Welcome to UWC Bangladesh Website

The United World Colleges (now known as UWC) are a group of thirteen international schools and colleges. The UWC movement aims to make eduation a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. Students are selected from around the globe at a pre-university level, based on merit and regardless of their financial status and ethnic, religious or educational background, to attend one of the colleges.

The UWC international organisation is a British based foundation that comprises thirteen colleges in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, the United States, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica,Bosnia and Herzegovina and, as of September 2009, a newly opened college in Maastricht, the Netherlands; National Committees in more than 130 countries; a network of more than 40,000 alumni from more than 181 countries, and an International Office in London. UWC usually accept students who are between 16 to 18 years old, with exception of the colleges in Singapore and Swaziland, which also accept younger students, and the vocational college in Venezuela which accepts students at tertiary level. Each UWC typically comprises between 200 and 300 students from about 90 different countries. Development is on the charts for possible UWCs in New Zealand and the Caribbean.