Founded in 1968, the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) is a non-profit educational organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. The IBO is an international organization, not associated with any particular country and free of any national, political or educational agendas. The International Baccalaureate (IB) offers high quality programs of international education to a worldwide community of schools. The three programs for students aged 3 to 19 help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world. There are more than 5,96,000 IB students at 2,218 schools in 125 countries.
The four programmes are:
- PYP: The Primary Years Programme (Kindergarten to Class 5).
- MYP: The Middle Years Programme (Class 6 to Class 10).
- DP: The Diploma Programme (Class 11 to Class 12).
- CP: Career Related Programme (Class 11 to Class 12).
