World Bank Scholarships

The World Bank Scholarships Programme aims to contributes to the World Bank Groups’s mission of forging new dynamic approaches to capacity development and knowledge sharing in the developing world. The programme has helped trained over 6,000 students which aids in acquiring professional experience harnessed toward transforming their countries and positively impacting future generations.

However currently ongoing is the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJWBGSP).

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The Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP)

The scholarship open to women and men from developing countries with relevant professional experience and a history of supporting their countries’ development efforts who are applying to a master degree program in a development-related topic.   

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JJWBGSP offers scholarships for 30 Preferred Programs spanning a wide array of development topics and for 10 Partner Programs at universities in U.S, Africa and Japan in key areas of development, including economic policy management, tax policy, and infrastructure management.

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Also see >>> World Bank Young Professionals Program.

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Eligibility Criteria

• Be a national of a World Bank member developing country on this list;
• Not hold dual citizenship of any developed country;
• Be in good health;
• Hold a Bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree earned at least 3 years prior to the Application Deadline date;
• Have 3 years or more of recent development-related work experience after earning a Bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree;
• Be employed in development-related work in a paid full- time position at the time of submitting the scholarship application.  The only exception to this criterion is for developing country nationals from a country that will be on the updated list of Fragile and Conflict States provided to applicants in the Application Guidelines for each call for scholarships.
• On or before the Scholarship Application Deadline date, be admitted unconditionally (except for funding) for the upcoming academic year to at least one of the JJ/WBGSP preferred university master’s programs located outside of the applicant’s country of citizenship and country of residence listed at the time the call for scholarship applications opens. The letter of admission must be uploaded before submitting your application. For details, see “How to Apply”.
• Not be an Executive Director, his/her alternate, and/or staff of any type of appointment of the World Bank Group or a close relative of the aforementioned by blood or adoption with the term “close relative” defined as: Mother, Father, Sister, Half-sister, Brother, Half-brother, Son, Daughter, Aunt, Uncle, Niece, or Nephew.

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How to Apply

The application for the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program is to be done online via the official scholarship website. To find more and kick-start application for the scholarship see below.

Application Deadline: Ongoing.

Visit official website >>> Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program.