Federal Act
on Funding and Coordination of the Swiss
(Higher Education Act, HEdA)

¹ Un­til de­cided by the High­er Edu­ca­tion Coun­cil, ad­mis­sion to uni­versit­ies of ap­plied sci­ences is sub­ject to the con­di­tions set forth in para­graphs 2–4.

² Ex­am­in­a­tion-free ad­mis­sion to Bach­el­or’s de­gree pro­grammes in the fields of en­gin­eer­ing and in­form­a­tion tech­no­logy, ar­chi­tec­ture, con­struc­tion and plan­ning, chem­istry and life sci­ences, ag­ri­cul­ture and forestry, busi­ness and ser­vices and design at uni­versit­ies of ap­plied sci­ences shall re­quire:

a.

a Fed­er­al Vo­ca­tion­al Bac­ca­laur­eate is­sued on com­ple­tion of a VET pro­gramme for an oc­cu­pa­tion re­lat­ing to the de­sired field of study;

b.

a Fed­er­al Bac­ca­laur­eate or fed­er­ally re­cog­nised bac­ca­laur­eate and at least one year of work ex­per­i­ence that has en­abled the pro­spect­ive stu­dent to gain prac­tic­al know-how and know­ledge in an oc­cu­pa­tion re­lat­ing to the de­sired field of study.

³ The fol­low­ing rel­ev­ant de­crees ad­op­ted on 31 Au­gust 2004¹⁵ ap­ply for ad­mis­sion to Bach­el­or’s de­gree pro­grammes in the fields of health, so­cial work, mu­sic, theatre and oth­er arts, ap­plied psy­cho­logy and ap­plied lin­guist­ics at uni­versit­ies of ap­plied sci­ences:

a.

Res­ol­u­tions ad­op­ted by the Plen­ary As­sembly of the Swiss Con­fer­ence of Can­ton­al Min­is­ters of Health in re­la­tion to study pro­grammes in health care at uni­versit­ies of ap­plied sci­ences;

b.

Res­ol­u­tions ad­op­ted by the Plen­ary As­sembly of the Swiss Con­fer­ence of Can­ton­al Min­is­ters of Edu­ca­tion in re­la­tion to study pro­grammes in so­cial work at uni­versit­ies of ap­plied sci­ences;

c.

Res­ol­u­tions ad­op­ted by the Plen­ary As­sembly of the Swiss Con­fer­ence of Can­ton­al Min­is­ters of Edu­ca­tion in re­la­tion to high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions spe­cial­ised in mu­sic, theatre, art and design as well as in re­la­tion to study pro­grammes in ap­plied psy­cho­logy and ap­plied lin­guist­ics at uni­versit­ies of ap­plied sci­ences.

⁴ The cor­res­pond­ing De­part­ment shall de­cide:

a.

what ad­di­tion­al ad­mis­sion re­quire­ments may be in­cluded;

b.

what ad­mis­sion re­quire­ments shall ap­ply to gradu­ates of oth­er edu­ca­tion and train­ing pro­grammes;

c.

the learn­ing ob­ject­ives for one-year train­ee­ships in in­di­vidu­al fields of study.