Admissions

Thank you for your interest in the United Nations International School (UNIS), a K-12, coeducational, college preparatory, day school.

UNIS offers a unique combination of academic and cultural education that is found in no other school in the world.  The School encourages high achievement, enjoyment of learning, and a celebration of the differences and similarities of its students who represent more than 100 countries.

There are four things in which UNIS takes immense pride:

  1. its superb international and experienced faculty which represents about 80 countries,
  2. its students who, because of their diversity and experience, enrich classroom discussion by sharing their perspectives, 
  3. its International Baccalaureate curriculum which is global in scope and encourages the development of special talents, and 
  4. its modern, spacious buildings which are situated in safe neighborhoods – one overlooking the East River in Manhattan and the other in Jamaica Estates, Queens.