education statistics switzerland

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Neuchtel,2012

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Education Statistics 2011

EducationandScience

420-1100


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Pupils and Students in 2010/11

Pre-primary, Primary, Lower and Upper Secondary Education

Educationlevel1 Total Men Women Nationalorigin

Swiss Foreign

Pre-primary 148573 76182 72391 110219 38354

Primaryschools 431998 220252 211746 330519 101479

Lowersecondaryschools 288002 145756 142246 226211 61791

Schoolswithbasic requirements 75881 41953 33928 51447 24434

Schoolswithextended requirements 170375 82486 87889 144210 26165

Regardlessoflevel 41746 21317 20429 30554 11192

Specialeducationprogramme 37335 23674 13661 21600 15735

Compulsory education 905 908 465 864 440 044 688 549 217 359

Transitionaleducation loweruppersecondary 16508 7468 9040 10213 6295

Vocationaleducation2 234463 135056 99407 194670 39793

Vocationalmatura3 8148 4258 3890 7365 783

Generaleducation 88958 36390 52568 76001 12957

Complementaryeducation

inuppersecondary 3219 1183 2036 2556 663

Upper secondary education 351 296 184 355 166 941 290 805 60 491

1 UpdatedSwissclassificationofeducation

2 Includingthevocationalmaturaduringthevocationaleducation

3 Vocationalmaturaafterthevocationaleducation


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Students in 2010/11

Tertiary Level

Educationlevel Total Men Women Nationalorigin

Swiss Foreign

Highervocationaleducation 52094 28709 23385 41214 10880

Collegesofhighervocational educationandtraining 21231 11875 9356 18097 3134

Preparationforvocational exams

16534 10111 6423 12674 3860 Preparationforhigher vocationalexams 4237 2856 1381 3683 554

Unregulatedhighervocational education 10092 3867 6225 6760 3332

University 206529 102261 104268 158372 48157

Universities

ofappliedsciences 75035 36896 38139 62564 12471

includingUniversities

ofTeacherEducation 14105 3339 10766 12928 1177

Universities 131494 65365 66129 95808 35686

Humanitiesandsocialsciences 43874 14745 29129 34405 9469

Economics 19039 12717 6322 12386 6653

Law 14856 6555 8301 12490 2366

Exactandnaturalsciences 22197 13696 8501 13918 8279

Medicine/pharmacy 13256 5175 8081 11037 2219

Engineering 14184 10330 3854 8421 5763

Interdisciplinaryandothers 4088 2147 1941 3151 937

Tertiary level 258 623 130 970 127 653 199 586 59 037

Level unspecified 12 730 6 585 6 145 1 626 11 104


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Pupils in 2010/11

Compulsory Education, Cantons

Canton Compulsoryeducation1

Total Pre-primary Primary Lowersecondary

ZH 142039 26438 76248 39353

BE 100482 16375 53693 30414

LU 42632 5099 23425 14108

UR 3970 490 2260 1220

SZ 16901 2532 9268 5101

OW 4053 446 2302 1305

NW 4448 694 2442 1312

GL 4283 760 2170 1353

ZG 12065 2006 6546 3513

FR 35773 5205 19738 10830

SO 26395 4460 13640 8295

BS 16277 3020 5593 7664BL 27804 4681 12149 10974

SH 7944 1303 4153 2488

AR 6313 922 3344 2047

AI 2086 293 1084 709

SG 55916 9432 29840 16644

GR 20118 3296 10840 5982

AG 69430 12201 29943 27286

TG 29427 5120 15478 8829

TI 37227 8394 15513 13320

VD 83178 15153 29588 38437

VS 35465 5890 18585 10990

NE 20463 3412 9307 7744

GE 54996 9464 30045 15487

JU 8888 1487 4804 2597

Switzerland 868 573 148 573 431 998 288 002

1T he37335pupilsinspecialeducationprogrammesareexcluded


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Teachers in 2010/11 and Staff Employed

in Universities 2010 (public education)

Education level

Typeofpersonnel

Persons Full-time

equivalents1

Total ofwhom

Women% Foreign% Total

Compulsory education 87 6672 71.9 4.1 57 560

Pre-primary 14 2262 96.1 2.4 8 186

Primary 441172 81.1 2.8 27334

Lowersecondary 367802

53.0 6.7 22040Specialeducationprogramme - - - -

Upper secondary education3 28 2472 40.3 7.0 16 981

Generaleducation3 112872 43.2 7.7 7573

Vocationaleducation3 169602 38.4 6.5 9408

Tertiary level 101 169 42.5 31.6 49 820

Universitiesofappliedsciences 45422 43.0 20.5 13727Professors 6981 32.7 23.4 4358

Otherteachingstaff 25457 41.5 20.5 2485

Assistantsandscientificpersonnel 5670 40.3 23.3 2783

Clericalandtechnicalpersonnel 7314 60.0 15.3 4100

University 55747 42.2 40.0 36093

Professors 3676 17.0 47.6 3243

Otherteachingstaff 9152 25.5 33.0 2994Assistantsandscientificpersonnel 26588 41.0 52.9 17785

Clericalandtechnicalpersonnel 16331 59.2 20.8 12071

1 Full-timeequivalentsareexpressedastheratioofactualhoursemployedandthenormalhoursofapersonemployedfull-time(e.g.apersonemployedfor50%ofafull-timercountsas0.5full-timeequivalents).

2 Thefiguresincludeallteachersworkingatthelevelofeducationconsidered(double-countingspossible).

3 IncludingtransitionaleducationsecI-secII,vocationalmaturatypeIIandcomplementaryeducationinsecII.


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Selected Degrees and Certificates in 2010

Educationlevel Total Men Women

infigures % infigures %

Upper secondary

Certificateofbasic vocationaleducation 1174 907 77.3 267 22.7

Federalcertificate 3690 1883 51.0 1807 49.0

Federalproficiencycertificate 59389 33202 55.9 26187 44.1

Proficiencycertificate (otherprofessions) 1387 234 16.9 1153 83.1

Tradecertificate 2897 1450 50.1 1447 49.9VocationalMatura 12249 6612 54.0 5637 46.0

AcademicMatura 18865 7991 42.4 10874 57.6

SpecialisedMatura 1404 237 16.9 1167 83.1

Intermediateschoolcertificate 3578 712 19.9 2866 80.1

Tertiary level

Higher vocational education

Diplomafromotherhigher vocationaleducation 4621 1558 33.7 3063 66.3

Federalcertificateofexpertise 13144 8034 61.1 5110 38.9

Masters/federaldiploma 3160 2499 79.1 661 20.9

Vocationalcolleges 7337 3782 51.5 3555 48.5

University

Degreefromuniversity ofappliedsciences 2024 904 44.7 1120 55.3

Universityofappliedsciences Bachelorsdegree 10474 4923 47.0 5551 53.0

Universityofappliedsciences Mastersdegree 2081 840 40.4 1241 59.6

Firstuniversitydegreeordiploma 3500 1325 37.9 2175 62.1

UniversityBachelorsdegree 11537 5560 48.2 5977 51.8

UniversityMastersdegree 7964 4043 50.8 3921 49.2

Doctorate 3588 2031 56.6 1557 43.4


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Public financing for Education according

to the administrative level, 2009

Financial flows for Education, 2009

(without fundamental research)

InCHFmillions

Total Administrativelevelwhichfinances

Confederation

Cantonsandconcordates

Communes

absolutenumbers

% absolutenumbers

% absolutenumbers

% absolutenumbers

%

Financingwith

fundamentalresearch 32346 100.0 5127 15.9 17569 54.3 9650 29.8Financingwithoutfundamentalresearch 29703 100.0 2992 10.1 17061 57.4 9650 32.5

InCHFmillions

Total Confederation Cantonsandconcordates

Communes

absolutenumbers

% absolutenumbers

% absolutenumbers

% absolutenumbers

%

Financing 29 703 100.0 2 992 10.1 17 061 57.4 9 650 32.5Transfers

Confederation tocantons andconcordates -1591 1591 -

Cantons tocommunes - -1187 1187 Communesto cantonsand concordates - 1970 -1970

Total after

transfers 29 703 100.0 1 401 4.7 19 436 65.4 8 866 29.9

Source:FederalFinanceAdministration,Financialstatistics


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Public Expenditure for Education according

to the administrative and the education level, 2009

(without fundamental research)

Educationlevel InCHFmillions

Total Administrativelevelwhichspends

absolutenumbers

% Confede-ration

Cantonsandconcor-dates

Communes

Pre-primary 1048.8 3.5 0.0 598.4 450.5Primaryandlowersecondary levels 12899.5 43.4 20.4 5332.2 7547.0

Specialschools 1727.9 5.8 0.0 1309.7 418.2

Daycare 143.1 0.5 0.0 0.0 143.1

Uppersecondary:Vocational education 3587.7 12.1 22.7 3351.0 214.1

Uppersecondary:General education 2308.1 7.8 1.2 2274.2 32.7

Tertiary:Highervocational education 217.9 0.7 64.0 153.8 0.1

Tertiary:Universities 7250.5 24.4 1287.8 5934.1 28.5

Othertasks 519.8 1.8 5.2 482.4 32.3

Total 29 703.3 100.0 1 401.2 19 435.6 8 866.5

Source:FederalFinanceAdministration,Financialstatistics

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