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The International Centre of Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education (THE-ICE), AACSB: Hotel & business school, not a Swiss university Cesarritzcolleges.edu Center for Urban & Real Estate Management Zürich: Needs check AACSB, EQUIS, RICS needs check Part of University Zurich but not recognized as University by Anabin, curem.uzh.ch
The Graduate Institute is a hybrid, public and private institution. It is constituted as a Swiss private law foundation, namely the Fondation pour les hautes études internationales et du développement, which fulfills a public purpose. The political responsibility for the Institute shared between the Swiss Confederation and the canton of Geneva.
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).
IDHEAP was created (under the form of a “Foundation for a graduate school in public administration”) by Enrico Bignami, former delegate of the Board of Directors of Nestlé and creator of IMEDE (now the International Institute for Management Development), [5] who wished to establish a Swiss MBA for the public sector.
The Chancellery is divided into three distinct sectors. The Chancellor is the formal head of the Federal Chancellor Sector, comprising the planning & strategy section, the Internal Services section, the political rights section, the federal crisis management training unit of the Federal Administration, and the Records and Process Management section.
École spéciale de Lausanne, 1857 Louis Rivier, founding member of École spéciale de Lausanne. The roots of modern-day EPFL can be traced back to the foundation of a private school under the name École spéciale de Lausanne in 1853 at the initiative of Louis Rivier, a graduate of the École Centrale Paris and John Gay, the then professor and rector of the Académie de Lausanne.
Switzerland features a system of government not seen in any other nation: direct representation, sometimes called half-direct democracy (this may be arguable, because theoretically, the sovereign of Switzerland is actually its entire electorate). [13] Referendums on the most important laws have been used since the 1848 constitution.
The Swiss Federal Chancellery is the staff organisation of the Federal Council and the federal administration. As of 2024, it is headed by Federal Chancellor Viktor Rossi. It is composed of several sectors, the Federal Chancellery sector headed directly by the incumbent Chancellor, while the other two sectors are led by the Vice-Chancellors.