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

¹ High­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions and oth­er in­sti­tu­tions with­in the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor must seek in­sti­tu­tion­al ac­cred­it­a­tion no later than eight years fol­low­ing com­mence­ment of this Act.

^1bis The ap­plic­a­tion for en­ti­tle­ment to con­tri­bu­tions must be sub­mit­ted with­in a month after in­sti­tu­tion­al ac­cred­it­a­tion is gran­ted.¹⁶

² The en­ti­tle­ment to con­tri­bu­tions by vir­tue of the Fed­er­al Act of 8 Oc­to­ber 1999¹⁷ on Uni­versity Fund­ing and Co­oper­a­tion in the Field of Uni­versity Edu­ca­tion (Uni­versity Fund­ing Act, UFundA) and the Fed­er­al Act of 6 Oc­to­ber 1995¹⁸ on the Uni­versit­ies of Ap­plied Sci­ences (Uni­versit­ies of Ap­plied Sci­ences Act, UASA) re­mains in ef­fect un­til the Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­cides on the en­ti­tle­ment to con­tri­bu­tions un­der the present Fed­er­al Act.¹⁹ Uni­versit­ies of teach­er edu­ca­tion, fed­er­al in­sti­tutes of tech­no­logy and oth­er fed­er­al high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions shall re­tain their en­ti­tle­ment to pro­ject con­tri­bu­tions un­til the in­sti­tu­tion­al ac­cred­it­a­tion de­cision is made by the Swiss Ac­cred­it­a­tion Coun­cil, no later than eight years fol­low­ing com­mence­ment of this Act.

³ High­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions and oth­er in­sti­tu­tions with­in the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor that were ac­cred­ited after 1 Janu­ary 2011 un­der pre­vi­ous le­gis­la­tion re­main in­sti­tu­tion­ally ac­cred­ited for a peri­od of up to eight years fol­low­ing com­mence­ment of this Act.