UWC schools and colleges deliver a challenging and transformational educational experience to a deliberately diverse group of young people guided by UWC’S core values.
Inspired by the pioneering German educationalist Kurt Hahn, UWC was founded in 1962, with the aim to promote peace.
Today, 18 UWC schools and colleges on 4 continents offer world class education to students from over 100 nationalities. While four of them include children and young people aged 2-19, the majority focus on the 16-19 year old age group and teach the worldwide recognized International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma. Community services, creative activities and outdoor challenges play an integral part of UWC’s experiential approach to education.
UWC believes in deliberate diversity and the importance of education being independent of the student’s socio-economic means. Currently, over 80% of National Committee-selected UWC students in the IB Diploma years receive either full or partial financial assistance.
UWC students are selected based on potential through UWC’s unique national committee system: a network of more than 4,000 dedicated volunteers who promote the UWC movement, find, interview and select students in more than 155 countries. Learn how to apply here!
A UWC education is the beginning of a lifelong journey guided by the UWC mission to contribute to a more peaceful and sustainable future. To date, UWC has inspired a worldwide network of more than 60,000 alumni, working and acting across the globe in a vast spectrum of areas towards a more peaceful and sustainable future.
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