In Switzerland, most children go to public schools. Private schools usually are expensive and people send the children as of last resort being unfamous for quality compared to Public schools.

Municipalities — provide kindergarten, primary and secondary schools.

Cantons – provide at least one secondary school and have nine universities

Confederation- run 2 Universities

• Kindergarten – Not Compulsory, though children aged 4-6 years go for 1-2 years.
• Volksschule (“elementary school”)- Mandatory for every child. Must attend at least the elementary school, compulsorily at the age of seven up to 15-16 years, run by the cantons. They can go to either public or private schools
• Apprenticeship & Fachhochschule (FH)- After Elementary School, Child may go to apprenticeship , then , either to Secondary School or Fachhochschule (FH) i.e. (“Technical College”).
• Gymnasium (“secondary school”) and
• Universitaten (“universities”). Total eleven universities in Switzerland, nine are run by cantons, and two are run by the confederation.

There are eleven Universitaten (“universities”) in Switzerland, nine of them are run by a canton, two are run by the confederation.

Universities run by the cantons provide non-technical subjects. Universities run by the confederation provide technical subjects. They are therefore called “Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology”.

To be eligible to attend an university for study of 4.5 years, a student must have finished a Gymnasium and own a graduation diploma.
The education is now broken up into two parts similar to the education in the USA:

• a bachelor study (three years)
• a masters study (one and a half or two years))
• After a successful completion of the masters study, one can start working on a thesis in order to get a doctor title. This takes usually three to four years