What this is, and what it is not

This site exists because the information an IB student needs is scattered across dozens of national agencies, university admissions offices and PDF handbooks, much of it in languages they do not read, and a surprising amount of it out of date even on official pages. The aim here is narrow: gather it in one place, say clearly where each fact came from, and date everything.

Students taking the IB Diploma who are deciding where to apply — primarily at Ikast-Brande Gymnasium, but it is public because the same questions come up everywhere. It assumes you are seventeen or eighteen, that you are an EU citizen, and that nobody has explained any of this to you before.

Every page is generated from JSON data files in a public repository. Each country, institution and programme is one record, carrying the date it was last checked and links to the sources behind it. The site is static — no database, no tracking, no accounts — and rebuilds automatically whenever the data changes.

That structure is deliberate. It means a teacher can correct a figure without touching any HTML, and it means you can see exactly what this site claims and where each claim came from.

• Admission rules change every year. Several rules on this site are already scheduled to change before autumn 2027 — the Danish SU reform, the UK's Graduate Route, the Dutch internationalisation law, Iceland's new non-EEA tuition. Where that is true, the page says so.
• Official sources contradict each other. Not occasionally — routinely. Where two official pages disagree, this site says which one it is following and why, rather than quietly picking one.
• Gaps are marked as gaps. Where a figure could not be verified, the field is empty and a note says so. Nothing here is a plausible guess dressed up as a fact.

Photographs are either an institution's own Open Graph image, linked from its own server — the picture it publishes of itself for exactly this purpose — or a freely licensed photograph from Wikimedia Commons, hosted here and credited in full on the credits page.

Animation on this site has to explain something. There are three kinds, each with a stated purpose and a stated behaviour when motion is turned down — and nothing animates for any other reason, which is a rule we hold ourselves to by keeping the list short enough to print.

The reduced-motion column is not the same animation played faster. Each is a different, designed behaviour, because an effect that is uncomfortable at full speed is usually still uncomfortable at double. We follow your operating system's setting automatically, and the Reduce motion control in the footer overrides it either way if your machine's setting is not what you want here.