Young African Lady graduates as a Microbiologist with first-class, wins scholarship to study in both US and UK

A brilliant Nigerian Lady named Mercy Ojetunde has achieved an exceptional feat after winning a United Kingdom’s Commonwealth Scholarship for her Master’s degree and immediately won another scholarship in the United States for her PhD degree.

Mercy Ojetunde graduated with a first-class (4.75 out 5.00) Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from Osun State University, South-West, Nigeria. After her undergraduate program, she applied for the UK Commonwealth Shared Scholarship.

The United Kingdom Commonwealth Shared Scholarship is a yearly award funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to allow international students to enrol for their Master’s degree in any university in the United Kingdom at no cost.

Application for the 2023 version of this scholarship is expected to commence by November 2022, join our WhatsApp group HERE so that we can remind you of its availability whenever it opens. Mercy narrated how her journey to bag two scholarships went.

According to her, she started exploring MSc/PhD opportunities abroad because she was determined to study for her Master’s and Doctorate (PhD) abroad with sponsorship from international organisations.

“I started my applications, and fortunately, I got the Commonwealth Shared Scholarships in 2021 to study MSc. Biotechnology at the University of the West of Scotland, UK,” she wrote on LinkedIn.

“It was a great opportunity to understand the teaching/learning style abroad,” she added.