We list 20 masters Business & Management Scholarships for Nigerian Students, with the deadline, study level and eligibility of each one taken from the award's own terms. 15 of them are fully funded. Most are held in China (4), the United Kingdom (4) and Australia (2). 13 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 20 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 6 min read.
This page lists 20 Masters scholarships in Business & Management that are open to Nigerian students. Every award here sits at masters level, and every one is tagged to the business and management field. The list is not a general funding directory with a business filter bolted on; it was built around this subject area.
Of the 20, 15 are fully funded and 4 are partially funded. One award does not label its funding either way, so treat it as unknown until you open the individual page and read the provider's own wording.
Business and management is the largest single field on this collection, which is expected given the heading. The same awards also carry other subject tags: 8 of them sit under Arts & Humanities, 8 under Engineering, 8 under Medicine & Health Sciences, 7 under Economics & Finance and 7 under Law. If your interest is closer to finance than to general management, the Economics & Finance angle is worth checking on the individual pages.
The countries represented run across four continents, and the spread matters when you are weighing cost of living, visa timelines and how far your naira will stretch.
China and the United Kingdom carry the most weight here, with four awards each. That is useful if you are already leaning towards either destination, and less useful if you are set on North America, where the count is thinner.
Funding language on a scholarship page is not decoration. It tells you what the provider has committed to in writing, and what you will still have to find yourself. Across this list, the awards that name their benefits say the following:
Read those as what the awards state, not as a promise that every fully funded award covers all six. A tuition-only award still leaves you paying rent, feeding yourself and covering a flight, and in cities like London or Sydney those numbers are not small. Before you shortlist anything, work out the gap between what is named and what a year of living actually costs where the university sits.
Two of the awards on this list state an award count. The rest do not, which means you cannot judge your odds from this page alone.
This is the question that decides everything else. Of the 20 awards, 13 are open to Nigerian applicants. Within that 13, two name Nigeria or the African region explicitly in their eligibility text, and eleven carry no nationality restriction at all.
A further 7 awards do not state their eligibility on the award page itself. That is not a no. It means the provider has not published the nationality rule where we can see it, and you will need to check the university or funder's own page before you spend money on a transcript or a courier.
The qualification pathway into this level is straightforward. You hold a first degree or HND — B.Sc, B.A, B.Eng, LLB, MBBS or HND. These are taught and research masters, and awards usually state a minimum class of degree. Where an award asks for an "upper second", that corresponds to Second Class Upper (2:1) on a Nigerian transcript. Whether an HND is accepted in place of a degree is decided by each university, not by this page, so confirm it directly with the admissions office before you build your application around it.
The requirements below are counted from what the awards themselves state in writing. They are the things that will cost you time, money or both.
Letters of recommendation are the single most common ask, so start there. Approach your referees early, give them your CV and a draft of your personal statement, and be clear about the deadline. Nigerian academics are frequently asked and rarely chased, so a polite reminder two weeks out is normal practice, not rudeness.
Six awards name an English test. If you studied your first degree in English, some providers waive the requirement, but the waiver is theirs to grant, not yours to assume. Where the test is compulsory, budget for it alongside your transcript and courier costs rather than after them.
Two awards require an admission offer before you can apply for the funding. That reverses your timeline: the university application comes first, and the scholarship deadline is effectively earlier than it looks.
Nine awards on this page carry a specific date. Nine are marked as still open. Eleven are undated, and nine recur annually, which means a missed cycle is usually recoverable if you plan for the next one.
The busiest months are April, October and May, with two deadlines each. If you are working backwards from a target intake, those are the months to have your documents finished well before.
The awards closing soonest are:
Note the range. The Stanford award closes in October, while Australia Awards gives you until the end of April. That gap is the difference between an application you can assemble carefully and one you rush.
The providers named on this list include Stanford University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Tasmania, BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, University College Dublin, Shanghai universities, and participating Australian institutions. Some are single-university awards tied to one institution; others, like Australia Awards, are routed through a group of participating institutions, which means your choice of university sits inside the application rather than before it.
One example of how the terms differ: the BI Presidential Scholarship in Norway states full tuition plus a stipend for international students, while the University College Dublin MBA Scholarships are partial. Both are on this page, and both are worth reading in full before you decide which to pursue.
Start with eligibility, not with prestige. Open the awards that interest you and confirm two things: whether Nigerian applicants are named or unrestricted, and whether the funding covers what you cannot pay yourself. Then work backwards from the deadline.
Build your document pack once and reuse it. Transcripts, degree certificate, CV, personal statement, two or three reference letters and, where required, an English test score. Ordering a transcript from a Nigerian university takes time and a courier fee, so do it before you have a deadline pressing on you.
Where an award asks for a minimum degree class, check your transcript wording against the provider's language early. Where it asks for work experience, count your years honestly. Where it asks for an admission offer first, apply to the university before you touch the scholarship form.
Finally, treat undated and recurring awards as opportunities rather than omissions. Nine of the awards here recur, and eleven carry no fixed date. Those are the ones to diary for the next cycle if this year's window has already closed.
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