Scholarships for Kenyan Students
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13 scholarships found
Allan and Nesta Ferguson Masters Scholarships from African and Indian scholars.
THREE Ferguson scholarships for September 2026 are now available. Each candidate can look to receive full tuition cover (value of £22,500) exclusively available to students from Africa and India for the 2026/27 academic year. With £6,000 additional contribution towards living costs. These scholarships are supported by the Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust who are dedicated to improving educational opportunities for students who would not otherwise be able to consider studying in the UK.
Environmental Engineering MSc
Tailored for aspiring engineers, this innovative program equips students with cutting-edge technological tools essential for tackling pressing environmental challenges and pioneering transformative technologies. It not only focuses on environmental engineering but also prepares graduates for a wide array of career opportunities across various sectors, including renewable energy, sustainable design, and environmental policy. By fostering interdisciplinary skills and practical experience, the program empowers graduates to become leaders in creating sustainable solutions for a better future.
SLE Postgraduate Program "International Cooperation for Sustainable Development"
In today’s world of international cooperation, strong analytical, methodological and communication skills are crucial in addition to technical expertise. In addition, a value-oriented attitude is becoming increasingly important. The SLE degree program aims to help prepare you for the challenges of the profession: Professional expertise in development policy: Make well-founded contributions and actively contribute your knowledge to advisory processes. Holistic thinking and action: Learn to understand complex interrelationships and to design, manage and evaluate projects at different levels. Effective cooperation and partnership: Move confidently within cooperation structures and actively shape them in a spirit of partnership. Critical self-reflection and intercultural sensitivity: Critically reflect on your skills and your role in the professional field and act sensitively in different social contexts. Job entry support: Define your career paths and goals, get strategies and access to our unique SLE network for your professional development.
ARUA Early Career Research Fellowships
The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Mastercard Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is launching this Early-Career Research Fellowship program. The initiative will fund up to forty-two (42) early-career researchers to conduct globally competitive research at the host and affiliated institutions of ARUA’s thirteen (13) Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and the twenty-two (22) Clusters of Research Excellence (CoREs). Each fellowship will have a duration of six months, to be undertaken between March 2026 and February 2027. There will be only two commencement dates for the awards: March 2026 and September 2026. Candidates may select their preferred fellowship period: • The fellowship period for option 1 runs from March to August 2026. The deadline for application for option 1 is 22nd January 2026. • The fellowship period for option 2 is September 2026 to February 2027. The deadline for application for option 2 is 15th July 2026. At least 70% of the fellowships are reserved for female candidates, and applicants must be no older than 35 years at the time of application. The program aims to enhance the capacity of early-career researchers at African universities by providing them with time away from teaching duties at their home institutions to collaborate 2 with highly experienced and distinguished researchers at ARUA CoEs or the Africa-Europe CoREs. Each CoE or CoRE is expected to host research fellows from countries other than its own.
Schwarzman Scholars
Schwarzman Scholars are selected from an international pool of distinguished candidates. Prospective Scholars are expected to demonstrate academic excellence, exceptional results in their field and outstanding leadership qualities.
Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
The University of Pretoria (UP) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation has been offering scholarships for high-achieving African students who study at undergraduate and postgraduate levels since January 2014. The Foundation will entered a new phase in January 2024, and it targets academically talented young people facing economic and social barriers, inclusive of those living with disability in Africa and those who are internally displaced/refugees that will contribute to the transformation of the continent through their knowledge, skills, attitudes and values evidenced by their leadership. Community service and internships are essential components of the programme. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program offers a full scholarship to selected students who have been admitted to study towards a postgraduate degree at UP. Graduates must return to their home countries upon completion of their studies and give back to their communities.
Senior Researcher: Global Economic Governance
The Researcher / Senior Researcher position will contribute to the Institute for Economic Justice’s (IEJ) Global Economic Governance (GEG) programme, with a focus on international financial architecture. The role combines high-level research, policy development, stakeholder engagement, and advocacy, supporting IEJ’s work to advance progressive economic transformation in South Africa, Africa, and globally. The successful candidate will engage with national, regional, and global policy processes (including the G20, African Union, and BRICS), contributing to IEJ’s efforts to advance a more just international financial architecture. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of research, policy, and advocacy on some of the most pressing issues in global economic governance, contributing to real-time policy debates and outcomes.
2027 MEXT Scholarship for Kenyan nationals
The MEXT Scholarship, officially known as the Monbukagakusho Scholarship, is a fully funded award offered by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to international students seeking to study in Japan. It covers full tuition, a monthly stipend of around ¥117,000 for graduate students, and round-trip airfare, with no bond or repayment obligation attached. It is available to undergraduate, Masters, PhD, and research students, and Kenya has an active quota administered through the Japanese Embassy in Nairobi. There are two main entry routes. The embassy recommendation route involves applying through the Japanese Embassy in your country and includes written exams and an interview. The university recommendation route involves securing a willing supervisor at a Japanese university first, then applying through that institution, and is generally less competitive despite being less widely known. Program durations typically run three years for a Masters degree, including one year of Japanese language training, and four years for a PhD.
MPhil/PhD Studentship – Pan-African Frontiers: Reparative Futures and Global Order
SOAS University of London invites applications for one fully funded MPhil/PhD studentship linked to the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project Pan-African Frontiers: Reparative Futures and the Reimagining of Global Order, led by Dr Daniel Mulugeta and hosted by the SOAS Centre for Pan-African Studies (CPAS) in the Department of Politics and International Studies
AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme
Fellows will be affiliated with the University of Oxford for 12 months, including ten months of virtual engagement and a two month in-person visit to Oxford between April to June (Trinity term). During the Fellowship, AfOx Fellows are associated with a Department and a College within the University. To apply for a fellowship, all applicants must have an Oxford-based researcher named as their collaborator on their application. AfOx fellowships are offered through a range of partnerships which are listed below. To apply for the fellowship please read the partner description below and align your application to the partners. Applicants for the improving equitable access to healthcare fellowship can apply to work with a collaborator in any Oxford department but will need to have a project in the area of improving equitable access to healthcare in low- and middle-income countries.
Multiple PhD Positions in AI and Machine Learning
All positions are in the Machine Learning subgroup of the Section for Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence (DTAI), which is part of the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven. The DTAI lab is one of the leading research groups for machine learning, artificial intelligence and data mining. DTAI’s machine learning group currently has six faculty members located in Leuven (Hendrik Blockeel, Jesse Davis, Luc De Raedt, Tias Guns, Giuseppe Marra, Siegfried Nijssen), two research managers (Wannes Meert and Jessa Bekker) and more than 10 post-docs and 35 doctoral students. The Machine Learning group follows an artificial intelligence approach to data analysis and decision making. It investigates a wide variety of machine learning and data science problems. It mostly concentrates on problems that involve complex and structured data and background knowledge. It has expertise in areas such as Learning and Reasoning, Automated Data Science, Learning Constraints and Optimisation Criteria, (Constrained) Clustering, Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence, Supervised Learning, Verification and Machine Learning. The group is applying its expertise in areas such as Sports Analytics, Anomaly Detection, Sensor data, and Action and Activity Learning
Astra Fellowship
Astra is a fully funded, 5 month, in-person program at Constellation’s Berkeley research center. Fellows advance frontier AI safety projects with guidance from expert mentors and dedicated research management and career support from Constellation’s team. Over 80% of Astra’s first cohort are now working full-time in AI safety roles in organizations such as Redwood Research, METR, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, and the UK AI Security Institute. This round, we want to go further: placing even more people into the highest-impact roles, and helping fellows launch new initiatives to tackle urgent but neglected problems.
Google PhD Fellowship program
Google PhD Fellowships directly support graduate students as they pursue their PhD. Nurturing and maintaining strong relations with the academic community is a top priority at Google. The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields. Fellowships support promising PhD candidates of all backgrounds who seek to influence the future of technology. Our research teams impact technology used by people all over the world and we encourage people of a wide range of backgrounds to apply. We currently offer fellowships in Africa, Australia, Canada, East Asia, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United States.