Educational Institutions

A list of the 26 cantonal ministries of education in Switzerland and their equivalent in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Switzerland does not have a centralized Ministry of education. The responsability for the education system lies with the cantons.

The cantonal ICT Competence Centres in Switzerland take an active role in the integration of ICT in Swiss schools.

This site gives you an overview on federal offices and institutions which are either totally or partially involved in education.

The institutions mentioned below are either active in educational research itself or in coodinating national and international education research.

Are you looking for a public or private school in Switzerland? Here you can find schools by cantons, school levels and type of school. You can also enroll your own school into this database.

Swiss schools abroad work by Swiss curricula in one of the Swiss national languages as basic language. Swiss students are thus able to continue their schooling abroad without interruption - and foreign students get the benefits of the Swiss education system.