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

評選標準: contact the university

Application requirement details: contact the university

Study level you are applying for: Postgraduate

The scholarship includes full tuition fees, a monthly living stipend, round-trip air tickets and travel allowance. Upon completion of the program, JJ/WBGSP scholars must immediately return to their home countries to apply their new skills to their countries' social and economic development.

Who is eligible

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:

have accepted an unconditional offer for one of the 'Eligible Courses' at Sussex (listed below)

be a national of one of the eligible countries as set out by the World Bank

hold a Bachelors (or equivalent) degree earned at least 3 years prior to application deadline

have at least 3 years of paid development-related employment since earning a Bachelors degree (or equivalent university degree) and acquired within the past 6 years from the date of the application deadline (for guidance for applicants from Fragile and Conflict States please see Annex 3 of the Application Guidelines)

be employed in development-related work in a paid full-time position at the time of submitting the scholarship application

Who isn't eligible

You are not eligible for this scholarship if you:

hold dual citizenship of a developed country

are 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

have previously been offered a JJ/WBGSP scholarship but declined it, or have previously received a JJ/WBGSP scholarship but did not graduate

Eligible courses

You can only apply for nomination by the University of Sussex to the JJ/WBGSP if you have received an unconditional offer on one of the below courses:

Climate Change, Development and Policy

Environment, Development and Policy

Food and Development

Migration and Global Development