SCHOOL PROFILE 2020-2021

4-19 900+ 100+ ENGLISH-MEDIUM FOUNDED 2012 CUSTOM- KINDERGARTEN > UWC MAASTRICHT STUDENTS NATIONALITIES 2009 BUILT CAMPUS SECONDARY AT A GLANCE THE ONLY UWC SCHOOL UNIQUE LOCATION SERVING OPERATING WITHIN A NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING CONTEXT , BELGIUM AND

40% of the Class of 2021 has been selected to receive a (full or partial) scholarship based on financial need. All students in the Class of 2021 have been selected on the basis of personal values, academic merit and potential SCHOLARSHIPS to positively impact the local and global community. We work with over 160 national committees world wide to 40% select students.

Approximately 80 percent of the Class of 2021 do not speak English as a first language and come from diverse cultural backgrounds, including some who have experienced interrupted ENGLISH or limited education due to migration and/or conflict. The LANGUAGE rigorous IB Diploma Programme can prove particularly challenging for those students who are still developing their LEARNING 80% proficiency in English so as a result, ELL support is provided for students arriving with beginner or pre-intermediate proficiency in English.

At UWC Maastricht we place a lot of importance on learning that happens outside of the classroom. As we are an IB school all of our students complete the elements of CAS (Creativity, Activity and Service). We place particular importance on service and our students have access to opportunities with over 100 external service providers in Maastricht. A large number of our students undertake the challenging International Award. As we are an Eco School many of our students are also involved in work involving the environment and sustainability. CO-CURRICULAR Student leadership is fostered through opportunities like Student Council, Model United AND EXPERIENTIAL Nations and Student Led Initiatives. Student Led Initiatives are conferences that take place on campus throughout the year and cover topics such as International Peace, Sustainability, EDUCATION Theory of Knowledge, The Arts, Science and Gender Issues. Our students also arrange school IN THE IBDP wide Culture Weeks to celebrate the diversity of cultures that we have on our campus. Our students are also exposed to a variety of guest speakers and debates through two forums that we offer “Say What Lectures” and “Global Issues Forum.”

Other opportunities for development that our students are exposed to is Critical Engagement (personal and social skill development); Youth Social Entrepreneurship (covered over 5 days) and Project Weeks.

HIGH SCHOOL 133 323 195 MYP 4 & 5 students IB Diploma Programme students residential IBDP

CLASS OF 2021 164 104 students residential 3 boarding houses

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CLASS OF 2021 - 11 6 2 NATIONALITIES

6 Africa 14 Europe (Non-EU, incl. UK, Russia and Turkey) 31 Asia 9 Middle East 2 Australia and New Zealand 10 North America 55 Europe (EU and EEA) 11 South America and Carribean 26 Dual nationality

High school CEEB Code 759463 Head of College Lodewijk van Oord Deputy Head/Director of Secondary School Kate Doyle UWC MAASTRICHT, University Counselling Office Ingrid Davalos THE NETHERLANDS Alan Nesbit Adam Ortiz Elena Borisova [email protected]

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INTERNATIONAL The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at UWC Maastricht is designed for BACCALAUREATE students aged 16 to 19. Over two years, IB Diploma students study six subjects of their choice, three at standard level and three at higher level. Students also complete three core elements: DIPLOMA Theory of knowledge (TOK), Extended Essay (EE) and Creativity, activity, service (CAS). PROGRAMME Subject offerings in the IB Diploma Programme:

GROUP 1 GROUP 2 GROUP 3 GROUP 4 GROUP 5 GROUP 6 Language A Language B Individuals and Sciences Mathematics Arts Societies Language and Literature Language Acquisition Economics SL/HL Biology SL/HL Mathematics: Analysis Music SL/HL SL/HL SL/HL and approaches SL/HL Arabic Dutch Geography SL/HL Chemistry SL/HL Mathematics: Visual Arts SL/HL Applications and interpretation SL/HL Dutch English Global Politics SL/HL Physics SL/HL Film SL/HL English French History SL/HL Design Technology SL/ HL Spanish Spanish World Arts and Cultures Environmental Systems SL and Societies SL French German Environmental Systems and Societies SL Chinese Literature SL/HL Ab initio SL English French German Spanish Italian German Dutch

The International Baccalaureate Curriculum in our Middle Years Programme enriches students, aged 11 – 16, both inside and outside the classroom. It ensures breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding. All MYP students choose subjects from the following eight groups: Individuals and societies Language & literature Language acquisition education Physical and health

Sciences INTERNATIONAL Mathematics BACCALAUREATE Design Arts MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME

In addition, all MYP students study Dutch language. All MYP students complete Service as Action activities and projects, such as Youth Mayors, Erasmus Project or MUN. All MYP4 students participate in The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award - Bronze. In the final year of MYP, as a way to consolidate the MYP experience, all students complete a Personal Project: an independent exploration into an area of interest, which is externally assessed. All other assessment in the MYP programme at UWC Maastricht is internal.

158 137 76 Total number of candidates Candidates who Billingual diplomas (excluding retake and split received the diploma session candidates) IB DIPLOMA RESULTS - CLASS OF 2020

33 UWC Maastricht 40-45 11 students 35-39 46 students

30-34 46 students World 29,9 24-29 34 students

Average number of points 24 19 students (only students who passed)

88% UWC Maastricht 86% 84% IB DIPLOMA 82% PASS RATE 80% World 78% 2016-2020

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

On average, 40 percent of students SAT I (1600) Students tested: 147 in the Diploma Programme take the Section Middle 50% Mean SAT I exam each year. All scores, including those from non-native Evidence Based Reading and Writing 540 - 670 601 English speakers, are recorded. Math 28 - 36 32 Mathematics 560 - 715 634 Reading 27 - 33 30 Writing 27 - 34 30 Total 1110 - 1395 1235 STANDARDIZED TESTING ACT Students Tested: 18 SAT Subject Section Middle Mean Section Middle 50% Mean Students (2017-2020) 50% tested ELA 0 - 28 16.9 Biology - Ecology 460 - 700 638 5 English 24 - 32 28.6 Biology - Molecular 630 - 700 691 12 Math 26 - 33 29.5 Chemistry 640 - 720 683 18 Reading 21 - 32 26.6 English Literature 640 - 700 662 6 Science 24 - 30 27.3 Math Level I 640 - 740 673 12 STEM 23 - 31 23.0 Math Level II 650 - 780 695 34 Writing 0 - 9 6.1 Physics 690 - 770 734 20 Spanish 630 - 730 690 3 Composite 24 - 30 27.6 World History 610 - 800 697 3

UWC Maastricht graduates from the classes of 2017–2020 have attended MATRICULATION undergraduate programmes in the following colleges and universities, oftentimes having been awarded significant scholarship or financial aid: 2017- 2020

UNITED STATES Arizona State University Dartmouth College St. Lawrence University Bard College Earlham College St. Olaf College Barnard College Emory University The College of Idaho Bates College Franklin & Marshall College The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bennington College Georgetown University The University of Oklahoma Boston College Harvard College The University of Texas, Austin Brandeis University Ithaca College Trinity College Brown University Lake Forest College University of California, Berkeley Bryn Mawr College Luther College - Decorah University of Chicago Bucknell University Methodist University University of Florida Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Minerva Schools at KGI University of Idaho Case Western Reserve University Mount Holyoke College Clark University New York University Vassar College Colby College Northwestern University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Colgate University Occidental College Wartburg College College of the Atlantic Pomona College Washington and Lee University Colorado College Princeton University Wellesley College Ringling College of Art and Design Wesleyan University Columbia University - Sciences Po - Dual BA Seattle University Wheaton College - Massachusetts Program Skidmore College Whitman College Concordia College - Moorhead St Olaf College Cornell University St. John’s College

THE NETHERLANDS UNIVERSITY COLLEGES Amsterdam Fashion Institute NHTV University of Applied Sciences - Breda Amsterdam University College Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Radboud University Nijmegen Erasmus University College Delft University of Technology Tilburg University Leiden University College - University of Amsterdam University College Groningen Eindhoven University of Technology University of Groningen University College Maastricht Erasmus University Rotterdam University of Twente University College Utrecht Gerrit Rietveld Academy Utrecht University Hotelschool The Hague Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Leiden University Wageningen University Maastricht University Zuyd University of Applied Sciences NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences

EUROPE UNITED KINGDOM CANADA Bard College Berlin, Germany Brunel University Bishop’s University CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Spain Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design Concordia University - Montreal Humboldt University - Berlin, Germany Edinburgh Napier University McGill University IE University - Madrid, Spain Imperial College London Mount Allison University IE University - Segovia, Spain King’s College London Quest University Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium New College of the Humanities University of Alberta Les Roches International School of Hotel School of Oriental and African Studies, University of University of British Columbia Management - Marbella, Spain London University of Ottawa Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano, Italy The London School of Economics and Political Science University of Toronto Sciences Po Paris - Campus de Reims, France The Universidad de Granada, Spain University College London OTHER University College Cork, Ireland University of Abertay Dundee Australian National University, Australia University of Alcalá, Spain University of Birmingham Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de University of Applied Sciences - Upper Monterrey, Mexico Austria, Austria University of Essex Nagoya University (Global 30 International University Targu Mures Medical - Campus University of Exeter Programs), Japan Hamburg, Germany University of Nottingham National Taiwan University, Taiwan University of Stirling NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates University of Sussex United International Business Schools, University of the West of England - Bristol Switzerland University of Tokyo (PEAK), Japan

UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS

41 The Netherlands

United States 79% 40 of America 127 students College / University CLASS OF 2020 18 United Kingdom AFTER GRADUATION 21% 16 Europe 34 students Unknown/ Gap year: community or military service, Other travel, further studies, 7 volunteering or employment opportunities 5 Canada

• UWC Maastricht does not use a weighted grading system. We do not calculate GPA or class ranking. UNIVERSITY • All letters of recommendation are kept confidential. We do not edit teacher recommendations. • Students are limited to 8 applications worldwide, of which 6 UWC Davis partners. COUNSELLING • Students do not receive any type of test preparation. POLICIES

AWARDS / UWC Maastricht does not give awards to students in the academic or co-curricular areas. This decision was deliberately taken in order to promote a strong community as well as a HONOURS spirit of solidarity among students.

Government mandated school closure in mid-March 2020 due to COVID-19 necessitated shifting all classes and community events to a virtual format. In-person teaching and learning resumed in June 2020 for day students and boarding students who had remained on campus or were able to travel back to The Netherlands. A significant number of students had to adapt to a change in time zone COVID-19 or blended teaching. UWC Maastricht reopened as normal in late August 2020, with a number of students starting the school year in quarantine conditions. Achieved and predicted grades are based on students’ formal online and in-person assessments, taking into account potential disruptions.

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