About us
The second classroom of international education.
Hanlin International Education is an education group built around four programme lines — young-learner courses, international competitions, curriculum tutoring and individual research. It holds subject-training accreditation alongside AP-school and US-high-school qualifications, and its students come from more than 1,000 international schools in China and abroad.
Who we are
Four programme lines, one academic pathway.
For students of every age band and academic interest, Hanlin plans a clear, correct academic route — then delivers all of it, through one-to-one and small-group formats, online and in person.
Young learners
Synchronised international courses and early competition training for primary and middle-school students.
Competitions
Coaching for 190+ international contests across sciences, computing, business, humanities and STEM innovation.
Curricula
Subject tutoring across A-Level, IB, AP, IGCSE and US high-school programmes.
Research
Individualised research projects and science-fair mentoring for competitive applications.
Accreditations
- Subject-training accreditation
- AP international-school qualification
- US high-school qualification
In-house curriculum
Materials written by our own researchers.
Hanlin's teaching-research team writes its own coursebooks and lecture notes — among China's first self-authored international-competition textbooks.
First movers
Among the first teams in China to write original textbooks for international competitions.
Updated every year
Each series is revised annually to follow current syllabuses and papers.
Used beyond Hanlin
Adopted by international schools and fellow institutions since 2017.
Honours & authorisations
Recognised by the organisers themselves.
Hanlin partners with the organisers of major international academic competitions and provides registration services for students — the certificates below are a sample of those authorisations and awards.
Faculty
The teaching team behind the results.
Eleven of the tutors presented on Hanlin's Chinese about page — the full roster lives on the tutors page.
Ding
Master's in physics from Brown University; bachelor's from the elite physics programme at Central China Normal University.
He
Master's graduate of Cambridge; bachelor's in computer science and mathematics from the University of Nebraska.
Huang
Aerospace-engineering master's at George Washington University under Prof. James D. Lee, a lead of NASA's Sigma programme; bachelor's from Southeast University's maths-physics programme.
Jiang
College Board-certified AP teacher; master's in business analytics from Schulich School of Business, York University, with degrees in finance and business economics from York and HIT.
Liu (Biology)
Biological sciences at the University of Maryland; master's in medical illustration at Johns Hopkins — home to America's top-ranked medical school.
Liu (Maths)
Master's from UBC and bachelor's from Edinburgh; certified an “Outstanding AMC Coach” by the AMC China committee.
Li (Biology)
Integrated bachelor's and master's in applied medical sciences at UCL; attended a UK independent school on a full scholarship.
Li (Chemistry)
Post-doctoral researcher at Fudan; PhD in organic chemistry from HKUST; master's in medicinal chemistry and nano-engineering at ECUST, jointly trained with Myongji University.
Qiu
PhD in organic chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; College Board-certified teacher.
Wang
Accounting at the University of Utah and a master's in finance and accounting from King's College London; officially certified as an outstanding NEC and IEO coach.
Case files
Student outcomes across five directions.
Hanlin publishes admission case files in sciences, computing, economics and business, humanities and research. A sample from the mathematics file — full case walls are being produced for the honours pages.
Cambridge & UCL
A-Level A* with AAA at AS and IELTS 8.0, backed by top-25% finishes in the Canadian Senior and Waterloo maths contests, UKChO Gold and BPhO Bronze.
USC, Edinburgh & WashU
Seven AP examinations at grade 5, with AMC, a Euclid third prize, an ARML second prize and physics research published in a first-tier journal.
UCLA
TOEFL 109 with A-Level A*AAA and six A* at IGCSE, plus an AMC second prize, Maths Kangaroo Silver and the NEC national round.
Honour rolls
Competition results, season after season.
Highlights from the mathematics honour roll — every discipline's full roll is published on the awards pages by season.
253 AIME qualifiers
In 2023–24, 253 Hanlin students qualified for AIME at a 65% rate — 270 reached the global top 5% and 45 the top 1%, with 20 hitting the USA(J)MO index.
Euclid high score of 99
In 2024, 177 students reached the global top 25% of the Euclid contest; the 2023 cohort carried a 70% award rate with 11 students in the world's top 1%.
Camps & UK rounds
Multiple admissions each year to Ross, SUMaC, Mathcamp and AwesomeMath, alongside eight SMC Gold awards in 2024.
Admissions
Where students were admitted, 2020–24.
From Hanlin's published admissions lists — 120 offers across the five G5 universities alone, alongside US and other destinations detailed on the honours pages.
UK · the G5
| University | Offers |
|---|---|
| Cambridge | 35 |
| Imperial College | 30 |
| UCL | 27 |
| Oxford | 26 |
| LSE | 2 |
United States, selected
| University | Offers |
|---|---|
| Cornell · Carnegie Mellon | 25 each |
| WashU · UC Berkeley | 18 each |
| UPenn | 16 |
| MIT · Johns Hopkins | 14 each |
| Stanford · UChicago · NYU | 10 each |
Other destinations
| University | Offers |
|---|---|
| Toronto | 16 |
| University of Hong Kong | 5 |
| Melbourne | 4 |
| McGill · HKUST | 1 each |
| Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Caltech and more on the honours pages | |
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About Hanlin, briefly answered.
The questions families ask most when they first meet us.
What is Hanlin International Education?
An education group founded in Shanghai in 2017, running four programme lines — young-learner courses, international-competition coaching, curriculum tutoring and individual research. More than 30,000 students from over 1,000 international schools have studied with Hanlin.
What accreditations does Hanlin hold?
Subject-training accreditation together with AP international-school and US high-school qualifications, plus organiser-issued authorisations such as MAA AMC test-site status and official test-centre certificates for NEC, FBLA, BPA and SIC.
How is teaching delivered?
One-to-one and small-group classes, online and in person, at learning centres in Shanghai (Changning and Pudong), Shenzhen, Chengdu and Hangzhou.
Who writes the teaching materials?
Hanlin's own research team — among the first in China to author original international-competition textbooks, revised every year and adopted by international schools since 2017.
Where can I see student results?
The honours pages publish competition rolls and admissions lists by season; the about page above carries the highlights, including 120 G5 offers between 2020 and 2024.
How do I get in touch?
Call 400-888-0080 or the Shanghai lines +86 21 6352 6630 (competitions) and +86 21 6352 6628 (curricula), follow the WeChat account “Hanlin Courses”, or visit any of the five learning centres.
Contact us
Five learning centres, one team.
Reach an advisor by phone or WeChat, or visit a learning centre in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu or Hangzhou. WeChat official account: Hanlin Courses (翰林课程).