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NCNMO Scholarship Scheme
Confirm cycle. Official page lists November 15 without a year; 2025 Islamic-education guidelines instead say October 31 annually. Confirm category and cycle..
- Status
- Confirm cycle
- Provider
- National Council of Nigerian Muslim Organizations, USA
- Scope
- National / United States
- Funding type
- Scholarship
- Amount
- Committee determines awards by category; current individual amount not published
- Deadline
- Official page lists November 15 without a year; 2025 Islamic-education guidelines instead say October 31 annually. Confirm category and cycle.
- Audience
- Community-specific
- Faith / community
- NCNMO Nigerian-American Muslim member-chapter community
- Citizenship / residency
- No explicit citizen/immigration category stated in reviewed public guidelines; confirm with provider
- Study level
- Incoming undergraduate, Undergraduate, Graduate / professional
- Eligibility
- Youth of NCNMO member chapters; US college/university students or accepted Islamic-education students, with distinct freshman, continuing, needs-based and Islamic-education categories. Main guidelines require 3.5 high-school GPA for freshman awards, 3.0 for continuing awards and 2.0 for needs-based awards; Islamic categories have their own rules.
- Application materials
- Online application; Transcripts; Personal statement/essay appropriate to category; Recommendations appropriate to category; College aid award letter and need statement for needs-based route; Chapter contacts/verification
- Study fields
- Any major, Islamic studies, Arabic, Chaplaincy
- Geography
- NCNMO member-chapter community across the United States; not a blanket award for all US Muslims
About this program
NCNMO is a national Nigerian Muslim community organization, and its scholarship scheme serves youth of member chapters rather than every Muslim applicant. The scheme groups freshman, continuing, needs-based and Islamic-education support in one application framework. A headline GPA of 2.0 on the landing page is the needs-based threshold; it should not be presented as the rule for every category. Applicants should read the detailed guidelines and choose their category before preparing recommendations or essays. The current landing page says applications are open and lists November 15, but omits the year. The linked Islamic-education guidelines give an October 31 annual deadline. This unresolved difference prevents a verified open badge and a definitive deadline in this directory.
Source note
November 15 website and October 31 Islamic-education guidelines conflict Deadline year is unstated Main 2.0 landing-page GPA is not universal across categories Member-chapter/community restriction is material
Sources checked
- NCNMO Scholarship — NCNMO · read
- Scholarship Scheme Guidelines, October 2025 revision — NCNMO · read
- Islamic Education Scholarship Guidelines, October 2025 revision — NCNMO · read
Official program page (confirm cycle)
Provider statements as read on ; the source-check date is not a publication date. Eligibility is the provider’s, not a guarantee of funding. Edited by Omar Afra; release pending.
Nationwide funding guides
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