TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship 2025 for African Business Leader
The TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship is a prestigious initiative designed to empower African students who have secured admission to the world’s leading MBA programs.
- By providing financial assistance to a select group of high-achieving candidates, this scholarship aims to ease the financial burden of attending top-tier business schools and help African professionals build a global network, gain world-class education, and return to their communities better equipped to drive progress and innovation.
Eligibility Criteria
To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must:
- Be a national of an African country
- Have been accepted into a full-time MBA program at one of the top 10 global business schools (per Financial Times 2025 rankings)
- Be able to demonstrate a clear funding gap
- Submit all required documents between 30 May and 30 June 2025
There is no restriction based on domicile; African applicants studying in any part of the world are welcome to apply.
Eligible Business Schools
Applicants must have secured a place at one of the top 10 MBA programs listed in the Financial Times MBA Global Rankings 2025. These are:
- University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
- Columbia Business School
- IESE Business School
- INSEAD
- SDA Bocconi School of Management
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- London Business School
- ESADE Business School
- HEC Paris
- Northwestern University: Kellogg School of Management
Please refer to the official rankings for more information.
Scope of Financial Support
The TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship is designed to provide supplemental financial assistance to successful candidates.
- While the grant contributes meaningfully towards reducing the cost of tuition, living expenses, and other academic fees, it is not intended to serve as the primary source of funding.
Applicants are therefore expected to demonstrate additional sources of financial support and to present a clear picture of their funding status.
Alumni Achievements
Past recipients have gone on to attend an impressive list of global institutions including:
- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- University of Cambridge: Judge
- University of Chicago: Booth
- Yale School of Management
- Dartmouth College: Tuck
- Duke University: Fuqua
- University of California at Berkeley: Haas
- Columbia Business School
- IE Business School Madrid
- HEC Paris
- Cornell University: Johnson
- INSEAD
- MIT: Sloan
- London Business School
- University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
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 mba@tyd-fo.co.uk 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.
How to Apply
Interested applicant can apply via this link:
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