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 –...
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...