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

¹ For in­sti­tu­tion­al ac­cred­it­a­tion, the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments must be met:

a.

High­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions and oth­er in­sti­tu­tions with­in the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor have a qual­ity con­trol sys­tem in place to en­sure that:

1.

teach­ing, re­search and ser­vices are of high qual­ity and staff are qual­i­fied in their po­s­i­tions;

2.

ad­mis­sion re­quire­ments un­der Art­icles 23, 24 or 25 and, where ap­plic­able, also the gen­er­al prin­ciples on the struc­ture of stud­ies at uni­versit­ies of ap­plied sci­ences un­der Art­icle 26 are met;

3.

the high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tion is struc­tured and man­aged ef­fi­ciently;

4.

the mem­bers of the high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tion have an ad­equate role in de­cision-mak­ing;

5.

tasks are car­ried out in a man­ner that en­cour­ages equal op­por­tun­it­ies and true gender equal­ity;

6.

tasks fur­ther the aims of eco­nom­ic, so­cial and en­vir­on­ment­al sus­tain­ab­il­ity;

7.

it is pos­sible to veri­fy that the in­sti­tu­tion ful­fils its man­date.

b.

Can­ton­al uni­versit­ies, fed­er­al in­sti­tutes of tech­no­logy and uni­versit­ies of ap­plied sci­ences shall provide teach­ing, re­search and ser­vices in sev­er­al dis­cip­lines or fields of study.

c.

High­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions and oth­er in­sti­tu­tions with­in the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor and their re­spons­ible bod­ies shall take steps to en­sure that the in­sti­tu­tion can be sus­tain­ably man­aged.

² The Swiss High­er Edu­ca­tion Coun­cil shall es­tab­lish the re­quire­ments in an or­din­ance.¹¹ When do­ing so, it shall con­sider the spe­cif­ic char­ac­ter­ist­ics and autonomy of can­ton­al uni­versit­ies, fed­er­al in­sti­tutes of tech­no­logy, uni­versit­ies of ap­plied sci­ences, uni­versit­ies of teach­er edu­ca­tion and oth­er in­sti­tu­tions with­in the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor.