Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program 2025 (Windows 2) for Developing Countries Nationals (Fully Funded)

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Application Deadline: May 23, 2025 at 12:00 midday EST

Applications at the moment are open for the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program 2025 (Windows 2). The JJ/WBGSP is open to residents of sure developing countries with related skilled expertise and a historical past of supporting their international locations’ growth efforts who’re making use of to a grasp’s diploma program in a development-related matter.   

Subject to out there funding, JJ/WBGSP provides 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.

The applicant should meet the next eligibility standards:

• Be a nationwide of an eligible World Bank member nation listed in Annex 1 of those Guidelines.
• Not be a twin citizen of any developed nation.
• On or after the date of the decision for scholarship functions opens, not be an Executive Director, his/her alternate, and/or employees of any kind of appointment (together with non permanent and guide) of the World Bank Group (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, and International Center for Settlements of Investment Disputes); or not be a detailed 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. • Hold a bachelor’s diploma (or equal college diploma) earned a minimum of three years earlier than the date of the Application Deadline.
• Be employed in development-related work in a paid full-time place on the time of submitting the scholarship application. Have a minimum of three years of paid developmentrelated employment since incomes a bachelor’s diploma (or equal college diploma) and bought throughout the previous six years from the date of the Application Deadline. Please see FAQs on how one can rely certified part-time employment towards this 3-year requirement. Please see Annex 2 for a steered record of development-related subjects. Nationals from a fragile and/or conflict-affected nation are additionally requested to add proofs of their successive employments however we do consider the restricted employment Opportunities in FCS international locations listed in Annex 3.
• On or earlier than the scholarship application deadline date, have been admitted unconditionally (besides for funding) for the upcoming tutorial 12 months to a minimum of one of many JJ/WBGSP Participating Programs (window 2) and situated outdoors of the applicant’s nation of citizenship and nation of residence.
• 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 offers the recipient with the next advantages:

• Economy class air journey between your home nation and the host college initially of your study program and instantly following the top 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 observe all JJ/WBGSP scholarships cowl the period of the graduate program or two years, whichever is much less.

Application Procedure:

An application might be accepted and reviewed if the applicant submits just one accomplished application electronically by way of the JJ/WBGSP application portal by the W2 application deadline: May 23, 2025 at 12:00 midday EST.

An application is taken into account full if it consists of:

• Two skilled advice letters, submitted on-line, from individuals who have direct data of the applicant’s skilled work expertise.
• One accomplished application kind (which incorporates an applicant’s settlement to situations acknowledged on the signature web page of the application kind) that’s written in both in English or the language of their grasp’s diploma program. (For instance, a accomplished application kind written in French by an applicant who’s searching for a scholarship to study at a college within the USA or the United Kingdom won’t be reviewed).
• Among different info, 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 current development-related work. (See FAQs for particulars relating to the extent and kind 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 instead for a diploma).
  (iii) C.V. utilizing the format supplied in Annex 4 and written in English (or French for the GPE program at FERDI solely). If the work was not paid, don’t embrace it in your CV. Instead, you possibly can create a class “Volunteer Work” in your CV and record beneath that heading unpaid internships or different unpaid work.
  (iv) unconditional (besides for financing) Letter of Admission for the upcoming tutorial 12 months to the JJ/WBGSP collaborating grasp’s program: • which is amongst these listed on the JJ/WBGSP web site; • for which the applicant is searching for JJ/WBGSP funding; and • that’s situated outdoors of the applicant’s nation of citizenship and nation of residence.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program 2025 (Windows 2)