The TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship provides financial support to post-graduate African students who have been accepted onto MBA programmes at the top 10 leading business schools in the world only, as ranked by the Financial Times.
The Financial Times MBA Global Ranking for 2025 lists the top ten schools as:
- University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
- Columbia Business School
- IESE Business School
- Insead
- SDA Bocconi School of Management
- MIT: Sloan
- London Business School
- Escade Business School
- HEC Paris
- Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Please click here view the full list for further details of rankings.
All successful African MBA applicants to the top ten business schools (as ranked by the Financial Times) are eligible to receive the TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship, regardless of their domicile. Awarded candidates will receive their grant prior to the annual intake date for that business school. However, whilst the TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship will provide additional financial support to help African student’s bridge part of the gap and relieve some of the financial burden attached to taking on MBA programmes, it will not be enough to act as the primary source of funding for these programmes.
Launched in 2011, The TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship aims to help up to eight students a year. To date, scholarships have been awarded to 64 students – from Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe, Ghana, Morocco, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire – who have gone on to attend:
- Harvard Business School
- INSEAD
- London Business School
- MIT: Sloan
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- University of California at Berkeley: Haas
- University of Chicago: Booth
- IE Business School Madrid
- University of Cambridge: Judge
- University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
- Columbia Business School
- HEC Paris
- Dartmouth College: Tuck
- Duke University: Fuqua
- Yale School of Management
- Cornell University: Johnson
How to apply
We are now receiving applications for 2025 intakes.
If you meet the scholarship criteria (you are an African student, who has been accepted on an MBA programme at a top 10 leading Business School, as ranked by The Financial Times MBA Global Ranking 2025 (https://rankings.ft.com/rankings/2997/mba-2025) and want to apply for the scholarship, you should send the following information to [email protected] between 30 May and 30 June 2025:
- Full Name
- Nationality
- Full contact details
- Name of Business School where you have been accepted onto their MBA Programme
- Year of enrolment at the Business School
- Copy of offer letter from the Business School
- Copy of your CV
- Copy of your own budget and funding shortfall (including confirmation letters for all scholarships and loans).
Note, the TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship is to help support by providing additional financial aid, it will not be enough to act as the primary source of funding for the MBA.
Applications received prior to 30 May 2025 or after 30 June 2025 will not be processed.
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