NYSC to Tech Job
₦250M NYSC scholarship fund
The ₦250M NYSC scholarship fund is being shared across 1,562 eligible learners. Each learner receives about ₦160,000 as a part scholarship toward a globally accredited AltSchool tech diploma, and will pay the remaining school fees themselves.
Total support per person
₦160,000
Industry-aligned innovation courses delivered through the university pathway.
Industry-aligned innovation courses delivered with the university pathway.
All Degree courses are accredited by NUC.
AltSchool Africa is accredited by ASIC for external quality assurance.
GSV Cup Elite 200 recognized AltSchool as a leading EdTech innovator.
The scholarship support
₦160,000 support for each eligible NYSC learner
The total scholarship fund is ₦250M, and it is being shared between 1,562 eligible corps members, recent NYSC alumni, and people about to serve. That gives each learner about ₦160,000 in part-scholarship support toward a globally accredited AltSchool tech diploma. The scholarship reduces the cost, but learners will still pay the remaining school fees themselves.
Total support per person
₦160,000
This is a part scholarship from the ₦250M shared fund, not a full scholarship. It reduces the cost of your AltSchool diploma.
₦10,000 toward the application fee.
₦150,000 toward the school fees.
Laptop scholarship add-on
Laptop support for selected learners
NYSC participants who apply to a course but do not have a laptop for learning can also be considered for laptop support.
This is for applicants who need a device to participate fully in their one-year technical programme.
Program partners
Partners helping NYSC learners move from diploma to opportunity
AltSchool is working with partners who extend the programme beyond scholarship support, connecting learners to jobs, internships, mentorship, and youth-focused opportunity after their diploma.
Tunde Onakoya
Youth development partner helping shape the learner support experience with a mentoring and opportunity-building lens.
Jobs 59
Jobs and internship placement partner for NYSC diploma graduates.
Youth development partner
Tunde Onakoya is helping shape a stronger support experience
Tunde Onakoya is bringing lessons from his work with young people, discipline, and opportunity-building into how this programme guides NYSC learners. He is the founder of Chess in Slums Africa, and his role here focuses on mentoring perspective, learner motivation, and support that stays grounded in real youth outcomes.
Use his experience building youth-focused learning pathways to help shape support around discipline, confidence, and follow-through.
Bring a mentoring lens that helps learners connect service-year ambition with structured skill-building and practical next steps.
Support programme guidance around resilience, focus, and turning potential into career possibility.
Youth development partner
Tunde Onakoya
Founder, Chess in Slums Africa
Jobs and internships
Jobs 59 supports the next step after the diploma
Jobs 59 is the programme partner responsible for helping NYSC diploma graduates move into jobs and internships after they complete their AltSchool diploma.
Placement vision
"Every NYSC year brings hundreds of thousands of young graduates into the economy. Training opens the door, but placement changes the story. Jobs 59 is here to help thousands of diploma graduates turn new skills into internships, interviews, and real work."
Sam Otigba
Founder, Jobs 59
Build a placement pipeline for thousands of NYSC diploma graduates.
Connect graduates to internship openings, entry-level jobs, and hiring partners.
Help learners turn portfolio projects, technical skills, and service-year experience into employable proof.
Diploma pathways
Start applying for an internship from Month 6.
Choose a diploma track that gives you practical skills, guided projects, and career support. The goal is simple: by the time your service year is over, you should have sharper skills, better confidence, and stronger evidence of what you can do.
How it works
Turn one service year into a stronger career story
01
Apply for support
Tell us where you are in your NYSC journey and the diploma path you are considering.
02
Get fee relief
Admissions reviews your details, confirms eligibility, and guides you into the right programme.
03
Learn and build
Use your service year to build a portfolio, practise with real tools, and learn with structure.
04
Move into work
Graduate with practical experience that can support internship, remote, and onsite job opportunities.
NYSC scholarship application
Apply once. Get reviewed for ₦160,000 support.
Open the application form, tell us your NYSC stage, tech diploma course, and career goal, and our admissions team will guide you through the supported route if you qualify.
₦160,000
Application opens instantly in a guided form.
₦160,000 support toward an eligible tech diploma.
Admissions reviews your NYSC stage, tech diploma course, and goal.
Our students
Your service year can open real career doors.
Use this season to build job-ready proof, apply for internships, and step into teams that need technical talent. From startups to global companies, your new skills can help you compete for work in product, data, engineering, security, cloud, and business teams.
Business and data teams
Turn insight into impact
Software teams
Build products people use
Where our students work
Sponsors and partners
The people and organisations backing this scholarship
Meet the supporters helping more NYSC learners turn scholarship access into practical skills, career momentum, and opportunity.
"Backing this programme means helping more young Nigerians move from ambition to practical, employable skill."
Harri Obi
Founder, Harrison Obiefule Foundation
Sponsor
Founder of Hello CV and supporter of the NYSC scholarship programme.
Opeyemi Awoyemi
Founder of Hello CV