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The University of Basel is the oldest institution of higher learning in Switzerland.. This list of universities in Switzerland lists all public and private higher education institutions accredited and coordinated according to the Federal Act on Funding and Coordination of the Swiss Higher Education Sector (short: Federal Higher Education Act, HEdA).
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (French: Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, abbreviated IHEID), also known as Geneva Graduate Institute, is a graduate-level research university in Geneva, Switzerland dedicated to international relations and development studies.
The University of Zurich (UZH, German: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, [9] with its 28,000 enrolled students. [10] It was founded in 1833 [11] from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine which go back to 1525, and a new ...
Swissuniversities (stylised as swᴉssunᴉversᴉtᴉes) is the umbrella organization of universities and colleges in Switzerland. [1]Swissuniversities has 38 member institutions, [2] including the two federal institutes of technology, ten cantonal universities, ten (state-run and private) [3] universities of applied sciences, [4] and sixteen universities of teacher education.
ETH Zurich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; English: Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics .
List of business schools in Switzerland.Public schools on the list are all accredited higher education institution (AAQ), part of Universities in Switzerland.Private business schools are not accredited higher education institutions but they are able to legitimately carry out their activities in Switzerland by virtue of the principle of economic freedom.
Switzerland Space Agency, the Swiss Space Office, has been involved in various space technologies and programs. In addition it was one of the 10 founders of the European Space Agency in 1975 and is the seventh largest contributor to the ESA budget.
Many international students attend Swiss universities for advanced degrees. In 2013 masters programs enrolled about 27% foreign students (fourth highest rate) and doctoral programs were 52% foreign (second behind Luxembourg). [3] Switzerland also has a high rate of PhD students and inhabitants with doctoral degrees.