Since 1921, the Ontario Secondary School Canadian High School Diploma (OSSD) has been consistently ranked top 5 educations on the world recognized by universities across the globe including the UK, Europe USA, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong & Singapore.
CNBC ranks Canda as the #1 country for education in the world while World Population, World Bank, OECD, PISA and International Journal of Educational Reasearch rank the OSSD at #4 globally while outperforming the IB program in math, science and reading.
Sources: OSSD as a Leading International Curriculum:
- The World Bank’s report “World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise” states that Canada’s education system is one of the best in the world, with high levels of student achievement and equity in access to education. (Source: World Bank, 2018)
- In the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings, Canada ranked fourth in the world in reading, math, and science, with Ontario performing above the national average. (Source: OECD, 2018)
- In a study comparing the performance of Canadian students in the OSSD curriculum and students in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, researchers found that students in the OSSD program had higher scores in math, science, and reading. (Source: International Journal of Educational Research, 2019)
