Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Undergraduate, Masters & PhD Scholarship Programme 2025/2026 (Fully Funded)

Application Deadline: fifth April 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025/2026 Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Undergraduate, Masters & PhD Scholarship Programme. The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) funds and implements its scholarship programmes as part of its total efforts to develop the human assets of its member nations and people of the Muslim communities in non-member nations.

Objective

The Programmes are vital elements of the developmental initiatives led by the Bank since 1983 to foster know-how and information sharing amongst its member nations and Muslim communities in non-member nations. They are designed to draw gifted female and male college students and as a way to construct the precise competencies required with a particular deal with sustainability sciences to empower communities and to help them in reaching their nationwide and world growth plans together with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  The motto is to develop the scholars/researchers as Good Citizens & Competent Professionals (GCCPs).

The IsDB Scholarship Programme is greater than only a scholarship programme within the conventional sense of a straight monetary help to the excellent and certified college students. It can be a software for the development of the socio-economic circumstances of the Member Countries and Muslim communities. It is mainly a scholarship programme and a growth programme on the similar time, because the scholarship is given as an interest-free-loan (Qard Hasan) to the scholars and as a grant to their communities /nations to which they belong.

The college students are required to fulfil the obligations detailed, underneath every programme, after commencement and gainful employment. Besides, the scholars are additionally required to take part within the growth of their communities/nations, via their respective professions. The repaid fund might be used to supply scholarships to different college students from the identical neighborhood/nation to enrich the IsDB Programme and to make sure its continuity in the long term, whereas the neighborhood growth companies rendered by the scholars and graduates will contribute to the general growth of the neighborhood/nation.

Place of Study

Consistent with the idea of the Programme, the admission is solely the accountability of the scholar. Selected college students should receive admission from one of many high 10 public/authorities universities in their very own nations.

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Meanwhile, for some college students who couldn’t safe admission in their very own nations, because of any unavoidable scenario, the IsDB could search admission in member nations having settlement with the IsDB. The last determination of the admission of any pupil underneath these agreements is topic to the acceptance by the respective universities in these nations. 

Benefits

The programme covers the next objects: 

• Monthly stipend commensurate with the price of residing of the nation of study.  
• Tuition charges, if any, topic to IsDB’s approval.
• Cost of medical therapy at college/authorities hospital.
• Economy class return air tickets (as soon as on the time of becoming a member of and on completion of study) and set up and tools allowance for the scholars chosen to study overseas at partnered universities/nations.

There are six scholarship programmes provided by IsDB:

• IsDB-The World Academy of Science (TWAS) Joint Programme for Capacity Building and Technology Transfer
• Undergraduate  
• Master’s
• PhD and Post-Doctoral Research Programme
• IsDB-ISFD for Technical Vocational Education & Training (TVET) for 21 Least Developed Member Countries (LDMCs):  Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somali, Sudan, Togo, Uganda and Yemen
• IsDB-ISFD Bachelor studies for 21 LDMCs as talked about in No. 4 above

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Scholarship Programme