We list 11 undergraduate Business & Management Scholarships Open to 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 China (3), the United Kingdom (3) and the United States (2). 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 11 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 11 undergraduate scholarships in Business & Management that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here is for a first degree, and every one of the 11 is one a Nigerian applicant may apply for. For 10 of them, no nationality restriction appears on the award at all. For 1, Nigeria or the wider region is named in the eligibility text. None of the 11 states that Nigerian applicants are excluded.
If you are finishing secondary school or already holding WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE results, this is the level you are looking at. The awards sit in six countries: China (3), the United Kingdom (3), the United States (2), Australia (1), Canada (1) and Singapore (1).
Of the 11, 6 are labelled fully funded and 2 are labelled partially funded. The remaining 3 do not state their funding position on the award page, so nothing can be said here about what those three cover. Treat the label on each award page as the starting point, not the whole picture.
Where the awards name a benefit in their own text, the counts are these:
These are the benefits the awards themselves write down. A fully funded label does not automatically mean every line above is covered by that particular award, and a partial award may still cover more than its label suggests. Read the individual award page before you build a budget around it.
The requirements stated in writing across these awards are modest in number but specific in kind:
The pattern matters more than the numbers. Two awards will not consider you until you already hold an offer of admission from the institution, which means the scholarship application sits behind the university application, not beside it. If a test score is named, budget for the test fee and the score report fee early, because the report has to reach the institution before the deadline, not after it.
Only one award names a minimum degree class. For an undergraduate award that wording usually refers to your secondary school results rather than a university classification, so check the award page for exactly which results it means.
Three awards carry a stated date, three are still open, and eight are undated on the listing. Three run on a recurring cycle rather than a single closing date. The busiest months named across the set are April, December and June, one award each.
The three closing soonest are:
Two of the Chinese awards work differently. The Shanghai Government Scholarship (SGS) Fully Funded 2026 - 2027 runs between January and June of each year, and the Beijing Government Scholarship 2026-2027 (Fully Funded) asks you to check its own page for the date. Recurring windows reward preparation: if you miss this year's round, the next one opens on the same rhythm.
Where a deadline is not stated on the listing, do not assume it is open indefinitely. Open the award page and confirm the date before you spend money on transcripts or courier fees.
The country spread is China 3, United Kingdom 3, United States 2, Australia 1, Canada 1 and Singapore 1. The named providers on this page include Participating Australian Institutions, Shanghai Universities, Beijing Universities, Sheffield Hallam University, Boston University and Berea College.
One award states a number of places: the Events and leisure management Dean’s scholarship 2026-2027 at Sheffield Hallam University names 15 awards. That is the only award count given on this page, so it is the only one worth planning around.
Durations, where stated, run long. Two awards are listed at 4 years, one at 4 years or longer depending on the major, one at 4 to 5 years for the bachelor's programme, and one at 4 years for an undergraduate and 2 years for a master's. A four-year commitment abroad is a four-year commitment to funding, accommodation and living costs, so read what each award renews and what it does not.
The pathway into this level is straightforward. You finished secondary school, and you hold WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE results. These are scholarships for a first degree abroad. Most ask for your senior secondary results and an admission offer, and each award page quotes its own entry requirement.
Two things are worth separating. Being eligible to apply is not the same as being competitive, and being competitive is not the same as being funded. The 11 awards here are open to you; what happens after you submit depends on the strength of your results, your documents and the field you are applying into.
If you also hold a B.Sc, HND or M.Sc and are weighing a postgraduate route instead, note that the same collection contains 7 awards at Masters level and 5 at PhD level. Those are separate lists with separate requirements.
Eleven awards is a workable list. The work is in the documents, the dates and the order in which you do things. Start with the award closing soonest and build the rest of your applications around it.
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