Academics
Under the new school structure, Mahidol Wittayanusorn graduates have had a university entry rate of 100 percent. Mathayom 6 students averaged 376.91 points in the first O-NET examinations in the 2005 academic year, the country's highest. Additionally, a significant amount of graduates (9.2% in the 2004 academic year) have been awarded scholarships to continue their education abroad. Students here are very well prepared for university life, provided that many students have scored the highest in Advanced Placement Programmes amongst other freshmen in Mahidol University.
Mahidol Wittayanusorn students have also gained international prominence in the International Science Olympiads. Many students are selected as national representatives after a long period of excellent academic performance evaluated by the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology, a national governmental organisation. In 2009, seven of the twenty-three national contestants were from the school.
In 2005, the school hosted the First Thailand International Science Fair in which youth from all over the world came to present their science projects. Currently, the school has made many contacts with other schools in foreign countries, and it has succeeded in establishing partnership between some other science schools. This collaboration will hopefully help it become more internationally recognised as a world-class educational institution.
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