Location: USA, Europe, Africa, Oceania and Japan
Program: Postgraduate – Master’s Degree
Eligibility: International Students
Duration: Duration of Graduate Program
Deadline: May 29, 2026
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The Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP) is a prestigious scholarship open to citizens of certain World Bank member developing countries with relevant professional experience and a history of supporting their countries’ development efforts, who are applying to a master’s degree programme in a development-related topic. Subject to available funding, the JJ/WBGSP offers scholarships for 44 participating master’s programmes across 24 universities in the United States, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and Japan, covering key areas of development including economic policy management, tax policy, and infrastructure management.
The World Bank Group is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, with a mission to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity on a liveable planet. Through the JJ/WBGSP, the World Bank and the Government of Japan invest in the next generation of development professionals from the world’s most underserved communities, enabling exceptional individuals to gain world-class graduate education and return to their home countries to apply their new skills and contribute to social and economic development. After earning their degree, developing country scholars commit to return to their home country to use their new skills and contribute to their countries’ social and economic development.
Benefits of the Scholarship
This scholarship will provide the following to its recipients:
- Economy class air travel between the home country and the host university at the start of the study programme and immediately following the end of the scholarship period.
- $600 travel allowance for each trip
- Tuition for the graduate programme and the cost of basic medical insurance obtained through the university
- A monthly subsistence allowance to cover all living expenses including accommodations, food, and books, with the amount varying depending on the host country
- Other benefits
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Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for this scholarship, applicants must meet the following:
- Must be a national of a World Bank member developing country on the eligible countries list and must not hold dual citizenship of any developed country
- Must be in good health
- Must hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent earned at least 3 years prior to the application deadline date
- Must be employed in development-related work in a paid full-time position at the time of submitting the scholarship application, with at least 3 years of paid development-related employment since earning a bachelor’s degree and acquired within the past 6 years from the application deadline date
- Must be admitted unconditionally (except for funding) for the upcoming academic year to at least one of the JJ/WBGSP participating master’s programmes located outside the applicant’s country of citizenship and country of residence before the scholarship application deadline
- Must not be an Executive Director, alternate, or staff of any type of appointment of the World Bank Group, or a close relative of the aforementioned
- Individuals who have previously been offered a JJ/WBGSP scholarship but declined it, or received the scholarship but did not graduate, are not eligible to apply again
Note: Kindly check the official webpage for full and detailed requirements
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Selection Criteria
Two qualified assessors independently review each eligible application and score it on a scale of 1 to 10, taking into account four main factors: quality of professional experience (30% weight), quality of professional recommendations (30% weight), quality of commitment to the home country (30% weight), and quality of education background (10% weight), with the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat using the average score of the two assessors alongside additional considerations including geographical distribution of awards, gender distribution, unusual circumstances or hardships, and preference for applicants with limited access to financial resources for graduate studies abroad, before presenting the list of finalists to the JJ/WBGSP Steering Committee for approval.
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to visit the official webpage and submit your application.
