United World College of South East Asia

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United World College of South East Asia
Location
Dover: 1207 Dover Road Singapore 139654 East: 1 Tampines Street 73 Singapore 528704 Singapore
Information
Type	International school Day & boarding school
Established	1971; 53 years ago (1971)
College President	Nick Alchin
Teaching staff	578
Grades	K-12
Enrolment	5,561[1]
Student to teacher ratio	10.7:1
Education system	UWCSEA designed curriculum, IGCSE, IB Diploma
Campus type	Urban
Colour(s)	Light blue, Teal, Blue, and White
Mascot	Phoenix (Dover campus) Dragon (East campus)
Accreditation	CIS Edexcel CAIE WASC CPE[2]
Affiliation	United World Colleges Round Square EARCOS
Website	https://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/

The United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) is an independent international school in Singapore, and is a member of the United World College (UWC) movement which includes 18 schools worldwide. UWCSEA provides a K–12 education consisting of five interlinking elements: academics, activities, outdoor education, personal and social education, and service. The UWCSEA learning program leads to the IGCSE in Grades 9 and 10 and the IB Diploma in Grades 11 and 12.

The school has two campuses, with around 3,000 students at the Dover Campus and 2,500 at the East Campus in Tampines.^[3] Most students participate in the service program, which involves service to the school community, the Singaporean community, as well as overseas communities.

UWCSEA is different from many of its sister colleges in the UWC movement, most of which are wholly boarding institutions that offer only a two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme for mainly scholarship students of around 16–19 years of age. UWCSEA admits students from the age of 4, and the majority of students are children with parents who are expatriates or immigrants in Singapore.

There are more than 300 boarders from 76 countries across both campuses, and there are over 100 students from 47 countries in grades 8-12 who are supported by scholarships. Singapore government policy prevents most citizens from attending international schools within the country, and therefore UWCSEA has the smallest percentage of local students of any UWC. There are 30 nationalities represented in the teaching staff, and there are 114 student nationalities.