Advance Africa Scholarship Program

Phase 1: Challenge Course

20,000 Access Bank Scholarship applicants in the form of 4 rolling cohorts, will be selected to participate in a Challenge Course, with the first cohort beginning in September 2021. Each cohort will consist of 5,000 participants. During this first phase of the scholarship, students work through one of the five initial Challenge Courses that comprise of course text, content and quizzes (no projects) for Business Analytics, Intro to Programming, Programming for Data Science with Python, Product Management, or Digital Marketing over the course of 5 weeks. Learners should be prepared to invest about 3–5 hours per week during this period. Challenge course recipients participating in this initial phase of the program will also engage with classmates in a robust, actively managed, student community.

The ongoing program is part of the second cohort of the Scholarship for which the Challenge Phase (Phase 1) begins on Jan 11th, 2022

Phase 2: Nanodegree program

2000 students in the form of 4 rolling cohorts will be awarded a scholarship to Business Analytics, Intro to Programming, Programming for Data Science with Python, Product Management or Digital Marketing. Each cohort will consist of 500 full scholarships, and the second cohort of winners will begin in March 2022. Access to these Nanodegree programs includes expert project reviews provided by human project reviewers. Applicants should be prepared to invest about 5–10 hours per week for 2 months.

The timeline for Cohort 2 is:

Applications Accepted: December 1, 2021 - December 29, 2021

Challenge Winners announced: January 7, 2022

Challenge Course: January 11, 2022 - February 16, 2022

Scholarship Winners Announced: February 25, 2022

Nanodegree Scholarship (Phase 2) : March 1, 2022 - April 30, 2022

Dates for future cohorts will be announced in the future on this page!