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educational experiences at HUS. Re- ADMISSION & FEES MYP exams in 2022 averaged 37
medial education, psychological coun- (against a maximum possible 56). In
seling and medical care are accorded Hiranandani Upscale School, Chen- 2023, the 13 students who wrote the
high importance to ensure the mental nai is an IB-affiliated K-12 co-ed day school-leaving IBDP exam averaged
and emotional well-being of students. school. Applications for kindergar- 31 (against the maximum possible
We are also very aware that a school ten-grade XI admissions are invited 45 points) with two students award-
is as good as its teachers. Therefore, round-the-year. An interview fol- ed more than 40. As a result, HUS
teacher training workshops are man- lowed by a written test is mandatory school-leavers are routinely admitted
datory and supplemented with glob- for applicants applying for admis- by the world’s top-ranked universities
ally renowned IB training to ensure sion from class VI onwards. including Cambridge (UK), Yale and
our teachers are abreast with the very Tuition fee (annual): Rs.2.74-5.34 Bristol.
best technology-infused pedagogies,” lakh. With the 13-year-old school having
says Srinivasan, a recipient of the For further information, e-mail: got off to a good start, the top manage-
American Classroom Teaching Excel- admissions@huschennai.in ment has drawn up a master plan to
lence Award 2008 and the Best Prin- continuously upgrade infrastructure
cipal Award of the Indian Principals and administrative systems and pro-
Network, 2022. of implementing the United Nations cesses. “This year we have developed
Globally benchmarked academic Sustainable Development Goals and a methodology to monitor and mentor
and sports education is supplement- embracing environment-friendly best students by using data analytics to en-
ed by a rich menu of co-curricular practices in their daily lives. hance learning outcomes. In addition,
activities with children encouraged HUS’ commitment to balanced we are in the process of constructing
to choose from fine arts, design, mu- education has paid off by way of ex- facilities to host inter-school sports
sic, dance and theatre. Moreover, cellent board exam results. The first and extracurricular competitions on
children are taught the importance batch of 24 students who wrote IB’s a much larger scale,” says Srinivasan.

University of Adelaide, Australia

This vintage university's alumni include five
Nobel Laureates, over 100 Rhodes Scholars,
Australia’s first woman prime minister and first
woman Supreme Court judge

OUNDED IN 1874, THE UNIVERSITY OF Ad-
elaide (UoA) is the sixth continent’s third oldest
university. Currently celebrating its 150th anni-
Fversary, the publicly-funded UoA is ranked among
the world’s top one percent by highly-reputed international
ranking agencies — #89 in the QS World Rankings 2024,
#74 in US News & World Report’s Best Global Universi-
ties Rankings 2023, and #111 in the THE World University
Rankings 2024. Moreover, the varsity’s research outcomes University of Adelaide North Terrace campus
are rated “above or well above world standard” by the Aus-
tralian Research Council’s Excellence in Research Austra- (after China) of foreign students is from India.
lia Program. In 2023, Adelaide U reported an impressive This vintage Oz varsity has schooled a string of illus-
$231.8 million (Rs.1,937 crore) research income. trious alumni including five Nobel Laureates, over 100
Sprawled across three campuses in Adelaide (and one in Rhodes Scholars, Australia’s first woman prime minister
Melbourne), the university offers 148 undergraduate and Julia Gillard, Supreme Court judge Roma Mitchell, poet
87 postgraduate programmes to 22,700 students includ- and classicist, Adenan Satem, and astronaut Andy Thomas,
ing 6,800 international students from 100 countries world- among others.
wide. It’s pertinent to note that UoA’s second largest cohort Adelaide. The cosmopolitan capital of South Australia, Ad-

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