TY Danjuma MBA Scholarship

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 2023 lists the top ten schools as:

  • Columbia Business School
  • Insead (France/Singapore)
  • IESE Business School
  • Harvard Business School
  • Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • SDA Bocconi School of Management
  • University of California at Berkeley: Haas
  • Cornell University: Johnson
  • Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
  • Yale 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 50 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

How to apply

Please note that we have now closed the application process for this year and will not accept any applications received after 30th June 2023.

Applications for 2024 will open on 1st June 2024.

If you have applied for a scholarship on or before 30 June 2023 and meet the scholarship criteria (you are an African student who has been accepted onto a MBA programme at a top 10 Business School as ranked by The Financial Times MBA Global Ranking 2023), you will only receive an email from us by 7th July 2023 if you have been successful in reaching the second stage of the application process. Unfortunately, if you have not heard back from us by 7th July 2023 your application for a scholarship has been unsuccessful.

GDPR Statement

TY Danjuma Family Office Limited is committed to meeting the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, effective 25 May 2018. We respect your privacy and take the protection of your personal data very seriously. This Privacy Notice is designed to help you understand how TY Danjuma Family Office collects, uses or otherwise processes personal data collected to manage MBA scholarship program. If you have any concerns and questions, please write to us at gdpr@tyd-fo.co.uk.