This list of universities in Switzerland lists all public and private higher education institutions accredited and coordinated according the Federal Act on Funding and Coordination of the Swiss Higher Education Sector (short: Federal Higher Education Act, HEdA).[1]
This includes all 12 publicly funded Swiss universities (10 cantonal universities and 2 federal institutes of technology) and a number of public and private Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences and other education institutions as higher education institutions. The Swiss University Conference and its accreditation body the CRUS-OAQ is responsible for their recognition; an accreditation also defines the right to call itself accordingly.[2][1][3]
There are ten public and one private Universities of Applied Sciences (or German: Fachhochschule (FH), French: Haute école specialisée (HES), and Italian: scuola universitaria professionale (SUP)) in Switzerland.
According to diploma recognition by the EDK / CDIP:
In relation to its population size, Switzerland is the country with the highest number of universities among the 100 best of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (2014–2015).[5]
A list of Switzerland top universities as per three major ranking platforms ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities), THE (Times Higher Education) and the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds).[citation needed]
University | Location | ARWU (2020) |
THE (2020) |
QS (2021) |
---|---|---|---|---|
ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Zürich | 20 | 14 | 6 |
EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) | Lausanne | 83 | 43 | 14 |
University of Zurich | Zürich | 56 | 73 | 69 |
University of Basel | Basel | 88 | 92 | 149 |
University of Geneva | Geneva | 59 | 149 | 106 |
University of Lausanne | Lausanne | 101–150 | 191 | 169 |
University of Bern | Bern | 101–150 | 109 | 114 |
University of Fribourg | Fribourg | 401–500 | 351–400 | 601–650 |
Università della Svizzera Italiana | Lugano | 701–800 | 251–300 | 273 |
University of St. Gallen (HSG) | St.Gallen | - | 401–500 | 428 |
University of Neuchâtel | Neuchâtel | 901–1000 | 401–500 | - |