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Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Hochschule Luzern · University of applied sciences (HSLU) · canton of Lucerne · Lucerne

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Students, 2025/26

9,231

Educated abroad

15.4%

1,335 of 8,696 diploma, bachelor's and master's students

Largest field

Business, Management and Services

27.1% of students

Of its 9,231 students, 13 are in teacher education or therapy — music teacher education for baccalaureate schools, 13 — which the Federal Statistical Office also lists with the universities of teacher education. The Federal Statistical Office counts three types of institution separately. Teacher-education schools that belong to a university of applied sciences — such as the FHNW's School of Education — are counted here with that university, as the Office's combined table counts them; the independent universities of teacher education are listed on their own.

“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: 4,1032025/26: 9,231
2025/269,231
2024/258,751
2023/248,672
2022/238,872
2021/228,959
2020/218,353
2019/207,742
2018/197,213
2017/186,929
2016/176,956
2015/166,927
2014/156,739
2013/146,669
2012/136,314
2011/126,016
2010/115,823
2009/105,357
2008/094,532
2007/084,163
2006/074,103

Fields of study, 2025/26

The Federal Statistical Office's own English field names.

  • Business, Management and Services2,499 · 27.1%
  • Engineering and IT2,146 · 23.2%
  • Design1,025 · 11.1%
  • Music, Theatre and Other Arts990 · 10.7%
  • Social Work919 · 10.0%
  • Applied Psychology775 · 8.4%
  • Architecture, Construction and Planning618 · 6.7%
  • Health137 · 1.5%
  • Chemistry and Life Sciences109 · 1.2%
  • Teacher education13 · 0.1%

Level of study, 2025/26

  • Bachelor's6,493 · 70.3%
  • Master's2,190 · 23.7%
  • Continuing education535 · 5.8%
  • Diploma13 · 0.1%

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, 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, Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, 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.