SCO Digi-Face Scholarships

The Master of Business Research (MBR) is a two-year masters programme at the University of Nairobi’s Department of Management Science and Project Planning, Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, offered in collaboration with Kuehne Logistics University, Hamburg. The scholarships are offered through the Africa Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Operations for Resource Management and Food Supply (SCO), established with financial support from DAAD. The programme provides advanced training in research skills, techniques, and methodologies for original business research.

Applicants must meet eligibility criteria and must already be admitted into the MBR programme for the specified academic year. Eligible applicants are nationals of Kenya, Tanzania, and Ghana. The programme focuses on business research within logistics, operations management, and efficiency of food and agricultural supply chains and related subjects.

Selection is based on meeting the listed eligibility criteria and submitting the required application documents. Only shortlisted applicants are contacted for oral interviews.

Support runs on a full-time basis across the two academic years, starting in September and ending in August, with the first year dedicated to coursework and proposal development and the second year dedicated to research work, including data collection and preparing publication papers and a final thesis report. The scholarship covers tuition fees, research costs, and a stipend in line with DAAD scholarship regulations.

• Earned BSc/BA or MA/MBA/MSc, or a related degree in business studies, business administration, entrepreneurship, agribusiness management, economics, operations management, management science, supply chains, and related fields.
• Outstanding academic performance with Second Class Upper Division or above for an undergraduate degree, or an equivalent GPA score.
• Already admitted into the programme for the academic year indicated in the application call.
• Experience in undertaking basic research in agribusiness, business, supply chains, operations management, or related fields is an added advantage.
• Basic analytical and research skills using relevant data analysis software.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Nationality of Kenya, Tanzania, or Ghana.

• Tuition fees.
• Research costs.
• A stipend for the period from September to August, in line with DAAD scholarship regulations.

1. Prepare a single merged PDF containing all required application documents.
2. Send the merged PDF by email attachment to [email protected].
3. Send a copy to [email protected] and to [email protected].
4. Submit the application on or before the stated application deadline.
5. After submission, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for oral interviews.

• Hand-signed motivation letter of not more than 1 page, written in Times New Roman, font size 12, single spaced.
• Copies of academic degree certificates.
• Copies of academic transcripts, including the grading scale, and school final national exam certificates.
• Admission letter for the academic year indicated in the application call.
• Two letters of recommendation from senior academic persons conversant with the applicant’s academic background; each must be on a letterhead, hand-signed and officially stamped, and of recent date.
• Copy of curriculum vitae.