One of the most notable features of Aitchison is the high success rate of boys gaining entry to universities of their first choice, both here and overseas. Aitchison has specialist University Guidance Counsellors. The department is led by Dr. Naila Burney Chughtai and Mr. Jamal Hussain.

Aitchison has its own SAT Examination Centre accredited by the American College Board, and offers preparation in SAT, IELTS and TOEFL. We can also arrange ACT. Generally, more than half of the graduating cohort will secure international placements, mainly in the UK, U.S.A and Canada. Among these are regular offers to attend Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT and Yale. Beyond these stellar institutions the list is impressively long. Medical offers are mostly taken up at Aga Khan University and King Edward Medical College, but Australia has offered placements. LUMS, University of Punjab, Forman Christian College, Government College and National College of the Arts are regularly attended. Boys also enter the Civil Service and the Armed Forces with regularity.

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY PLACEMENTS

US UNIVERSITIES

1 Harvard University 44 Middlebury College
2 Stanford University 45 NYU
3 Yale University 46 NYU Abu Dhabi
4 Amherst College 47 New York Institute of Technology
5 Austin College 48 Northeastern University
6 Bates College 49 Northwestern University (Qatar)
7 Boston College 50 Oberlin College
8 Boston University 51 Ohio Wesleyan University
9 Bowdoin College 52 Penn State University
10 Brown University 53 Pomona College
11 Carleton College 54 Princeton University
12 Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar) 55 Purdue University
13 Clark University 56 Reed College
14 Colby College 57 Rhoda Island School of Design
15 Colgate University 58 Simon Fraser International College
16 College of William and Mary 59 Swarthmore College
17 Columbia University 60 Syracuse University
18 Connecticut College 61 Trinity College
19 Cornell 62 UC Berkeley
20 Cornell University 63 UC Davis
21 Dartmouth College 64 UC Los Angeles
22 Depauw University 65 UC San Diego
23 Drake University 66 University of Chicago
24 Drew University 67 University of Delaware
25 Drexel University 68 University of Denver
26 Duke University 69 University of Illinois at Chicago
27 Emory University 70 University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
28 Eugene Lang College/Parsons – The New School 71 University of Miami
29 Florida Institute of Technology 72 University of Michigan
30 Florida Southern College 73 University of Notre Dame
31 Florida State University 74 University of Pennsylvania
32 Franklin & Marshall 75 University of San Francisco
33 George Washington University 76 University of Southern California
34 Georgetown University 77 University of Texas – A&M (Qatar)
35 Georgia Tech University 78 University of Texas – Austin
36 Grinnell College 79 University of Virginia
37 Illinois University – Urbana Champaign 80 University of Wisconsin Madison
38 Illinois Wesleyan University 81 Vassar College
39 John Hopkins 82 Virginia Commonwealth University
40 Knox College 83 Washington University, St. Louis
41 MIT 84 Wentworth Institute of Technology
42 Macalester college 85 Williams College
43 Manhattan College 86 Wittenberg University

UK UNIVERSITIES

1 University of Cambridge 15 University of Edinburgh
2 University of Oxford 16 University of Exeter
3 Durham University 17 University of Leeds
4 Imperial College 18 University of Manchester
5 University of York 19 University of Newcastle
6 King’s College, London 20 University of Nottingham
7 London School Of Economics 21 University of Nottingham
8 Queen Mary University of London 22 Cardiff University
9 SOAS University of London 23 University of Sheffield
10 Surrey University 24 University of St Andrews
11 UCL 25 University of Sussex
12 University of Bath 26 University of Warwick
13 University of Bristol 27 Kingston University
14 Brunel University

AUSTRALIA

1 Monash University 2 University of Melbourne

CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES

1 Brock University 6 University of Calgary
2 McGill University 7 University of Toronto
3 McMaster University 8 University of Waterloo
4 Queen’s University 9 University of Western Ontario
5 University of British Columbia 10 York University

SINGAPORE

1 National University of Singapore

TURKEY

1 Bilkent University, Turkey

NETHERLANDS

1 Tilburg University, Netherlands 2 Utrecht University

GERMANY

1 Jacobs University Bremen

PAKISTAN UNIVERSITIES

1 AGA Khan 3 IT University
2 GIKI 4 LUMS