No, the HEdA Accreditation Ordinance does not permit the accreditation of subunits. A higher education institution seeking institutional accreditation must be assigned to one of the types defined in the HEdA Accreditation Ordinance (Article 4 paragraph 1 letter b) (university, university of applied sciences or...
According to the HEdA Accreditation Ordinance (Article 4 paragraph 1 letters f and i), the higher education institution must be a legal entity in Switzerland and have infrastructure in Switzerland....
In Switzerland, the accreditation of study programmes is not mandatory. Within the framework of institutional accreditation, higher education institutions prove that their quality assurance system covers all areas, and thus also the study programmes. However, they are thereby not formally accredited as programmes....
Private higher education institutions that do not wish to make use of the right to use reserved designations under Article 29 of the Higher Education Act (HEdA) do not have to be accredited. However, according to Article 2 HEdA, all public higher education institutions –...
At federal level, the designations university», «university of applied sciences» or «university of teacher education» are protected by the Higher Education Act (HEdA) (Article 29), which entered into force on 1 January 2015, and may only be used by accredited higher education institutions. On the...
In Switzerland, a higher education institution must be accredited in accordance with the Higher Education Act (HEdA) (Article 29) if it wishes to use a protected name such as «university», «university of applied sciences» or «university of teacher education» in a national language or in...
In principle, yes, but the laws of the siting cantons must be observed, as the awarding of titles is the responsibility of the cantons. The right of a higher education institution to award titles is also not tied to accreditation....
The agency that is to carry out the procedure is the competent body for the admission to the procedure. According to Article 5 paragraph 1 of the HEdA Accreditation Ordinance, an already completed institutional accreditation of the higher education institution is a prerequisite for the...
The Swiss Accreditation Council is the competent authority for admission to the procedure. You will find the form for the application for institutional accreditation on the website of the Accreditation Council as well as a template for a documentation of the evidence of how your...