The accreditation agencies must send their application for accreditation at least two months before the corresponding meeting of the Accreditation Council. The exact dates will be communicated in advance by the office of the Accreditation Council....
The Higher Education Act (HEdA) (Article 3 paragraphs 1 and 3) stipulates that the Swiss Agency of Accreditation and Quality Assurance (AAQ) and other Swiss or foreign accreditation agencies recognised by the Swiss Accreditation Council may carry out accreditation. The admission requirements and the procedure...
According to the Fees Ordinance of the Swiss Accreditation Council (Article 3), generally cost-covering fees are charged. In the case of institutional accreditation, the public higher education institutions are only charged the direct costs, the private higher education institutions the direct and indirect costs. The direct...
First of all, it should be emphasised that at the level of Federal Legislation, not all private higher education institutions are obliged to be accredited under the Higher Education Act (HEdA), but only those that wish to use a designation protected by the HEdA (Article...
According to the HEdA Accreditation Ordinance (Article 9 Paragraph 7), the higher education institution chooses one official language (German, French or Italian) as the language of the procedure. It may also submit the documents used for the procedure in English. But even in this case,...
The accreditation is valid for a period of 7 years. Since a procedure duration of up to two years must be expected, higher education institutions are recommended to start the process of the renewal of accreditation 5 years after the last accreditation....
No, the same standards apply to all higher education institutions. The consideration of the specific profile is, however, taken into account within the standards, which is ensured by a group of experts suitably composed for the respective procedure....
No, the Higher Education Act (HEdA) (Article 5 Paragraph 1) requires the unity of research and teaching for higher education institutions....
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....