{"id":794,"date":"2026-06-30T07:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoolnews.com.ng\/scholarship\/nnpc-snepco-national-university-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:09:28","slug":"nnpc-snepco-national-university-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoolnews.com.ng\/scholarship\/nnpc-snepco-national-university-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"NNPC\/SNEPCo National University Scholarship: How to Apply"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria"],"acf":{"host_country":"Nigeria (undergraduate) \/ United Kingdom (postgraduate)","host_school":"NNPC &amp; Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Co. 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Both are free to apply via Scholastica.<\/p>","eligibility":"<ul><li><strong>Undergraduate:<\/strong> Nigerian citizen, <strong>200 level<\/strong> in a federal or state university, NUC-accredited course (STEM preferred), CGPA of at least <strong>3.5\/5.0<\/strong>, and not a beneficiary of any other oil &amp; gas scholarship.<\/li><li><strong>Postgraduate (UK):<\/strong> aged 21&ndash;28, a UK Upper Second-Class (2:1) equivalent degree, and NYSC completed.<\/li><\/ul>","official_scholarship_link":"https:\/\/candidate.scholastica.ng\/","additional_info":"<p>Apply free on <a href=\"https:\/\/candidate.scholastica.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">candidate.scholastica.ng<\/a> &mdash; nobody is ever asked to pay. The last undergraduate window (2025 awards) closed on <strong>29 August 2025<\/strong>; the postgraduate UK Master&rsquo;s round closed on 8 June 2026. As of 6 September 2026 <strong>no 2026 undergraduate call has been published<\/strong> on Scholastica. The scheme runs yearly, so watch the portal (and this page) rather than blogs quoting dates from other companies&rsquo; schemes. Related schemes on the same portal: <a href=\"\/scholarship\/nnpc-chevron-jv-scholarship\/\">NNPC\/Chevron JV<\/a> and <a href=\"\/scholarship\/agbami-scholarship\/\">Agbami<\/a> &mdash; you may hold only one oil-and-gas scholarship at a time.<\/p>"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NNPC\/SNEPCo Scholarship 2026: Eligibility &amp; How to Apply<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NNPC\/SNEPCo National University Scholarship: \u20a6250,000\/year for Nigerian undergraduates plus a UK postgraduate track. 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