Key Features of a UWC College

The long-term goal is to create greater international understanding among future generations of the world’s decision-makers by bringing together promising students from diverse cultures and supporting their education while they live and work together. 

Each UWC

• Brings together about 200 outstanding students from around the world to live and work together for the last two years of their secondary education,
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• Provides a rigorous academic programme,
   
• Encourages commitment to humanitarian and environmental values with substantial educational, environmental and social service projects,
   
• Has student selection based on merit, with scholarship funding for each student,
   
• Has an international network of national committees in 124 countries select the students.

Selection to attend UWC is akin to a Rhodes Scholarship or Harkness Fellowship for young people aged 17-19yrs.

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