business, engineering, science and technology, leadership and development studies, and law. There is no restriction to a specific discipline, which makes it accessible to international applicants across a wide range of postgraduate fields.

The award is a partial-to-full tuition fee waiver rather than a fully funded package: it does not cover accommodation, feeding, flights, or living expenses, so admitted scholars should budget for those separately. The waiver percentage is tiered strictly by the strength of the applicant's first degree result, rewarding academically stronger international candidates with proportionally larger discounts on Covenant's postgraduate tuition, which is charged in a currency and structure specific to international (non-Nigerian) students.

Because eligibility is assessed at the point of admission rather than through a separate competitive shortlist, the practical path to this scholarship is to apply for Master's admission through Covenant's School of Postgraduate Studies portal, indicate interest in the International Excellence Scholarship on the application form, and submit the required transcript and personal statement alongside the regular postgraduate admission documents. Foreign-trained applicants must also have their certificates and transcripts verified through Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Education and the relevant embassy in Nigeria, a requirement that applies to all international postgraduate applicants at Covenant, not just scholarship applicants.

For Pakistani and other international students considering an MBBS-adjacent or professional Master's route through West Africa, Covenant University is one of Nigeria's most internationally ranked private universities, and this scholarship is a rare concrete, verifiable tuition-reduction pathway into it, as opposed to the many generic 'contact the university' claims that circulate for other Nigerian institutions.