Studying in Switzerland

The purpose of this post is to provide resources to facilitate your orientation in the Swiss tertiary education world.

In Switzerland, there are 3 types of tertiary education:

•         Traditional Universities (12 universities including EPFL and ETH)
•         Universities of Applied Science and arts
•         Professional training and Education schools.

Additionally, several MBA programs are offered in Switzerland:

Some interesting links:

- Explaining the Swiss tertiary education system, including continuous education:

The swissuniversity.ch page

- An interesting search engine to find the Swiss education offer in the subjects and language of your choice:

See the Swiss universitycontinuing education page.

- Master studies taught entirely in English:

Visit the crus.ch page

- Swiss Learning presents Swiss third degree education offers sorted by establishments

- Rate and ranking of the main Swiss education establishments (in French and German only)

- Swiss university global ranking:

http://www.shanghairanking.com

- Vocation education system in Switzerland explained in English, and information about the vocational education offers for a specific profession (not available in English)

To get a complete picture about the entire Swiss education System, we can recommend the book of Margaret Oertig “Going local, your guide to Swiss schooling”

Should you know some additional interesting sources of information, please share them in the comment section.

Sandrine van den Oudenhoven

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