Cost of studying in Switzerland: tuition fees at 22 universities

A year's tuition in Switzerland runs from CHF 500 to CHF 39,500, and typically CHF 1,700 to CHF 6,300, across the 22 universities that publish a rate.

Universities with a published fee
22
Typical year
CHF 1,700 – CHF 6,300
Lowest published
CHF 500
Highest published
CHF 39,500

Every figure on this page is the rate the university or the country's own fee law publishes for an international student. Where a university publishes nothing, it is left out rather than estimated, so 22 is the number of universities in Switzerland that state a rate, not the number that exist.

What each university charges an international student

The rate each university publishes for a year, in CHF. Open a university to see which programmes the rate covers and where the figure came from.

UniversityCityTHE rankTuition a year
ETH ZurichZurich11CHF 4,380
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFLLausanne35CHF 4,380
University of BernBern108CHF 5,100
University of BaselBasel120CHF 1,700
Universite de LausanneLausanne125CHF 1,160
University of GenevaGeneva166CHF 1,000
USI - Università della Svizzera italianaLugano251-300CHF 4,000 – CHF 10,000
Academia EngiadinaSamedan—CHF 500 – CHF 1,200
Business and Hotel Management SchoolLucerne—CHF 6,600 – CHF 15,000
Business School LausanneChavannes—CHF 1,900 – CHF 14,000
ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de LausanneLausanne—CHF 20,300
EHL Hospitality Business SchoolLausanne—CHF 1,000 – CHF 11,700
Franklin University SwitzerlandLugano—CHF 600 – CHF 3,200
Graduate Institute of International and Development StudiesGeneva—CHF 1,000 – CHF 8,000
NMS BerneBern—CHF 500 – CHF 1,350
PH NMS BernBern—CHF 750 – CHF 1,000
Robert Kennedy CollegeZurich—CHF 6,300
Swiss UMEFGeneva—CHF 39,500
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern SwitzerlandManno—CHF 1,000 – CHF 10,000
Victoria School of ManagementNeuchâtel—CHF 3,088 – CHF 27,000
Zurich University of the ArtsZurich—CHF 1,020 – CHF 7,200

Living costs

Switzerland puts a student's living costs at CHF 1,850 to CHF 1,850 a month. study in switzerland+ (swissuniversities' portal): student budget of CHF 1,850 per month / 22,200 per year excluding tuition — accommodation 700, food 600, clothes and personal items 150, other 150, supplies 100, health insurance 90, transport 60; costs vary by region. Tuition varies between institutions: CHF 500–4,000 per semester.

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