Undergraduate Cybersecurity Scholarships in the UK for Nigerian Students

Is a fully funded undergraduate scholarship realistic for a Nigerian student who wants to study cybersecurity in the UK? On the university pages we could read, the answer is no: the awards are partial fee reductions. They still matter, and they add up. This guide sets out the ones we could verify for 2027 entry, and what they do to the cost.

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Awards we could read

UniversityAwardAmount and conditions
LancasterUndergraduate International Regional Scholarship£3,000 off tuition for each year of study, for international students from 12 eligible countries including Nigeria, starting in 2027. Lancaster says you are automatically considered if you are an international fee-paying applicant
LancasterUndergraduate International Excellence Scholarship£3,000 off tuition for each year of study for high-achieving international applicants who make Lancaster their firm choice. Lancaster says it can be combined with the Regional Scholarship
AbertayAbertay International ScholarshipUp to £12,000 for new international undergraduates, awarded as a £3,000 deduction from annual tuition fees; Abertay also guarantees that your fee will not rise during the four-year degree
GloucestershireUndergraduate Merit Scholarship£7,500 as a tuition fee waiver split over the three years of fees; applicants must be international fee payers and self-funding. The page we read gave a 9 July 2026 acceptance date, so check the 2027 deadline

What the awards do to the cost

As a simple illustration using the £17,950 a year international fee listed for these courses (on Abertay’s course page for 2026/27, and in a UCAS listing for Gloucestershire’s 2026 entry) and the awards above, Abertay’s four years at £17,950 would total £71,800 before the award, so £12,000 is about 17% of it. Gloucestershire’s three years at the same listed fee total £53,850, so £7,500 is about 14%. At Lancaster, if you qualified for both awards, the reductions would total up to £18,000 over three years. These are fee reductions only: they do not cover living costs or the visa funds you must show. Our calculator shows the funds.

Why the well-known awards do not apply

Chevening funds a one-year master’s degree, according to Chevening’s own page, so it is not an undergraduate route. GREAT Scholarships are for one-year taught master’s courses, as our GREAT guide explains. For an undergraduate degree you are looking at university awards like those above.

How to approach it, in our reading

  1. Check each shortlisted university’s scholarship page for your entry year, because amounts, countries and deadlines change.
  2. Read the conditions: several awards need you to be international fee-paying and self-funding, and some require you to accept the offer by a set date or make the university your firm choice.
  3. Add the award to your funds plan only after you hold it in writing.
  4. If your grades are short of the offer, see our guide to foundation years and check whether international students can take them.

Correction, November 2026

An earlier version of this guide opened in the first person, said a cybersecurity BSc typically costs £22,000 to £32,000 a year, named Hertfordshire and Sheffield Hallam as offering foundation-year scholarship pathways, and gave a table of typical award values. We could not support the fee range, the named pathways or the table, and the listed fee at the two universities we checked is lower than that range, so they were removed. The opening was rewritten.

What we could not confirm

We did not verify scholarships at other universities, any Nigeria-specific government or private schemes, or whether each award applies to the cybersecurity course in particular. Check the course and the award together.

Sources and checks

Figures checked: November 2026. This is general information, not financial advice. Scholarship terms change each year, so confirm them on each university’s page.

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