9 Best IB Tuition Centres in Singapore (October 2026)

Fees are as each centre publishes them on its own site, checked on 28 October 2026. "On request" means the site doesn't list a price.

Most students don't need help in six subjects. They need it in one or two, and the best place for HL Chemistry isn't always the best place for English Lang & Lit. This is where I'd start for each subject, going by what each centre lists and who it says teaches it.

For Chinese as a language rather than an exam subject, my Chinese tuition guide has far more choice, and Computer Science often starts years earlier in coding classes for kids. If your child is on the IGCSE track in Years 9 to 11, my guide to the best IGCSE schools in Singapore covers the schools behind it.

Five centres and one agency publish IB prices. Where the lesson length is given, I've worked out the hourly rate so you can compare them.

So budget roughly S$400 to S$660 a month per subject for a weekly group class, and S$125 to S$220 an hour one-to-one with a specialist. Check what goes on top. The Economics Tutor adds an S$80 registration fee and S$120 a semester for materials, while Photon Academy says it charges no registration fee.

If you're looking for an IB tutor in Singapore for the first time, these are the checks I'd make before paying a deposit.

• IB-only classes on the current syllabus. Ask whether IB students share a class with A-Level or O-Level students. The Economics Tutor says plainly that its IB classes don't mix with A-Level students. Ask which edition of the subject guide the notes follow, too. The IB teaches new Math AA and AI courses from 2027, first examined in 2029, so a student starting the Diploma in 2027 needs a tutor teaching the new course.
• Coursework help that stays inside the rules. The IB's academic integrity page says it expects "genuine and authentic pieces of work, that represent their own abilities", and its policy names private tutors among the people a student must not take non-permitted help from when completing or editing work. A tutor can teach the subject, explain the criteria and ask hard questions about a draft. They can't write it, rewrite it or hand over a template.
• A tutor who knows the internal assessment. The IB's assessment page lists the work teachers assess inside most courses: laboratory work in the sciences, investigations in maths, oral work in languages. Ask the tutor to walk you through the IA criteria for your child's subject. If they can't, they're teaching to the exam alone.
• The teacher's IB background, in plain words. "IBO certified" and "IB examiner" mean different things. Ask which subject the examiner marks, whether they still do, and whether that person will teach your child.
• A registered centre. Search for the centre by name on MOE's list of registered private schools, and ask to see its registration certificate at the front desk.
• A published price and a trial. Six of the nine here publish fees. For the rest, get the fee, class size and lesson length in writing before the trial.

One more check that costs nothing: talk to your child's IB coordinator. Every IB school has its own academic integrity policy alongside the IB's and sets its own coursework deadlines, and a coordinator would rather hear about a tutor in Year 1 than in the month the IA is due.

I started from the 40-odd names on the two longest lists ranking for IB tuition in Singapore and kept those with a live site, a base or team in Singapore, and IB teaching I could see on their own pages: IB subject lists, separate HL and SL classes, IA and EE support. Then I read each one's IB, fee and contact pages on 28 October 2026. Every fee, address and credential here is as the centre states it.

I left out a centre with no IB subject list that offers money back if a student misses an A, two online providers with no Singapore address, a chemistry specialist whose own website I couldn't find, and an online tutor platform that publishes no IB rates. Seven of the nine sites here headline a results figure, mostly the share of students scoring 6s and 7s. I couldn't find the number of students behind any of them, so none of those figures decided a place on this list, and I haven't repeated them. I'll update the list as fees change.

IB tuition in Singapore costs about S$400 to S$660 a month per subject for a weekly group class, and S$125 to S$220 an hour for one-to-one lessons with a specialist, based on the fees six providers publish. Home tutors found through an agency charge S$40 to S$120 an hour, depending on experience.

Registration and material fees come on top at some centres, and holiday courses and IA programmes are usually priced separately. Mindlab International, Prep Zone Academy and IB Super quote on request.

I'd start IB tuition at one of two points in the two-year Diploma Programme: the first term of Year 1, if HL maths or a science is already slipping, or six months before the May or November exams, for revision. Coursework help should fit around the IA and Extended Essay deadlines your child's school sets.

Starting the Diploma in 2027? The IB teaches new maths courses from that year, so check the tutor is teaching the new syllabus. Students coming from IGCSE can start earlier with a pre-IB course, and Photon Academy and Quintessential Education both run one.

Yes, within limits. A tutor can teach the subject, explain the IB's assessment criteria and ask questions that push your child's thinking. But the IB's academic integrity policy names private tutors among the sources of non-permitted help in completing or editing work, so writing, editing or templating an IA or Extended Essay crosses the line.

The Extended Essay is an independent piece of research that ends in a 4,000-word paper, and every Diploma student has to write one. The policy treats work commissioned or edited by a third party as misconduct, and counts repeated rounds of editing beyond what the subject guide allows as undue help. If a coursework package includes writing or editing for your child, leave that part out.

Group IB tuition, at about S$400 to S$660 a month for four lessons, suits a student who follows the subject but needs practice and exam technique. One-to-one, at S$125 to S$220 an hour with a specialist, suits a big gap, a subject few centres teach, or a student who won't ask questions in a group.

Small groups sit in between. Quintessential Education keeps its IB groups to three to six students, and The Economics Tutor runs mini groups of three to six alongside larger ones. Prep Zone Academy teaches IB one-to-one only.

Yes, once they teach 10 or more students. In a 2021 reply in Parliament, MOE said that under the Education Act, centres offering tuition or enrichment to 10 or more students must register with it, and their tutors must be registered too. Those rules don't cover freelance home tutors or the agencies that match them.

You can search MOE's list of registered private schools by name, and MOE says you can ask to see a school's registration certificate and its letters of permission for courses and teachers. Registration isn't a quality mark, though. MOE says it doesn't endorse or accredit the schools it registers.