IB Diploma Programme

The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the IB works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right. 

Statistically IB Students:

• Are more engaged in high school
• Enter college/university at higher rates than their non-IB peers
• Graduate college/university sooner and in higher rates than their non-IB peers
• Are accepted to premier colleges and universities at higher rates than their non-IB peers

One advantage for students taking IB courses is the potential ability to earn college credit. Each college and university has its own policy regarding how they recognize IB examinations and scores when issuing college credit. 

In all IB courses there are a number of internal and external assessments throughout that year. These assessments focus on performance tasks that  include, but are not limited to:

• Essays
• Structured problems
• Short-response questions
• Case-study questions
• Oral work in languages
• Laboratory work in the sciences
• Artistic performances

While the internal assessments happen at different times for each course throughout the year, external assessments take place in May of each year and are standardized assessments moderated by readers across the world. Students register for their assessments in the fall.