Effects of photo-excitation and spin-wave scattering on magnetization of the diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) ( Ga , Mn ) As are theoretically studied. Green function formalism is used to find expression for magnetization and ferromagnetic transition temperature TC starting with a model Hamiltonian consisting of magnons, photons and an interaction of magnons with photons. According to our calculation, there is TC in the absence of magnetic impurity, x = 0, indicating that there could be electronically unpaired influential carriers/holes induced by photon irradiation resulting in residual itinerant band magnetization which can be revealed by experiments. Unusual upturn in magnetization near 0 K temperature values for larger magnon–photon coupling constant is also indicated. Moreover, enhancement of magnetization is established with increase in impurity concentration and even further in the presence of photon–magnon coupling which however decreases due to spin-wave scattering. This leads to the conclusion that at lower temperatures photon irradiation and at higher temperatures spin-wave scattering could affect the system properties predominantly.