Affiliations & Accreditations
Our network of schools has partnerships with leading universities and organisations. Across the Dulwich College International schools, our students have attended master classes with Berklee College of Music, Northwestern, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and Trinity College Dublin. Our Colleges are working with Goldsmiths, University of London on our Dual Language provision. We have hosted academic presentations from the University of Cambridge, University of Bristol, and University of Sheffield and the University of St. Andrews amongst others. Our Colleges have hosted debate workshops with Georgetown University and leadership seminars with Stanford OHS. Our teachers have participated in professional learning programmes with Duke NUS. Johns Hopkins University Centre for Talented Youth has tested some of our student-run workshops with our teachers. Our Colleges have also been visited by the Oxford Mathemagicians, and acapella groups from Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
Each year, our school is visited by admissions representatives of many of the world’s top universities and colleges. Since our opening in 2012, we have been visited by almost 200 universities and colleges, including Stanford University, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University in St. Louis, UCLA, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, London School of Economics, Hong Kong University, and Sciences Po.
Our formal partnership with Marquette to deliver the dual-enrollment Marquette Explorer programme was signed in 2022. Our own DHSZ teachers are Marquette adjunct instructors, able to deliver a suite of university-level courses tailored to our own students. This means that our students can study university courses at high school and, after completing the courses and passing the assessments, are able to earn credits recognised by the university. (Click to know more)
In 2024, we create a unique partnership with the University of Pittsburgh which will allow us to deliver US college credit programmes through their College in High School program. These courses are fully accredited by NACEP and a transferrable to the vast majority of colleges and universities in the US. This is the first international high school partnership for Pittsburgh and their courses will run alongside with our existing dual enrollment courses offered through Marquette University. DHSZ students in Year 12 will now have the opportunity to enroll at two US universities and work towards getting official college transcripts a full two years ahead of schedule.(Click to know more)
Our school is a registered examination centre for both Cambridge International Examination (CIE) and Edexcel examination boards. We are accredited by Accreditation International (AI) and Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA CESS).
MSA CESS stands for the “Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools.” They are one of six regional accreditation organisations in the United States. For over 125 years, they have been leaders in educational quality assurance through accreditation. For over 125 years, they have been leaders in educational quality assurance through accreditation. They currently accredit more than 2700 schools and school systems in 34 of the US States and nearly 100 countries internationally. The official website of MSA CESS is: http://msa-cess.org.
AI is a member of NCPSA, the National Council for Private School Accreditation. It is an alliance recognized and authorized by preschool, primary and secondary schools in the United States.
After the school is accredited, the student's transcripts are more competitive when applying to American universities. Because the accredited schools have a more complete and rigorous teaching system, their transcripts are more powerful proof of the students' learning ability and overall quality.
The Deputy Master (External) from Dulwich College in London inspects our College each year to ensure we uphold the Dulwich reputation for excellence. ISI accredited inspectors from our founding school evaluate all areas of our school, including our delivery of the curriculum.
EARCOS is an organization of over 165 prestigious international schools in East Asia. These schools have a total of more than 130,000 students and 16,000 teachers and administrators. EARCOS has been in existence for fifty years and supports schools in areas such as the broadening of educational programmes and professional growth and welfare.
