The IB Diploma Program (IBDP) is a two-year program for students aged 16-19 and is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious and challenging pre-university programs, accepted in over 3,300 universities in 90 countries. IBDP students have the opportunity to earn up to 24 college credit hours based on exams and coursework!

The IBDP is designed to promote international understanding and meet the needs of highly-motivated students by having a metacognitive approach to learning that helps students develop the higher-order thinking strategies needed to become lifelong independent learners.  Students are expected to make connections between different academic disciplines and not to study subjects in isolation.  This is based on the belief that the total educational experience is more than the sum of its parts.

Reflection on the core activities is a principle that lies at the heart of the thinking behind the IB Diploma Program.  Strongly committed to the principle of developing the whole person, the IB believes that this is best achieved by identifying and developing clearer and more explicit aims for, and relationships between, the theory of knowledge (TOK), creativity/activity/service (CAS), and the extended essay.  Universities value the core experiences and have specifically mentioned them when discussing student acceptances and scholarship awards.

Access the GHS IBDP handbook

https://ibo.org/

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