We list 6 fully Funded Undergraduate Business & Management Scholarships for Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. Most are held in China (3), Australia (1) and the United Kingdom (1). 6 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 6 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This page collects 6 fully funded undergraduate scholarships in business and management that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here is tagged Fully Funded, every one is at bachelors level, and every one sits in the business and management field. That combination is narrow, and the number reflects it.
If you are searching more widely, the same collection carries 4 masters awards and 4 PhD awards in this field, so the undergraduate route is not the only one on the site. But if you are finishing secondary school or preparing to start a first degree, the six below are the ones written for your level.
The six awards sit in four countries.
China holds half the list, which is worth noting if you are weighing cost of living, distance from home and the paperwork involved in a student visa. The three Chinese awards come from different providers: the Shanghai Government Scholarship, hosted through a list of Shanghai universities; the Beijing Government Scholarship, hosted through Beijing universities; and the Hubei Government Scholarship. Each is administered separately, so the application route and the documents differ even though the country is the same.
All 6 awards on this page are open to Nigerian applicants. For 1 of them, Nigeria or the wider region is named directly in the eligibility text. For the other 5, there is no nationality restriction stated at all.
That distinction matters when you are reading an award page. An award that names Nigeria or West Africa is telling you plainly that you are in scope. An award with no nationality restriction is not excluding you, but it also is not confirming you — you still need to check the entry requirements for your qualification and confirm the details with the provider before you spend money on transcripts or courier fees.
The pathway into this level is straightforward. You finished secondary school, and your qualifications are WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or SSCE. 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.
These are the benefits the awards name in their own text. They are what the award states in writing, not a promise that every cost you will face is handled.
Read those counts carefully. They tell you that "fully funded" is not one uniform package across the six. Some awards spell out tuition and nothing else in the text we hold. Others go further. Before you build a budget around an award, open its page and check the benefit section line by line, then confirm with the provider what is paid directly and what you are expected to cover and claim back.
The requirements stated on these awards are as follows.
The admission offer requirement is the one that catches people out. If an award asks for an offer before you apply for the funding, your timeline is not the scholarship deadline alone — it is the university's admission timeline plus the scholarship deadline, and the earlier of the two governs everything. Start the admission application first.
On the English test: only 1 award states it in the text we hold. That does not mean the others waive it. Many institutions accept a letter confirming your degree was taught in English, or handle the requirement at admission stage rather than at scholarship stage. Check each award page and each university's own requirement rather than assuming.
For recommendations, approach your lecturers or your school principal early. Nigerian academics are often asked for these in bulk and a request sent two days before a deadline is likely to be declined or rushed.
Two of the awards state a duration. One describes a bachelor's degree programme of 4 to 5 years. The other states 4 years or longer depending on the major. Plan your funding and your living arrangements around the longer figure, not the shorter one, and check the specific programme length for the course you are applying to.
Of the six awards, 1 carries a specific date, 1 is still open, 5 are undated in the text we hold, and 1 recurs. The busiest month is April, with 1 deadline falling in it.
The award closing soonest is the Australia Awards Scholarships 2027 (Fully Funded), which closes 30 April. It is provided through participating Australian institutions and is open at undergraduate, masters and PhD level.
The Shanghai Government Scholarship runs between January and June of each year, so it recurs rather than closing once. The Beijing Government Scholarship and the Hubei Government Scholarship both point you to their details pages for the deadline. The Sheffield Hallam award states that the deadline for international applications is set out in its details. Berea College lists several dates: November 01, 2025, January 31, 2026 and March 31.
Where a deadline is undated or points to a details page, treat that as work to do, not as an open window. Government scholarships in particular tend to publish a window and close it without much warning.
The Sheffield Hallam award is the only one on this page that states a number of awards: 15. It is also the only one restricted to a single subject area within the field, events and leisure management.
Open the award pages above and read the eligibility section on each one before you do anything else. Confirm two things: that your secondary school qualification is accepted, and that the award is open to applicants from Nigeria. For 5 of the 6, no nationality restriction is stated, which means the confirmation has to come from the provider, not from the page alone.
Then work out your document timeline backwards from the deadline. Transcripts, certified results and courier delivery from Nigeria take time, and the cost sits with you. If an award requires an admission offer before you apply for funding, the university's deadline is now your real deadline.
If you are also considering study beyond a first degree, the same field carries 4 masters awards and 4 PhD awards, and the wider site lists scholarships in medicine and health sciences, arts and humanities, engineering, agriculture, economics and finance, education, law, computer science and IT, natural sciences, and social sciences. Business and management is one route in. It is not the only one.
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