Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program 2025 for Developing Countries Nationals (Fully Funded)

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Application Deadline: February 28, 2025 

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program. The JJ/WBGSP is open to residents of sure developing countries with related skilled expertise and a historical past of supporting their nations’ growth efforts who’re making use of to a grasp’s diploma program in a development-related matter.   

Subject to obtainable funding, JJ/WBGSP gives scholarships for 41 Participating Master’s Programs in 24 universities within the U.S., Europe, Africa, Oceania and Japan in key areas of growth, together with financial coverage administration, tax coverage, and infrastructure administration.

Eligibility Requirements

Broadly talking, Developing Country nationals should:

• Be a nationwide of a World Bank member creating nation on this list;
• Not maintain twin citizenship of any developed nation;
• Be in good well being;
• Hold a bachelor’s (or equal) diploma earned no less than 3 years previous to the Application Deadline date;
• Be employed in development-related work in a paid full- time place on the time of submitting the scholarship application. Have no less than 3 years of paid development-related employment since incomes a bachelor’s diploma (or equal college diploma) and bought inside the previous 6 years from the date of the application deadline.
• On or earlier than the scholarship application deadline date, be admitted unconditionally (besides for funding) for the upcoming educational 12 months to no less than one of many JJ/WBGSP participating master’s programs positioned outdoors of the applicant’s nation of citizenship and nation of residence listed on the time the decision for scholarship purposes opens. The letter of admission have to be uploaded earlier than submitting the scholarship application. 
• Not be an Executive Director, his/her alternate, and/or workers of any kind of appointment of the World Bank Group or an in depth relative of the aforementioned by blood or adoption with the time period “close relative” outlined as: Mother, Father, Sister, Half-sister, Brother, Half-brother, Son, Daughter, Aunt, Uncle, Niece, or Nephew.
• Individuals who’ve beforehand been provided a JJ/WBGSP scholarship however declined it, or have beforehand obtained a JJ/WBGSP scholarship however didn’t graduate, usually are not eligible to apply once more.

Benefits

The JJ/WBGSP scholarship supplies the recipient with the next advantages:

• Economy class air journey between your home nation and the host college at first of your study program and instantly following the tip of the scholarship interval. In addition to the two-way air journey, students will obtain a US $600 journey allowance for every journey;
• Tuition for your graduate program and the price of fundamental medical insurance coverage obtained by way of the college.
• While on campus through the scholarship interval, a month-to-month subsistence allowance to cowl all residing bills (lodging, meals, and so on., together with books). The quantity of the allowance varies relying on the host nation.

Please be aware all JJ/WBGSP scholarships cowl the period of the graduate program or two years, whichever is much less.

The JJ/WBGSP scholarship doesn’t cowl:

• Visa application(s) prices
• Expenses to carry and/or help a scholar’s members of the family;
• Extra-curricular programs or coaching;
• Courses that don’t meet the minimal credit required to earn the graduate diploma;
• Language coaching not supplied by the graduate program;
• Additional journey through the course of the study program;
• Expenses associated to analysis, supplementary academic supplies, area journeys, participation in workshops/seminars, or internships; or
• Educational tools reminiscent of computer systems.
• Resident allow payment

Note: The JJ/WBGSP scholarship could solely complement, and doesn’t duplicate, another supply of economic help/fellowship you may need. If you have been awarded one other scholarship or fellowship, you need to ship the paperwork pertaining to this different scholarship/fellowship to the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat. 

Application Procedure

An application shall be accepted and reviewed if the applicant submits just one accomplished application electronically by way of the web application website by the Application Deadline: February 28, 2025 (for Window 1 packages solely). An application is taken into account full if it consists of: a. and b.

• Two suggestion letters, submitted on-line, from individuals who have direct information of the applicant’s skilled work expertise.
• One accomplished Application Form (which incorporates an applicant’s settlement to circumstances acknowledged on the Signature Page of the Application Form) that’s written in both in English or the language of their grasp’s diploma program. (For instance, a accomplished Application Form written in French by an applicant who’s in search of a scholarship to attend a most well-liked college within the United Kingdom is not going to be reviewed).
• Among different data, finishing the Application Form consists of importing scanned copies of:
• (i) documentation that proves the applicant meets the eligibility requirement with regard to the variety of years of latest development-related work. (See FAQs for particulars concerning the extent and sort of documentation required to be uploaded)
• (ii) the applicant’s bachelor’s diploma diploma, and if relevant, additionally the diploma of the applicant’s most superior graduate diploma. (Do not embrace a transcript or add a transcript as an alternative for a diploma).
• (iii) C.V. utilizing the format supplied in Annex 4 and written in English or the language of the grasp’s diploma program for which the applicant is in search of JJ/WBGSP funding. If the work was not paid, don’t embrace it in your CV. Instead, you’ll be able to create a class “Volunteer Work” in your CV and listing beneath that heading unpaid internships or different unpaid work.
• (iv) unconditional (besides for financing) Letter of Admission for the upcoming educational 12 months to the JJ/WBGSP taking part grasp’s program: • which is amongst these listed on the JJ/WBGSP web site; • for which the applicant is in search of JJ/WBGSP funding; and • that’s positioned outdoors of the applicant’s nation of citizenship and nation of residence. (See Annex 5 for larger readability with regard to what’s meant by “unconditional”.)

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program