Who can apply and what are the costs?
Students from Slovenia, other EU countries or countries which have signed a bilateral educational agreement with Slovenia (BIH, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo) are entitled to apply. Students from other countries (not mentioned above) can apply if at least one of the parents pays taxes in Slovenia.
The tuition fee is free of charge.
However, students who are not from Maribor have to cover the dormitory accommodation costs by themselves (around €330,00 per month for accommodation, supervision and food).
All students have to cover additional costs (books, freshmen week, final excursion, field trips) of the programme in the amount of approximately €1500,00 in two years. Expenses can be paid in instalments.
Students can choose between two halls of residence, DIJAŠKI DOM DRAVA and DIJAŠKI DOM LIZIKE JANČAR.
Entry requirements
- Age: 16 or 17 years at the time of enrollment.
- Academic Standing: Completion of the second year of a four-year secondary school program in the current school year, with a final grade of either excellent or very good.
- Subject Performance: Achieved excellent or very good final grades in at least two of the following subjects: Mother Tongue, English, or Mathematics in the current school year.
- Extracurricular Involvement: Active participation in cultural or sports activities, or involvement in national or international knowledge competitions in fields such as Mathematics, languages, natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, computer science, or related areas. This can also include active engagement in research projects.
- Printed out and signed online application form.
- Photocopy of thefirst year’s final certificate and official English transcript of it (only if the document is not issued in Slovenia).
- Second year’s report on the candidate’s grades or mid-year report and official English transcript of it (only if the document is not issued in Slovenia).
- Filled in (out), signed and stamped forms of participation in extra-curricular activities. This includes all student activities at school or through external organisations or clubs during the current academic year. We consider a maximum of 5 school lessons per week (45-minute lessons) for one activity and a maximum of 20 school lessons per week (45-minute lessons) for all activities. For every activity, a new form should be filled out.
- Photocopies of certificates of achievements in knowledge competitions, music competitions orresearch work. Achievements which count are participation in an international knowledge Olympiad, gold or silver awards in a national knowledge competition, gold or silver awards in a national music competition, gold and silver awards in a national or regional research paper competition. Only achievement in school year 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 count.
- Photocopy of the passport or ID card (for EU applicants).
II. gimnazija Maribor is hosting open day presentations for the IB Diploma Programme at our school location, Trg Miloša Zidanška 1, 2000 Maribor, on the following dates and times:
- Friday, 14th of February 2025 at 11:00 AM,
- Saturday, 15th of February 2025 at 9:00 AM.
- Friday, 14th of February 2025 at 4:00 PM. The online session will take place via Zoom, the link for the presentation is: https://arnes-si.zoom.us/j/2432907775?omn=91797209636
All the documents must be sent as a registered shipment to
II. gimnazija Maribor, Trg Miloša Zidanška 1, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
with “IB2025” specified on the envelope, the deadline is 14 th March 2025.
The final selection will be made after evaluating the candidates’ placement test results and after conducting individual interviews with the candidates in April 2025.
The following criteria are applied in ranking the candidates:
- school grades (20 %),
- extracurricular activities (10 %),
- competitions (10 %),
- teacher references (10 %),
- results on the placement test (30 %),
- interview (20 %).
The placement tests with solutions from previous years are available below:
The decision to admit students to the IB DP at II. gimnazija Maribor will be based on their rankings according to the criteria above. The best 40 students will be accepted.
The students will be notified of the results in May 2025.