The IB Diploma Programme (IBDP), provides a framework for academic rigor and innovation that encourages students to challenge themselves, and to apply their broad range and depth of knowledge in the real world. The IBDP is highly regarded by leading colleges and universities worldwide for its challenging curriculum and for predicting student success in higher education. IBDP graduates qualify for college credit at most US colleges and universities.
Dwight teachers inspire IBDP students to tap into their critical-thinking skills and personal passions to focus on one area for in-depth study in Dwight's tradition of personalized learning.
The IB Diploma Programme is designed to:
- Engage students in a broad range of subjects, including several at a higher level and of their own choosing, ranging from experimental sciences and mathematics, to the arts, economics and finance, film, technology and languages.
- Introduce students to philosophy through the compulsory IB Theory of Knowledge course, where they explore the nature of knowledge and are challenged to reflect critically on diverse aspects.
- Encourage students to explore the arts and creative thinking, physical activity, and community service through CAS (Creativity, Action, and Service) requirements on a journey of self-discovery.
- Engage students in independent research through in-depth study and writing an extended essay.
- Emphasize the development of the whole student intellectually, emotionally, physically, and ethically.
- In every grade, we embrace the IB mission and the IB Learner Profile, which encourages students to be: knowledgeable, inquirers, principled, thinkers, open-minded, communicators, balanced, risk-takers, caring, and reflective.
- Download the IB Diploma Brochure to learn more about the subject groups we offer.
For a more detailed look at our curriculum for DP, please click here
To register for a meeting with the IBDP Coordinator, Peter Atkins, please fill out the form below so that a member of our Admissions Team can contact you to arrange a suitable time