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United World College

United World Colleges
United World Colleges logo.svg
Location
United Kingdom, Llantwit Major, Wales
United World College of the Atlantic
(founded 1962)

Canada, Victoria
Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific
(founded 1974)

Singapore
United World College of South East Asia
Dover
(founded 1971, joined UWC 1975)
East
(founded 2011)

Swaziland, Mbabane
Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa
(founded 1963, joined UWC 1981)

United States, Montezuma, New Mexico
Armand Hammer United World College of the American West
(founded 1982)

Italy, Duino
United World College of the Adriatic
(founded 1982)

Hong Kong, Wu Kai Sha
Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong
(founded 1992)

Norway, Flekke
Red Cross Nordic United World College
(founded 1995)

India, Paud
Mahindra United World College of India
(founded 1997)

Costa Rica, Santa Ana
United World College of Costa Rica
(founded 2000, joined UWC 2006)

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mostar
United World College in Mostar
(founded 2006)

The Netherlands, Maastricht
United World College Maastricht
(founded 1984, joined UWC 2009)

Germany, Freiburg
Robert Bosch United World College
(founded 2014)

Armenia, Dilijan
United World College Dilijan
(founded 2014)

China, Changshu
United World College Changshu China
(founded 2015)

Thailand, Phuket
UWC Thailand
(founded 2008, joined UWC 2016)
Information
Type School, colleges and short programmes
Established 1960
Founder Kurt Hahn
President Queen Noor of Jordan (Current)
Nelson Mandela (Former)
Prince Charles (Former)
Lord Mountbatten (Former)
Website

United World Colleges (or UWC) is an educational organisation with which schools, shorter educational programmes, national committees in more than 150 countries are affiliated. UWC schools, colleges and national committees offer scholarship and bursary schemes as well as accepting a number of fee-paying students that varies by college.

Based in the United Kingdom, the UWC organisation has 17 schools and colleges in Canada, India, Italy, Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Armenia, Costa Rica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Thailand, China (mainland and Hong Kong), the Netherlands and Japan; national committees in more than 150 countries; a portfolio of short programmes running in numerous countries; a network of nearly 60,000 alumni from more than 181 countries; and an international office in London.

Most UWC colleges offer the International Baccalaureate exclusively, and as such only offer two-year programmes. Four schools in Thailand, Singapore, the Netherlands and Swaziland also teach a pre-16 syllabus to younger students. The now-closed UWC vocational college in Venezuela accepted students at tertiary level and taught a Higher Diploma in Farm Administration. Each UWC typically comprises between 200 and 300 students from about 85 countries.

The first UWC college, the United World College of the Atlantic, located in a 12th-century castle set on 90 hectares of grounds in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, United Kingdom, was founded in 1962 by Kurt Hahn, a German educationalist who had previously founded Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, Gordonstoun in Scotland, and the Outward Bound movement.


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