We list 10 fully Funded Masters Business & Management Scholarships Open to Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. Most are held in China (4), Australia (2) and the Netherlands (1). 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 10 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This collection brings together 10 fully funded masters scholarships in Business & Management that are open to Nigerian students. Every award on the list is labelled fully funded, and every one of them sits at masters level, so you are not filtering through part-funded awards or undergraduate schemes to find them.
The awards are hosted across six countries. China carries the largest share with 4, followed by Australia with 2, then the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States with 1 each. That spread matters when you are weighing where you can realistically apply, sit an interview and eventually travel.
The providers named on this page include Stanford University, the University of Groningen, the University of Oxford, Tsinghua University, the University of Tasmania, IMD, participating Australian institutions, and groups of Shanghai and Beijing universities.
All 10 awards on this page are open to Nigerian applicants. Two of them name Nigeria or the wider region directly in their eligibility text. The remaining 8 place no nationality restriction on the award at all. None of the 10 leaves eligibility unstated, so you are not guessing about whether your passport disqualifies you before you start reading the fine print.
The Nigerian pathway into this level is straightforward. You hold a first degree or an HND — B.Sc, B.A, B.Eng, LLB, MBBS or HND — and you are applying for a taught or research masters. Where an award states a minimum class of degree, the wording to watch for is "upper second". On a Nigerian transcript that corresponds to Second Class Upper, or 2:1. Whether a particular university accepts an HND in place of a degree is decided by that university, not by this page, so check the individual award before you spend money on a transcript.
These are the benefits named in the awards' own text, counted across the 10 listings. Treat them as what each award states in writing, not as a promise that every item reaches you.
Read the individual pages for the exact package. "Fully funded" is a label the award applies to itself, and the line items above show how differently that label is used from one scheme to the next.
The requirements below are counted from what the awards state. They tell you what to gather before a deadline, and how much of the paperwork you can prepare in advance.
The recommendation letters are the clearest pattern. Six of the 10 ask for them, which means referees are the single most common bottleneck. Approach your referees early, give them your CV and your statement, and follow up rather than assuming the letter has been sent. Note also that only 3 awards state an English test requirement, so for the rest the question of a waiver is settled by the university, not by this list. Where an award asks for an admission offer first, your scholarship application sits behind a separate university application, and that earlier deadline governs everything.
Six of the 10 awards carry a stated date, and all 6 of those are still open. Four are undated, and 6 are recurring, meaning the cycle returns each year rather than closing permanently. The busiest months are October with 2 deadlines, then April and December with 1 each.
These are the awards closing soonest, in order:
The Stanford deadline is the tightest on the page, and it is the one to check first if you are reading this close to October. The Groningen and AfOx deadlines give you room to order transcripts and chase referees. The Australia Awards and Schwarzman deadlines sit months out, which suits applicants who need a longer runway for documents.
Beyond the five closing soonest, the list includes the University of Tasmania Scholarship 2027 (Fully Funded), which closes 1 October and states a stipend rate that is indexed annually on 1 January. The remaining listings cover the Chinese university groups and the Swiss and other providers named above.
If your interest runs wider than Business & Management, the same collection structure covers other fields: Engineering has 7 awards, Medicine & Health Sciences has 7, and Arts & Humanities, Economics & Finance and Law each have 6. At other study levels, 6 of the awards in this wider set also sit at PhD level and 4 at bachelors level. Those figures describe the surrounding collection, not this page.
Start with the deadline, not the prestige. A scheme you cannot complete the paperwork for is not a scheme you can win. Open the five awards above in order of closing date, and for each one write down three things: the documents it asks for, whether it names a minimum degree class, and whether it requires an admission offer before the scholarship application.
Then match the documents against what you already have. If you need recommendation letters, that is six of the ten awards, so ask for them once and reuse them. If you need an English test, that is three of the ten, so confirm the requirement on the specific award before you pay for a test date. If an award asks for a research proposal, that is one award, and it will take longer than the rest of your file combined.
Finally, budget for the Nigerian side of the process. Transcripts, courier fees and certified copies cost money and take time, and they are the part of the application you control least. Order them before you need them. Read each award page in full, because the counts on this page tell you what the awards say in general, while the individual listing tells you what that one award will ask of you.
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