Poor kids who choose the IB do better than rich kids who don’t: study

School students who opt for the International Baccalaureate over a traditional leaving certificate are almost 100 per cent certain to be offered a place at university and, once there, achieve higher marks and are far less likely to drop out, new research has found.

A study of students who undertook the IB diploma program in senior high school between 2013 and 2018 found almost all “who applied for university gained an offer to study”.