Focus

Preparing global leaders with character

Boarding fees 2024/25

$11,200

Pupils

750

Ages

8–18

Spear’s Review

The boys of Mayo College, a boarding school in northern India, are taught a design thinking model – think, make, break, repeat – so they are prepared to respond in an agile fashion to the inevitable changes of the future.

Students at Mayo have access to a 187-acre campus and enjoy more than 40 different sports and activities alongside a curriculum designed to prepare boys for life after boarding school. 

To develop an international outlook, students are encouraged to take overseas trips on exchange programmes to Europe, South Africa, the US and Australia. They learn about languages, sport and other cultures, and their visiting counterparts bring their different perspectives to the school itself. Nearly 30 per cent of students go overseas for higher education.

Academics

The college offers IGCSE and SAT exams, with a small number of students taking the SAT each year. 

Feeder schools

Students come from schools all over India.

University and college destinations

With the school now affiliated with the Cambridge Board, students will be eligible to apply to Oxford and Cambridge from 2026. There have been historic admissions to Ivy League schools.

Head teacher

Saurav Sinha replaced Lt Gen Surendra Kulkarni as Mayo College principal in 2024. Sinha, who has worked in banking, healthcare and digital marketing – as well as education – previously held the position of director of pastoral affairs and boarding at Harrow International School Bengaluru.

Admissions

Students take an online aptitude test designed by the school faculty, covering English, Hindi and maths. Thereafter, there will be an online interview with a panel of teachers. Applicants who advance through these two rounds are called for a personal interview, along with their parents, with the school management committee.

Accessibility

Jaipur International Airport: 2 hours 40 minutes

Location

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