Overview
Côte d'Ivoire's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is inviting Ivorian students and professionals to the University of Tsukuba's Program in Economic and Public Policy scholarship-admission round, whose detailed university schedule identifies October 2027 enrollment and an application window from 1 October to 15 November 2026.
Complete scholarship details
PEPP is a 24-month master's programme in economic and public policy in Japan. For candidates who qualify for the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program route, the University of Tsukuba lists full tuition and fees, a monthly living stipend, national health insurance, and round-trip economy air travel between the home country and Japan plus a travel allowance for each one-way trip. Scholarship eligibility and final scholarship selection are separate from programme admission.
Eligibility requirements
PEPP applicants must hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent and normally have completed 16 years of education, demonstrate oral and written English proficiency, and be in good health. For the World Bank scholarship route, applicants must also meet the current JJ/WBGSP rules, including nationality of an eligible World Bank country; Côte d'Ivoire appears on the current eligible-country list. Additional World Bank criteria include no developed-country dual citizenship, a qualifying bachelor's degree earned at least three years before the application deadline, and the required recent development-related work experience, subject to the programme's stated exceptions.
Tips for this scholarship
Practical Job and Scholarship guidance. These tips do not replace official rules or create new eligibility requirements.
- Check eligibility, funding coverage, study/project level and every required document before investing time in the application.
- Prepare transcripts, references, language tests, proposal/motivation statement and proof documents early.
- Separate the scholarship deadline from any university/program admission deadline; they may be different.
- Treat “fully funded” as a source fact only when the official provider explicitly confirms the covered costs.
Verification notes
Verified against the Côte d'Ivoire Ministry's signed 20 August 2026 communiqué, the ministry scholarship-detail page, the University of Tsukuba PEPP scholarship-admission page, PEPP's official scholarship-support page, and the World Bank's current JJ/WBGSP eligible-country list. The ministry communiqué explicitly addresses Ivorian students/professionals and states applications run 1 October–15 November 2026. PEPP's detailed current heading and schedule identify October 2027 enrollment and close at 23:59 JST on 15 November 2026; an introductory PEPP sentence still says 'October 2026 enrollment', so this inconsistency is recorded rather than hidden. The ADB-JSP route mentioned generically by the ministry/university was not asserted for Côte d'Ivoire; this record describes the World Bank route because Côte d'Ivoire is explicitly on the current JJ/WBGSP eligible-country list. Repository source/title searches and fresh public-site searches found no matching canonical record immediately before publication.
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