Seyi Bickersteth Undergraduate Scholarships 2022, Nigeria

Eligibility Criteria

• A minimum of 5 Distinctions (As & Bs) from their WASSCE (including English and Mathematics). 
• Student’s SSCE results cannot also be older than 2 years.
• A minimum score of 230 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
• Candidates must have admission into a Federal University in Nigeria.
• Candidates’ four-year course must be in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Insurance or Actuarial Sciences
• Seyi Bickersteth Scholarship Programme is open to students just admitted into100 level of their studies at the time of application. The scholarship is open to students who attended public secondary schools in Nigeria or private secondary schools (where the student received scholarship to attend)
• Only students that are not currently on any scholarship scheme are eligible.

Offered Benefits

Beneficiaries of the programme will receive a scholarship grant worth Four Hundred Thousand Naira (N400,000) annually. Asides the scholarship grant, beneficiaries will also receive:

• Summer internship opportunities during the holiday or while they are on National Industrial attachment.
• Mentorship opportunities and exposure.
• Upon completion, candidates will be eligible to work at any of the three firms (KPMG, Leadway Assurance or Andersen) if they graduate with a First Class or Second Class Upper Division degree.

Application Process

Applicants should upload scanned copies of the following as part of the application:

• Recent passport-sized photograph of the applicant in JPEG format, not more than 200kilobytes;
• University or JAMB Admission Letter;
• Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) Result;
• O’ Level Result(s); and ‘A’ Level /OND /NCE Result(s) as applicable;