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Highlights 2020

Highlights 2020


DAIS IB graduates from the Class of 2020 received a
total of 443 admission offers from 145 universities and colleges in 13 countries:
Canada Czech Republic France Germany Grenada Hong Kong India
Ireland Netherlands Singapore United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America
DAIS students are encouraged to match and firm their college application decisions based on their own well-considered personal criteria and the historical data they have access to of past alumni placements. However, when it comes to highlights according to specific global rankings (US News World Report, QS Top University Rankings and Reuters), they include:

118 acceptances to universities listed in the
QS "World's Top 35 Universities":
  • 1 student
    each at
    National Unversity of Singapore and Imperial College
  • 2 students
    each at
    Stanford University
    Yale University
    and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
  • 4 students
    at
    Cambridge University
    University of Pennsylvania
    Columbia University
    and Northwestern University
  • 3 students
    at
    Cornell University
    University of Chicago
    and Johns Hopkins University
  • 5 students
    at
    University of California at Berkeley
  • 6 students
    at
    Duke University
  • 11 students
    at
    University College London
  • 26 students
    at
    University of Toronto

17 acceptances to
USA’s Ivy League universities:
  • 1 student
    at
    Brown University
  • 4 students
    at
    Columbia University
  • 2 students
    at
    Yale University
  • 4 students
    at
    University of Pennsylvania
  • 1 student
    at
    Dartmouth College
  • 3 students
    at
    Cornell University
141 acceptances to universities ranked in the US News & World Report Top 30 of Reuters Most Innovative Universities Globally:
  • 1student
    each at
    California Institute of Technology
    Imperial College
    University of Hong Kong and University of Manchester
  • 2students
    each at
    Stanford University
    Yale University
    and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
  • 3 students
    each at
    Cornell University
    University of Chicago
    and Johns Hopkins University
  • 4 students
    each at
    Cambridge University
    University of Pennsylvania
    Columbia University
    and Northwestern University
  • 5 students
    each at
    University of California at Berkeley
    and University of Washington
  • 6 students
    at
    Duke University
  • 7 students
    at
    New York University
  • 8 students
    at
    the University of Edinburgh
  • 10 students
    at
    King’s College
  • 11 students
    each at
    University College London
    and University of Caliofornia San Diego
  • 13 students
    each at
    University of California in Los Angeles
    and University of British Columbia
  • 27 students
    at
    University of Toronto

67 offers to universities listed in the
UK’s Russell Group:
  • 1 student
    each at
    Imperial College
    University of Manchester
    University of Bristol
    University of Sheffield
    University of Exeter
    University of Sussex
    University of Nottingham
    Cardiff University
    and Newcastle University.
  • 2 students
    each at
    University of Birmingham
    University of Exeter
    and University of Leeds
  • 3 students
    each at
    Queen Mary College
    and St. Andrews
  • 4 students
    at
    University of Cambridge
  • 6 students
    at
    London School of Economics & Political Science
  • 8 students
    at
    University of Edinburgh
  • 10 students
    at
    King’s College
  • 11 students
    at
    University College London
  • 12 students
    at
    University of Warwick

11 acceptances to universities listed in the
QS “Top 15 for Art, Design or Architecture”:
  • 1 student
    at
    Rhode Island School of Design
  • 2 students
    each at
    Parsons School of Design
    and at Pratt Institute
  • 3 students
    at
    University of the Arts London
    and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

7 acceptances from various parts of Europe and 2 in the UAE:
  • 1 student
    each at
    Sciences Po in France
    Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
    Jacobs University in Germany
    Leiden University in Netherlands
    and Charles University in Czech Republic
  • 2 students
    each at
    Columbia-Science Po Dual programme
  • 2 students
    at
    New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE