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Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences

Kalaidos Fachhochschule Schweiz · University of applied sciences (Kalaidos FH) · canton of Zurich · Zurich

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Students, 2025/26

2,120

Educated abroad

8.8%

120 of 1,368 diploma, bachelor's and master's students

Largest field

Business, Management and Services

75.1% of students

“Educated abroad” (Bildungsausländer) means the student gained their university entrance qualification outside Switzerland. It is not nationality: a foreign national who went to school in Switzerland counts as educated in Switzerland. For universities of applied sciences the Office publishes it for diploma, bachelor's and master's students only, so continuing-education students are left out of that share. Students are everyone matriculated at a Swiss higher education institution in the autumn (winter) semester, as the Federal Statistical Office defines them.

Students, 2006/07–2025/26

2006/07: 1,0052025/26: 2,120
2025/262,120
2024/252,352
2023/242,417
2022/232,578
2021/222,726
2020/212,826
2019/202,509
2018/192,514
2017/182,200
2016/172,105
2015/161,917
2014/151,798
2013/141,750
2012/131,728
2011/121,695
2010/111,664
2009/101,502
2008/091,487
2007/081,291
2006/071,005

Fields of study, 2025/26

The Federal Statistical Office's own English field names.

  • Business, Management and Services1,592 · 75.1%
  • Applied Psychology205 · 9.7%
  • Health155 · 7.3%
  • Music, Theatre and Other Arts132 · 6.2%
  • Engineering and IT36 · 1.7%

Level of study, 2025/26

  • Bachelor's1,148 · 54.2%
  • Continuing education752 · 35.5%
  • Master's220 · 10.4%

Fees

Each institution sets its own tuition — for ETH Zurich and EPFL the ETH Board does, by ordinance — and many charge students from abroad more. Fees are not published as open data, and swissuniversities' fee tables may not be reused, so no fees are shown here: check each institution's website.

Other universities of applied sciences: University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Bern University of Applied Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons, Zurich University of the Arts, HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich, SBS Swiss Business School, Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen, César Ritz Colleges Switzerland

Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO/BFS), Students and Degrees in Higher Education (SHIS-studex) — tables “Studierende an den universitären Hochschulen nach Jahr, Fachbereich, Studienstufe, Bildungsherkunft und Hochschule” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040100_108); “Studierende an den Fachhochschulen und pädagogischen Hochschulen nach Jahr, Fachbereich, Studienstufe, Geschlecht und Hochschule” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040400_136); “Studierende an den Fachhochschulen und pädagogischen Hochschulen nach Jahr, Fachbereich, Bildungsherkunft und Hochschule, nur Studierende auf Stufen Diplom, Bachelor und Master (ohne Weiterbildung)” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040400_138); “Studierende an den Fachhochschulen (ohne PH) nach Jahr, Fachbereich, Studienstufe, Geschlecht und Hochschule” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040200_170); “Studierende an den pädagogischen Hochschulen (ohne FH) nach Jahr, Fachrichtung, Geschlecht und Hochschule” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040300_191); “Studierende an den pädagogischen Hochschulen (ohne FH) nach Jahr, Fachrichtung, Staatsangehörigkeit (Kategorie) und Hochschule” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040300_192). Terms of use: opendata.swiss “Open use. Must provide the source” (https://opendata.swiss/en/terms-of-use). Sums and shares, English names, the English names of university and teacher-education fields, cantons, cities and websites are CollegeMatcher's additions, not the FSO's.