University Destinations from Bangalore Schools

The brief

The US engineering map dominates. Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Cornell, Georgia Tech, UPenn, UCLA recur across the published destination lists from TISB, Stonehill, Indus, Oakridge and Greenwood.
UK destinations cluster at the Russell Group end. Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, LSE, King's. The IB-plus-IGCSE schools place most reliably here; Cambridge A-Level schools place into the same universities by different routes.
Canada is the third leg of the overseas tripod. Toronto, UBC, McGill and Waterloo appear in destination lists across every premium IB school in the city. Waterloo for engineering and computer science is the recurring name.
IISc Bangalore is the local STEM destination that almost no international school publishes against. The IISc undergraduate cohort runs on JEE Advanced and KVPY scores; the schools that feed it are CBSE and ICSE, not IB.
Five schools publish, the rest stay quiet. Indus, Stonehill, TISB, Greenwood and Oakridge release destination data with names attached. Most others have placements but do not publish the list. Treat that silence accordingly.

A tech-corridor city with two destination maps

Bangalore is unusual among Indian cities in how visibly two destination maps run in parallel.

The overseas map is what families on the Whitefield, Sarjapur, Koramangala and Indiranagar tech corridors talk about. One or both parents often did a master's at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgia Tech or Stanford. The names are familiar, the network is real, and the children are being steered toward the same places, increasingly for undergraduate rather than graduate study.

The Indian map runs alongside it. IISc Bangalore sits in the centre of the city as a working destination for the academically strongest. Around it sit the IITs, BITS Pilani, the NITs and the IIM undergraduate route. The international schools largely do not feed this map. The CBSE and ICSE schools do, at a fraction of the fee level. A family choosing a Bangalore school is also, often without naming it, choosing one of the two maps.

Where Bangalore graduates go

Across the schools that publish destination data, the regional split tracks a recognisable pattern.

The United States takes the largest share at the premium IB schools, typically 40 to 60 percent of overseas-bound leavers depending on cohort year. Engineering and computer science carry most of the volume. Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Berkeley, UPenn, Cornell, Columbia, Georgia Tech, UCLA and Brown appear across TISB, Stonehill, Indus, Oakridge and Greenwood. The selective-tier names recur often enough that they are not one-off acceptances; the institutional relationships have been built over multiple cohorts.

The United Kingdom is the second-largest destination and tilts heavily Russell Group. Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, LSE and King's College London surface repeatedly. Edinburgh, Warwick, Bristol, Manchester and Durham fill in the broader share.

Canada has grown into a third destination block in its own right. Toronto, UBC, McGill, Waterloo and Western are the recurring names. Waterloo's reputation for engineering and co-op placement makes it a specific magnet for Bangalore tech-corridor families.

Australia sits below the top three but is meaningful. Melbourne, Sydney, UNSW, Monash, ANU, Queensland and Adelaide all turn up. The IB Diploma is well understood by Go8 admissions teams.

Singapore, Hong Kong and Europe take a thinner share. NUS, NTU and HKU appear. Sciences Po, ETH Zurich and a handful of Dutch and German technical universities recur. Trinity College Dublin and a small cluster of Irish universities have grown as a Brexit-era pathway.

India, for the international-school cohort, is mostly Ashoka, Symbiosis, Manipal, Plaksha, FLAME, Jindal, Krea and similar private universities. The IIT and IISc pathway runs through a different set of schools.

Which schools place strongly where

The published destination lists from the five Bangalore schools that release them give the clearest read.

TISB has the longest US and UK selective track record in the city. Stanford, LSE, Oxford and the broader Russell Group recur across multiple cohorts. The 2025 IB Diploma cohort included multiple 45, 44 and 43 scorers; the average score sits around 38, well above the global mean of 30. Cambridge IGCSE through Class 10 produces transcripts that UK admissions read fluently, and the school has been at this longer than anyone else.

Stonehill International School publishes destinations across the UK, US and European university map. Recent IB Diploma averages run between 32 and 33.5 points, above the global mean. The expat-family roll shows up in the destination spread: a less concentrated list than TISB's, with more Canada, Australia and continental Europe in the tail.

Indus International publishes scholarship aggregates alongside placement names. The 2023 to 2024 cohort attracted one individual scholarship of USD 393,000 and a combined pool of USD 7.8 million across the class. Unusual reporting from an Indian international school, and a signal of how seriously Indus treats US financial-aid applications. Destinations cluster heavily US, with a UK, Canadian and Australian tail.

Oakridge, on the Nord Anglia platform, publishes destinations including Cornell, Johns Hopkins, King's College London and a wider US selective list. IB Diploma averages have run around 34 to 36. The list reads broader than deeper: more universities, fewer top-five repeats than TISB, but a credible map across the US, UK and Australia.

Greenwood High posted a 2025 IB Diploma cohort with a 99 percent pass rate, one perfect 45 and 27 percent above 40 points. Published destinations include UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Imperial and UCLA. A top-tier overseas result at fees roughly half the premium IB schools.

Canadian International School, Mallya Aditi and Neev Academy have placements but publish less of the detail. CIS Bangalore has a long history into Canadian and UK universities. Mallya Aditi states 100 percent university progression with an alumni network of 4,000-plus that skews toward strong Indian and selective overseas universities. Neev's identity is built around literature and inquiry, and its destination data sits behind admissions rather than online.

For the IISc, IIT, BITS and NIT route, the named schools are different. National Public School Indiranagar, NPS Koramangala, NPS HSR, NAFL Basaveshwaranagar and Mallya Aditi turn out the JEE Advanced, KVPY, BITSAT and NEET numbers that move cohorts into the national engineering, science and medical programmes. These schools rarely publish destination lists in the international-school format. The IIT and IISc roll is the destination signal, and it is checkable in the public exam results.

At a glance

School	Strongest published destinations	Curriculum	Fees (INR)
TISB	Stanford, LSE, Oxford, Russell Group, US selective	Cambridge + IB	5.5 to 11 lakh
Stonehill	UK, US, Europe, Canada, Australia	IB continuum	5.8 to 12.7 lakh
Indus International	US selective with strong scholarships, UK	IB continuum	5 to 12 lakh
Oakridge	Cornell, Johns Hopkins, King's, US, UK, Australia	IB continuum	3.6 to 11.8 lakh
Greenwood High	UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Imperial, UCLA	IB, Cambridge, ICSE	3 to 9.25 lakh
Canadian International	Canada, UK, US tail	IB + Cambridge	5.1 to 10.3 lakh
Mallya Aditi	Strong Indian universities plus selective overseas	Cambridge + ICSE	6 to 8.5 lakh
NPS (Indiranagar, Koramangala, HSR)	IIT, BITS, NIT, IISc, AIIMS	CBSE	1.5 to 3 lakh
NAFL Basaveshwaranagar	IIT, NEET, ISC toppers, selective overseas	ICSE + Cambridge	Mid-tier

Destination data from the schools' own published 2022 to 2025 cohort reports where available. Indian-board outcomes inferred from JEE, NEET and ISC results rather than overseas-style destination lists.

How to read these destinations

A destination list shows the universities that have admitted at least one graduate. It does not show how many applied, how many were rejected, or what proportion of the cohort ended up in the headline-tier names versus a long tail.

Repetition over single hits. A school sending students to Stanford four years in a row reads differently from a school with one Stanford acceptance in a decade. The first signals an institutional relationship with admissions; the second is one exceptional family with the resources to make it work on their own. TISB, Stonehill, Indus and Oakridge have multi-year repetition into specific universities. Greenwood's recent IB cohorts are starting to show the same pattern.

Cohort scale next to the list. A school sending 25 students to top-100 universities out of a graduating class of 60 produces different outcomes from a school with the same names but a class of 200 where most graduates landed in the long tail. The proportion to top-50 universities, not the headline name, is the signal.

The match between published destinations and family direction. A child set on IIT Bombay or IISc is in the wrong building at TISB or Stonehill, however good both schools are. A child set on Stanford or Imperial is in the wrong building at NPS Indiranagar, however strong NPS is on the national-exam route. The destination list shows what the school is built for.

FAQs

Which Bangalore school sends the most students to US universities? TISB, Stonehill, Indus and Oakridge all have long, repeated US selective records. Greenwood's IB stream has produced UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, Brown and UCLA placements in recent years. Indus publishes the strongest aggregate US scholarship numbers in the city: USD 7.8 million across the 2023 to 2024 cohort.

Which Bangalore school is strongest for UK universities? TISB and Stonehill have the longest Russell Group records, with Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Imperial and UCL recurring. Greenwood and Oakridge both place students into Imperial and King's College London.

Do Bangalore international schools send students to IIT or IISc? Rarely as the main pathway. IIT and IISc undergraduate admissions run through JEE Advanced and similar national exams written for CBSE and ICSE syllabi. The schools that feed those pipelines in numbers are NPS Indiranagar, NPS Koramangala, NPS HSR and NAFL Basaveshwaranagar, typically with three years of coaching at FIITJEE, Allen, Aakash, BASE or Deeksha alongside school.

How early do destination decisions start to lock in? IGCSE and IB subject choices in Year 9 or 10 already channel where a student can apply. UK medicine needs Biology and Chemistry locked in by IGCSE; US engineering wants Physics, Chemistry and Maths through Year 10.

Sources

TISB, IB Diploma 2025 results and destination references
Stonehill International, IB Diploma 2023 and 2024 average scores and destination data
Indus International, 2023 to 2024 scholarship aggregate and destinations
Oakridge International, IB Diploma 2022 cohort averages and destination names
Greenwood High, 2025 IB Diploma pass rate, perfect-45 score and destination list
Canadian International School Bangalore, IB Diploma and accreditation history
Mallya Aditi International School, NESA membership and progression statement
National Public School and NAFL ISC, ICSE and CBSE results 2024 and 2025
Bangalore parent forums and Reddit relocation threads, 2023 to 2025