Saturday, November 15 2014

 On November 15, at 1 pm, the Paramaz Avetisyan building of the American University of Armenia will host Open Doors of the UWC Dilijan College. The event will provide an opportunity to receive data about the UWC, education system, criteria of admission and procedure of admission to other colleges of UWC.    

UWC Dilijan is the joint project of philanthropists Ruben Vardanyan and Veronika Zonabend and their partners. At a press conference on Friday, Veronika Zonabend said that this year 22 school-leavers from Armenia have entered the UWC. 10 of them are studying at UWC Dilijan College, with the other 12 - at other UWC Colleges in different countries. 
Zonabend said that all the specified students from Armenia have received grants that cover 90-100% of the tuition fee. The total amount of grants provided by the donors from Armenia and other countries for education of Armenian teenagers is 1.5 million USD. In a number of cases, travel costs have also been reimbursed.      

According to Daria Brodnikovskaya, representative of the National Committee of UWC Armenia, applications for admission to UWC Colleges for 2015 are accepted until 11 December 2014. Pupils aged 15-17, who have good progress in studies, can submit their applications. 

In 2015, a total of 23 school-leavers from Armenia will get an opportunity to enter UWC Colleges. 10 of them will study at UWC Dilijan College, the rest -at other UWC Colleges in the USA, Italy, Canada, China and other countries.   

UWC has 14 schools and colleges across 5 continents, all with distinctive characteristics but sharing the same mission, ethos and values. More than 50,000 students from more than 181 countries have studied at UWC schools, colleges and programmes. The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma is one of the most well regarded and widely known secondary school qualifications in the world and is recognized by the world's leading universities. Students from different countries are selected by the National Committees of their countries. The UWC Dilijan admission criteria are available on http://www.am.uwc.org/.

The tuition fee at UWC Dilijan is 35 thsd USD per annum. In the meantime, due to the scholarship system most of the students pay only 10% of the specified amount.  
At present the College has 96 students from 48 countries, including countries of North America, Eastern Europe, Russia and Australia.  

UWC Dilijan became the first college in the post-Soviet area to join the UWC network. By 2023 the total number of students will be 650.