Singapore

Singapore is consistently ranked among the world's top destinations for international education, attracting tens of thousands of expatriate families each year who seek world-class schooling in a safe, multilingual city-state. The island hosts more than 60 international and foreign-system schools offering curricula from across the globe — the International Baccalaureate (IB), British IGCSE and A-Level, American Advanced Placement, Cambridge International, Australian, Indian (CBSE and ICSE), French, German, Dutch, Swiss, Japanese, Korean and Indonesian national programmes. For expat families relocating to Singapore for work, choosing the right school is often the single most important family decision. Schools range from compact, family-feel campuses in leafy residential suburbs to large, resort-style facilities with Olympic swimming pools, theatres and STEM centres. Annual tuition varies widely — from around SGD 10,000 at lower-fee Indian-curriculum and Cambridge schools to over SGD 55,000 in the senior years at the most established institutions. Schools are spread across the island. Central Singapore — Bukit Timah, Tanglin, Novena and Thomson — has the densest cluster; the West around Dover, Clementi, Bukit Batok and Jurong hosts several of the largest campuses; the East Coast and Changi suit families near the airport; the North-East around Serangoon and Lorong Chuan has French, Australian, British and Indian schools; and the North (Woodlands, Yishun, Sembawang) is home to some of the biggest campuses of all. Every school listed here can claim its listing to keep details, fees and photos up to date.