IB students

As one of the 665,000 IB students worldwide, this page will give you some shortcuts to information that is relevant to you while you are studying one of the three IB programmes. For further support, please contact the IB coordinator at your school.

Students in garden in sun

If you are considering becoming an IB student, get a head start by reading our short overviews on the programme that is relevant to you—Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme or Diploma Programme. If you have any questions, please contact the IB coordinator at an IB World School near you, or refer to our regional pages.

Africa/Europe/Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Latin America
North America and the Caribbean
- students in this region.

Diploma Programme students

The two-year IB Diploma Programme curriculum presents you with many opportunities to demonstrate and to build on your positive qualities. It offers challenges—academic, artistic and sporting—as well as community responsibility, through the creativity, action, service (CAS) requirement.

During these two years, you will make friendships to last a lifetime, and will receive an education that will form a solid foundation for all your future achievements.

IB community theme website

The IB community theme website has been created to enable students, teachers, parents, school communities, IB staff and everyone associated with the IB, to share and collaborate on the IB community theme: sharing our humanity. Find out more at the community theme website.