Armenia, Yerevan
· Reviewed by Nik Higgins · Co-founder & CEO
Quantum College is a co-educational day school in Armenia that educates approximately 1,000 students across three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Instruction is in Armenian using the college's proprietary curricula, while the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is taught in English. The college also holds exclusive rights from the Cambridge Assessment Centre to conduct Oxford and Cambridge entrance examinations in Armenia. Founded in 1991 as the country's first non-state experimental school, Quantum College has grown from 49 students and 17 teachers to a campus with about 60 classes and more than 100 teachers, including PhDs and university professors. The school emphasizes information technology and educational innovation, maintaining virtual physics and digital mathematics laboratories and publishing more than 50 textbooks and electronic materials. With international collaborations and a founding role in the Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics, graduates move on to leading universities worldwide, including Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Stanford, and UCL.