Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: February 27, 2026

Applications are open for the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program 2026. 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’ growth efforts who’re making use of to a grasp’s diploma program in a growth-associated subject.

Subject to accessible funding, JJ/WBGSP presents scholarships for 44 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.

Scholarship

The JJ/WBGSP scholarship gives 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-manner air journey, students will obtain a US $600 journey allowance for every journey;
• Tuition in your graduate program and the price of primary medical insurance coverage obtained by way of the college.
• While on campus in the course of the scholarship interval, a month-to-month subsistence allowance to cowl all dwelling bills (lodging, meals, and so forth., 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 on this list;
• Not maintain twin citizenship of any developed nation;
• Be in good well being;
• Hold a bachelor’s (or equal) diploma earned at the very least 3 years previous to the Application Deadline date;
• Be employed in growth-associated work in a paid full- time place on the time of submitting the scholarship application. Have at the very least 3 years of paid growth-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.

Selection Process

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

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

• Quality {of professional} expertise (30% weight)
• Quality {of professional} suggestions (30% weight)
• Quality of dedication to your home nation (30% weight)
• Quality of training 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 huge geographical distribution of awards
• Maintaining an inexpensive distribution of awards throughout gender
• Unusual circumstances/hardships, when assessing the employment expertise and different points of an application;
• Giving scholarships to these candidates who, different issues being equal, have restricted entry to monetary sources for graduate research overseas.

Application

The hyperlink to the JJ/WBGSP application kind will solely be communicated to candidates admitted unconditionally (aside from finance) to one of many JJ/WBGSP taking part grasp’s applications and shortlisted as eligible JJ/WBGSP candidates by the taking part college. Potential candidates are invited to succeed in out to the college providing the JJ/WBGSP taking part grasp program they’re focusing on to search out out in the event that they meet these two necessities.

Click here for the application guidelines

For extra info, go to Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship.