Half a million students across the world

Students at Eyüboglu School, Turkey

Almost forty years ago a group of talented teachers from international schools around the world got together to create a curriculum and a diploma that would facilitate the international mobility of students preparing for university. What started as a single programme grew into three programmes for students aged 3 to 19. Today we can celebrate the fact that half a million students from state or private schools in over 120 countries now experience IB programmes.

Students from Bandung International School, Indonesia

The founders of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme never imagined that their aspiration of educating future world leaders, who might understand that “others, with their differences, can also be right”, would transform into a continuum of international education now reaching half a million students of such a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, languages, ideas and aims in life. Even more remarkably, the organization has never promoted itself to achieve this growth—it is IB World Schools that have made it possible to show that high quality education, experienced by many more students, really does have the potential to create a more peaceful world.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following IB World Schools for submitting photographs to help us celebrate this achievement in promotional material, IB World magazine and around the world in the organization’s regional offices.

Aga Khan Academy, Nairobi, Kenya

The Ahiyyah School for Girls, Jordan

American International School, Austria

American Community School, United Arab Emirates

American School of The Hague, Netherlands

The Australian International Academy, Australia

Bahrain School, Bahrain

Bandung International School, Indonesia

Birkeröd Gymnasiam, Denmark

British International School, Vietnam

Cambridge High School, Jordan

Cardinal Newman High School, USA