We list 13 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. 10 of them are fully funded. Most are held in China (4), Australia (2) and the United Kingdom (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 13 awards on this page — every figure below is counted from what the awards themselves state. 5 min read.
This collection gathers 13 Masters scholarships in Business & Management that are open to Nigerian students. Every entry sits at masters level, sits in the business and management field, and is either explicitly open to Nigerians or carries no nationality restriction at all. Ten of the 13 are labelled fully funded, two are labelled partially funded, and one does not state its funding either way.
Because the field is business and management, the awards here suit applicants moving into an MBA, an M.Sc in management, finance, marketing, operations or a related taught or research masters. If your first degree is in another subject but your target programme is a management one, the field tag still applies to you.
The 13 awards are spread across eight countries. China carries the largest share with four, followed by Australia and the United Kingdom with two each. Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States each hold one.
That spread matters when you are costing the application. A Chinese or Australian award may involve a different document set from a Dutch or Swiss one, and the visa and proof-of-funds paperwork you face afterwards differs by country. Read each listing on its own terms rather than assuming one process covers all of them.
All 13 awards are open to Nigerian applicants. For two of them, Nigeria or the wider region is named directly in the eligibility text. For the other 11, the award states no nationality restriction, which means a Nigerian passport does not disqualify you. No award on this page leaves eligibility unstated.
The route in is a first degree or an HND. The qualifications that lead into this level are B.Sc, B.A, B.Eng, LLB, MBBS and HND. Where an award sets a minimum class of degree, remember that "upper second" corresponds to Second Class Upper, a 2:1, on a Nigerian transcript. Whether a particular university accepts an HND for a given masters programme is decided by that university, not by this page, so check the programme page before you spend money on a transcript.
Funding labels on this page are the ones the awards themselves use. Ten are described as fully funded and two as partially funded. One award does not label its funding either way, so nothing can be said about what it covers.
Among the 13, the benefits named in the award text break down as follows: tuition is named by five, living costs by five, travel by three, health insurance by two, research or training costs by two, and accommodation by one. These are what the awards say in writing. They are not a promise that every cost you will face is met, and you should still budget for the items no award names — application fees, transcript and courier charges, English test fees, and the settling-in costs of your first weeks abroad.
The requirements stated across these awards give a fair picture of the paperwork ahead. Six ask for letters of recommendation. Three ask for an English test score, IELTS or TOEFL. Two state a minimum degree class. Two ask for work experience. One asks for a research proposal, and one requires that you hold an admission offer before you apply for the funding.
Plan around the recommendation letters first. Six awards want them, and referees in Nigeria need notice — a lecturer or line manager who is asked on a Friday for a Monday submission will not produce a useful letter. Give each referee the award name, the deadline, your CV and a short note on what you are applying for.
The English test requirement is worth checking closely. Only three of the 13 state it, which means the majority do not name it in the award text. That does not automatically mean a waiver; it means the award itself does not list the requirement. Confirm with the university whether your WAEC English or a previous degree taught in English is accepted.
Six awards carry a stated date and six are still open. Seven are undated, and six recur annually. Where a month is named, October is the busiest with two, then April and December with one each.
The five closing soonest, in order:
The Stanford entry closes 8 October, so treat it as the immediate one if it fits your profile. The Groningen award closes 1 December, which leaves room to gather documents if you start now. The AfOx award closes 6 January, the Australia Awards 30 April, and Schwarzman 20 May.
Several of the awards collected here also carry other study levels. Seven of the 13 sit alongside bachelors openings and seven alongside PhD openings, so a single listing may serve more than one application. The University of Tasmania Scholarship, for instance, is listed for masters and PhD, and the Australia Awards entry covers undergraduate, masters and PhD.
If you are weighing a research masters against a taught one, the field counts on this site may help you judge the competition. Business and management is the largest field group here at 13, ahead of medicine and health sciences at eight, arts and humanities at seven, engineering at seven, economics and finance at six, and law at six. Education, social sciences, agriculture and public policy and development follow with five, four, three and one.
Work through the list in deadline order. Open the Stanford listing first if the October date is live for you, then the Groningen and AfOx entries, since those three fall inside the next few months. For each one, note four things before you do anything else: the funding label, the documents named in the award text, the deadline, and whether the award names Nigeria or carries no nationality restriction.
Then start the slow items. Request transcripts from your institution early — Nigerian transcript processing and courier delivery take time you cannot recover later. Ask your referees for the six awards that want recommendation letters. Book an English test only if the award or the university asks for one, and check the waiver position first so you are not paying for a test you do not need.
Finally, read each award page in full rather than relying on the summary here. The counts on this page describe what the awards state; the award page is where the binding detail sits.
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