Switzerland - academic equivalencies
Undergraduate
We require a Federal Secondary School Leaving Certificate, which in different areas of the country is referred to as:
- (French-speaking) Certificat de Maturité / Certificat de Maturité Cantonal reconnu par la Confédératio
- (German-speaking) Maturität / Eidgenössisch anerkanntes kantonales Maturitätszeugnis
- (Italian-speaking) Attestato di Maturità / Attestato di Maturità Cantonale riconosciuto dalla Confederazione.
| A-level |
UCAS Tariff points |
Comparable offer (1-6 max) | Comparable offer (1-10 max) | Comparable offer (5-1 max) | Corresponding subject grades |
| AAA | 360 | 6 | 10 | 1 | A = 6 / 10 / 1 |
| AAB | 340 | 5.5 | 9 | 1.5 | |
| ABB | 320 | 5.8 | 8.5 | 1.8 | |
| BBB | 300 | 5 | 8 | 2 | B = 5 / 8 / 2 |
| BBC | 280 | 4.8 | 7.5 | 2.2 | |
| BCC | 260 | 4.6 | 7 | 2.4 | |
| CCC | 240 | 4.4 | 6.5 | 2.6 | C = 4 / 6 / 3 |
Postgraduate
We require a Diplom/Diplôme; Lizentiat/Licence; Staatsdiplom/Diplôme d'Etat OR a Fachhochschule Diplom (FH)/Hautes Écoles Specialisées Diplôme OR a bachelor degree (post-2001).
| Grade (1-6 scale) | Grade (1-5 scale) | Grade (1-10 scale) | German | French | Italian | English translation or equivalent |
| 6 | 1 | 10 | sehr gut |
trés bien | molto bene |
Very good = 1st |
| 5 | 2 | 8 | gut |
bien | bene | Good = 2:1 |
| 4 | 3 | 7 | genügend |
sufficiant | sufficiente | Fair = 2:2 |
English language equivalency
We will not accept a Swiss English language qualification as meeting our minimum English language proficiency requirements.

