Each year, swissuniversities publishes data on the gender distribution of faculty hires at universities, as well as on the total proportion of female professors at these institutions. These figures are used as a basis for strategic discussions by the Chamber of Universities.

Statistics from 2017 onwards have been established by the Federal Statistical Office according to a new methodology on the basis of the Higher Education Personnel Survey of the Swiss Higher Education Information System. In view of the relatively small number of observations, the results are presented over a three-year period in order to take into account the effect of annual variations and to guarantee data protection.

Additional charts and statistics are available here : German / French.

In addition to these elements, the Benchmarking pilot project collects data from all three types of higher education institutions. More information is available on the project website.