We list 12 undergraduate Business & Management Scholarships for Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 6 of them are fully funded. Most are held in the United Kingdom (4), China (3) and the United States (2). 11 state eligibility that includes Nigerian applicants. Awards with a known closing date are listed soonest first.
These awards do not restrict the field of study, so business & management applicants can apply too.
Written from the 12 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 12 undergraduate scholarships in Business & Management that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here is for a first degree, so the entry point is your secondary school result rather than a previous university transcript. You will find the full set at /scholarship/bachelors-business-management-scholarships.
Business & Management is the largest field on this page, and it is the filter that produced the list. If your interest sits closer to Economics & Finance, that is a separate group of awards, and the same is true for Computer Science & IT. What follows is what the 12 awards actually say about money, eligibility, documents and dates.
The countries are spread across six destinations, with the United Kingdom holding the largest share.
That spread matters for planning. A UK award and a Chinese award rarely ask for the same paperwork, and the cost of getting documents across to each one differs. If you are applying to more than one country, budget for transcripts, courier and any certification separately for each application rather than assuming one set of documents will serve all of them.
Some awards are run by a single institution and some are run jointly. The providers named on this list include Boston University, Berea College, Sheffield Hallam University, Beijing Universities, Shanghai Universities and participating Australian institutions.
Six of the 12 are labelled fully funded and three are labelled partially funded. The remaining three do not state their funding level either way on the award page, so treat those as unknown until you read the individual entry.
Where awards spell out what they cover, the benefits named are:
Read that list carefully. Only four awards state tuition in their own text, and the rest of the benefits appear once each. A "fully funded" label tells you the award intends to cover the cost of study, but the individual award page is where you confirm what is actually included and what you are expected to fund yourself. Do not assume a full award covers flights, visa fees or your living costs unless the page says so.
For 11 of the 12 awards, a Nigerian applicant can apply. Within that group, one award names Nigeria or the region directly, and ten carry no nationality restriction at all. The twelfth award does not state its eligibility on the page, so there is nothing to confirm either way from the listing alone.
Ten unrestricted awards is a workable number. It means most of this list is decided on your results, your documents and your application quality rather than on your passport. Where an award names Nigeria or the region, that is a stated priority rather than a guess, and it is worth reading that entry first.
The requirements stated in writing across these awards are few and specific:
Two points are worth pausing on. First, an English test is named by only two awards here, which means the majority do not state it as a requirement. That is not the same as a waiver. Check each award page and the institution's own English language policy before you pay for a test. Second, two awards require an admission offer before you can be considered for the scholarship. If you are targeting those, the university application comes first and the scholarship application follows, which pushes your whole timeline forward by months.
The minimum degree class requirement appears on one award. Since this is an undergraduate list, that wording usually refers to your secondary school result rather than a university classification, but confirm it on the award page.
Three awards carry a stated date, three are still open, and nine are undated on the listing. Three are recurring, meaning the award runs on a cycle rather than a single closing date.
The busiest months named across this set are April, December and June, one award each. The three closing soonest are:
The recurring awards follow their own rhythm. The Shanghai Government Scholarship runs between January and June of each year. The Beijing Government Scholarship directs you to its details for the date. The Sheffield Hallam dean's scholarship for events and leisure management states its international deadline on the page rather than in the listing.
Where awards state a duration, the figures given are four years, three to four years, four years or longer depending on the major, and a programme length of four to five years for a bachelor's degree. That range is normal for a business or management degree abroad and it matters for two reasons: a scholarship that covers tuition for a fixed number of years may not extend if your programme runs longer, and your living costs accumulate over the full period, not just the first year.
Start with the three dated awards, because they are the ones with a clock on them. If Boston University is on your list, the 1 December date is the nearest, and it will shape everything else you do this year.
Then work through the practical sequence. Gather your WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE results and confirm the exact subject requirements on each award page. Request your letters of recommendation early, since two awards here ask for them and referees take time. If an award requires an admission offer first, begin the university application before the scholarship application. Check the English language position on each award page before booking a test, so you are not paying for one that is not required.
Finally, read each award entry in full. The counts on this page tell you what the 12 awards say collectively; only the individual award page tells you what one of them will ask of you. The full list is at /scholarship/bachelors-business-management-scholarships.
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