Leading Universities Around the Word Admit YISS Class of 2026

By Lorena Meadows and Su Jin, High School Counselors

Colleges and universities around the world recognize the talent and potential of YISS graduates. We are immensely proud of our seniors and all that they have accomplished during their time at YISS. Below are the schools where the YISS Class of 2026 students have been admitted.

United States

• ArtCenter College of Design

• Boise State University

• Boston College

• Boston University

• Brandeis University

• California Institute of the Arts

• Columbia University in the City of New York

• Cornell University

• Duke University

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University

• Emory University

• Fordham University

• George Washington University

• Grand Canyon University

• Grinnell College

• Johns Hopkins University

• Maryland Institute College of Art

• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

• The New School - Parsons School of Design

• New York University

• Northeastern University

• Northwestern University

• Oregon State University

• Pace University - Lubin School of Business

• Pennsylvania State University

• Pepperdine University

• Pratt Institute

• Purdue University

• Purdue University Fort Wayne

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Rhode Island School of Design

• Rice University

• Rochester Institute of Technology

• San Diego State University

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago

• Stony Brook University

• Syracuse University

• Temple University

• University of California, Berkeley

• University of California, Davis

• University of California, Irvine

• University of California, Los Angeles

• University of California, Merced

• University of California, Riverside

• University of California, San Diego

• University of California, Santa Cruz

• University of Chicago

• University of Colorado Boulder

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• University of Michigan

• University of Minnesota Twin Cities

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• University of Pennsylvania

• University of Rochester

• University of Southern California

• University of Virginia

• University of Washington Bothell

• University of Washington Seattle

• University of Washington Tacoma

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Washington University in St. Louis

• Whitworth University

• Yale University

Australia 

• University of Melbourne

• University of Sydney

Canada

• Queen’s University

• Simon Fraser University

• Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

• Toronto Metropolitan University

• University of British Columbia, Okanagan

• University of Calgary

• University of Toronto

• Western University

• Wilfrid Laurier University

• York University

Hong Kong

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Italy

• Bocconi University

Japan

• Waseda University

Sweden

• Stockholm School of Economics

United Arab Emirates

• Hult International Business School, Dubai

United Kingdom 

• Aston University, Birmingham

• Durham University

• King’s College London

• Queen Mary University of London

• The University of Edinburgh

• University College London

• University of Bath

• University of Edinburgh

• University of Manchester

• University of Oxford

• University of St Andrews

• University of Surrey

• University of Warwick

• University of the Arts London