Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2025

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

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

Scholarship

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

• Economy class air journey between your home nation and the host college firstly of your study program and instantly following the tip of the scholarship interval. In addition to the 2-means air journey, students will obtain a US $600 journey allowance for every journey;
• Tuition on your graduate program and the price of primary medical insurance coverage obtained via the college.
• While on campus through the scholarship interval, a month-to-month subsistence allowance to cowl all dwelling bills (lodging, meals, and many others., together with books). The quantity of the allowance varies relying on the host nation.

Eligibility

• Be a nationwide of a World Bank member growing nation;
• Not maintain twin citizenship of any developed nation;
• Be in good well being;
• Hold a bachelor’s (or equal) diploma earned a minimum of 3 years previous to the Application Deadline date;
• Be employed in improvement-associated work in a paid full- time place on the time of submitting the scholarship application. Have a minimum of 3 years of paid improvement-associated employment since incomes a bachelor’s diploma (or equal college diploma) and purchased inside the previous 6 years from the date of the application deadline. The solely exception to this criterion is for growing nation nationals from a rustic that’s on the record of Fragile and Conflict States featured in Annex 3 of the Application Guidelines. In such instances, they do consider the restricted employment alternatives in these international locations.
• On or earlier than the scholarship application deadline date, be admitted unconditionally (aside from funding) for the upcoming tutorial yr to a minimum of one of many JJ/WBGSP taking part grasp’s applications situated exterior 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 employees of any sort 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, should not eligible to apply once more.

Selection Process

The JJ/WBGSP makes use of the next course of to assessment eligible scholarship purposes from growing nation nationals, with the purpose of figuring out the candidates with the very best potential, after completion of their graduate research, to influence the event of their international locations.

Two certified assessors independently assessment every eligible application and rating the application on a scale of 1 to 10, taking into consideration 4 primary components and the diploma of cohesion amongst them:

• Quality of Professional Experience (30% weight)
• Quality of Professional Recommendations (30% weight)
• Quality of Commitment to your Home Country (30% weight)
• Quality of Education Background (10% weight)

The JJ/WBGSP Secretariat makes use of the common rating of the 2 assessors and the next standards to pick out the finalists:

• Maintaining a fairly extensive geographical distribution of awards
• Maintaining an inexpensive distribution of awards throughout gender
• Unusual circumstances/hardships, when assessing the employment expertise and different facets of an application;
• Giving scholarships to these candidates who, different issues being equal, have restricted entry to monetary assets for graduate research overseas.

Application

Window 1 will open from January 13 to February 28, 2025 at 12:00 midday EST.

Download the application guidelines

For extra data, go to JJ/WBGSP.