Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program

Applications are invited from the students belong to developing countries for the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship program 2015. Applicants should hold a bachelors's degree earned before 2012 and should have at least 3 years of development related experience since earning a Bachelors degree.

Course Level

Scholarships are available for pursuing a Masters Degree.

Eligibility

• Applicants should belong to a developing country with a single citizenship 
• Should hold a Bachelors Degree earned before 2012.
• Should have at least 3 years of development-related experience
• Must returned to your home country after graduation
• Those receiving a scholarship are barred from working at the World Bank Group for three years following graduation from the preferred masters program.
• Must be a national of World Bank member country country eligible to borrow.
• Must be in good health, as certified by a medical doctor, with respect to the capacity to be a productive scholar for the duration of the masters program.

How to apply

There are two ways for citizens of developing countries to apply for the scholarship

1. For a scholarship to a partner scholarship program, you should apply to at least one of the partner university program.The university will send the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat a short list of eligible candidates that have been accepted by the partner program, and the JJ/WBGSP Steering Committee will award scholarships to a subset.
2. For scholarship to a preferred masters programs, you need to apply to the university to get accepted into the program and also apply directly to JJ/WBGSP for the scholarship.

Selection Criteria

JJ/WBGSP uses the following process to review completed applications, with the aim to identify the candidates with the highest potential after completion of their graduate study to impact the development of their country through the public and private sector delivery of public goods and services.

Two qualified assessors independently review each eligible application and score the application on a scale 1 to 10, taking into account four main factors and the degree of cohesion among them:

1. Quality of Professional Experience(30% weight)
2. Quality of Professional Recommendations(30% weight)
3. Quality of Commitment to your Home Country(30% weight)
4. Quality of Education background(10% weight)

Benefits

The scholarship is fully funded by the Government of Japan, and provides for the recipient only the following benefits:

• Economy class air travel between your home country and the host university at the start if your study program and immediately following the end of the scholarship period. In addition to the two-way air travel, you will receive a US $500 travel allowance for each trip
• tuition for your graduate program and the cost of basic medical insurance usually obtained through the university. please note that all our partner and preferred masters programs are 2 years or less and the scholarship covers the duration of the program
• a monthly subsistence allowance to cover living expenses, including books, while you are studying at the preferred masters program. The amount of the allowance varies depending on the host country.

The JJ/WBGSP scholarship does not cover:

• expenses for the scholar's family;
• extra-curricular courses or traning;
• language training that is not provided by the graduate program;
• additional travel during the course of the study program;
• expenses related to research, supplementary educational materials, field trips, participation in workshops/seminars, or internships;
• educational equipment such as computers.

Note: The JJ?WBGSP scholarship may only supplement, and does not duplicate, any other source of financial support/fellowship you might have. If selected as a finalist or if you are awarded a scholarshop, you must inform the JJ/WBGSP if you have other sources of scholarship funds. The JJ/WBGSP stipend may be withdrawn completely or partially if during the scholarship period the Program has evidence of additional sources of support.

Application Deadline

19 March,2015

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