We list 7 business & Management Scholarships for Nigerian Students in the United Kingdom, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 4 of them are fully funded. 4 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 7 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 6 min read.
This page collects 7 scholarships for Business & Management study in the United Kingdom. Every award here is tied to a UK institution, and every one of the seven sits in the business and management field. The list is not a single fund or a single university scheme. It is a mixed set drawn from different providers, different study levels and different funding models, which is why the entries read so differently from one another.
Six providers appear across the seven awards: the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Kent, the University of Stirling and Aston University. One entry does not name a provider in the brief.
Four of the seven are labelled fully funded. Two are labelled partially funded. One award does not state its funding position either way, and nothing further should be assumed about it.
When you look at what the awards actually name in their own text, the picture narrows:
Read those four lines carefully. "Fully funded" is the label an award gives itself; the covers list is what the award spells out in writing. They are not the same thing, and where an award names only tuition, the rest of your budget is yours to find. Treat the covers figures as what the award states, not as a promise of what will land in your account.
The list splits evenly between undergraduate and postgraduate work. 4 awards are open at Bachelors level and 4 at Masters level. The groups overlap, so some awards appear in both counts.
For a Nigerian reader this matters in a practical way. If you are coming out of WAEC and NECO and applying for a first degree, the undergraduate entries are your set. If you already hold a B.Sc, HND or M.Sc and you are looking at an MBA or a taught master's, the Masters entries are the ones to open first. Two of the awards on the page are MBA scholarships specifically, which is a narrower and more competitive pool than a general master's award.
Where the brief gives a duration, it reads as follows: 2 awards run for 1 year, 1 runs for 3–4 years, and 1 runs for 4 years. Those longer spans are the undergraduate awards; the one-year spans fit the postgraduate entries.
This is the question worth answering before you spend money on anything. Of the seven awards, 4 are ones a Nigerian applicant may apply for.
Within that group of four:
Those two figures add up to the four, so they describe the same group rather than stacking on top of each other. Separately, 3 awards do not state their eligibility on the award page itself. That is not a no. It means the information is not on the page, and you would need to check the provider's own terms before assuming you qualify or do not.
One award on this list is named for Africa-focused graduate study at Oxford, which is the entry that names the region directly. The rest of the open group are open on nationality and decided on other grounds.
The requirements the awards state in writing are modest in number but heavy in effort:
Only one award on the page publishes an awards count: 15 places. For the rest, the number of awards is not given, so plan on the assumption that you are competing against a field you cannot size.
The admission-offer-first requirement is the one that catches Nigerian applicants out. Transcripts from Nigerian universities and polytechnics take time to produce and cost money to courier, and an admission decision will not move until they arrive. If a scholarship deadline is close and your transcript is not yet requested, the transcript is the thing to chase today.
Three awards on this page carry a date. Three are still open. Four are undated, and three recur annually. The busiest months across the set are May, June and January, one award each.
The three closing soonest are:
The remaining entries include the Events and leisure management Dean's scholarship 2026-2027 at Sheffield Hallam University, which carries 15 awards and a deadline stated for international applications; the University of Kent Undergraduate Scholarships 2026-2027, a partially funded undergraduate award with a March deadline; and the Sussex MBA Scholarships 2027 UK, a fully funded MBA award whose deadline is given only as "see details".
January is the tightest of the three months. A 6 January close sits immediately after the Christmas period, when Nigerian universities and exam bodies are slow to respond. If you intend to apply for the Oxford award, the documents you need should be in motion well before December.
The United Kingdom hosts 71,756 Nigerian students, the largest Nigerian student population in any country, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, based on 2023 figures. That is the context for this list: the UK is not a speculative destination for Nigerian applicants, it is the established one, and the competition for funded places reflects that.
Business and management is also the largest field on this page by design. The same collection shows related awards in other fields: Medicine & Health Sciences with 3, Arts & Humanities with 2, and Economics & Finance, Engineering, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences with 1 each. Those are separate lists. If your intended course sits in economics or finance rather than management, the business and management entries may still be worth reading, but the field label on each award is what governs.
Work in this order.
Seven awards is a small list. That is the honest position: funded business and management study in the UK is a narrow field, and the awards that name tuition, living costs, travel or accommodation in writing are fewer still. Apply to more than one, and keep your admission applications moving regardless of the funding outcome.
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*UNESCO Institute for Statistics, inbound internationally mobile students from Nigeria, 2023.
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