The Rankings — 2026/27
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World's Top Schools, Ranked.
Every ranked and candidate school in the directory, one continuous list from #1 down. Use this view when you want the full picture without switching between tiers.
This ranking is locked. The next ranking update will be on September 1, 2027. How the ranking cycle works · Why this ranking exists
Penny's picks
Taiwan · Taipei
Taipei American School
A former Cold War defense-department school in Tianmu, now offering both AP rigor and the full IB Diploma to Taiwan's global families.
74.4
Score
Taiwan · Taipei
Taipei European School
British, French and German national curricula run in parallel here, converging on Yangmingshan into one shared IB Diploma.
72.1
Score
Taiwan · Taipei
Taipei Kuei Shan School
Born in 1963 as a small-class experiment in the Yangmingshan foothills, now a full IB continuum school blending Taiwanese rigor with global perspective
67.7
Score
Taiwan · Taichung
Morrison Academy
Born in a 1952 bamboo hut for missionary kids, this Taichung campus now pairs AP rigor with home-style boarding halls.
65.3
Score
Taiwan · Taipei
Dominican International School
A former US military school turned Catholic-run American curriculum campus, offering 18 AP courses in Taipei's Zhongshan district.
61.2
Score
Taiwan · Hsinchu
Hsinchu International School
An American-curriculum day school in Xiangshan District, built to prep Taiwan's Silicon Valley kids for AP-track college admissions.
60.5
Score
Taiwan · Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung American School
Born from a 1989 grassroots push by expatriate families, this Kaohsiung campus runs dual AP and IB tracks on a LEED-certified site by Lotus Pond.
46.9
Score
Methodology
How we rank
Our composite weights eight categories. Each is scored 0–100 by our editorial panel and audited against 30 sub-criteria drawn from school records, university placement audits, alumni surveys, campus visits and parent interviews. Schools cannot pay for placement or preview scores.
Weighting
- Academic Outcomes20%
- University Placement17%
- Prestige & Heritage13%
- Alumni Network13%
- Facilities13%
- Transparency & Communications8%
- Peer & Industry Review10%
- Admissions Selectivity & Demand8%
Score key
Reading the scores
Bands out of 100
Every category, sub-criterion and composite total across this issue uses the same six-band editorial palette. Bands are calibrated against the full 300-school cohort — a "Distinguished" mark is meaningfully harder to earn than a "Strong" one.
- Exceptional90–100
Top of cohort
- Distinguished80–89
Elite tier
- Strong70–79
Consistently high
- Solid60–69
Reliable performer
- Average50–59
Room to grow
- Below par< 50
Underperforming
The same colour bands are used inside each school profile, on category chips, radar charts and the annual score-history line — so a colour glimpsed on the Rankings page always means the same thing everywhere else.