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General Provisions
Recognition of foreign upper secondary school-leaving certificates: general provisions for all countries.
Recognised upper secondary school-leaving certificate
- Diploma Nivel Secundário de Educaçao
- Certificado Nivel Secundário de Educaçao
with the following general education subjects (during the last 3 years)
- First language (native language)
- Second language
- Mathematics
- Natural sciences (biology, chemistry or physics)
- Humanities and social sciences (geography, history or economics/law)
- Elective (one subject from category 2, 4 or 5)
Language skills and/or exams under reserve.
Admission requirements of each university
valid for the academic year 2019/20
EPFL | Upper secondary school-leaving certificate + Entrance Examination EPFL |
ETHZ | Upper secondary school-leaving certificate + certificate of university admission in the desired academic subject provided by a recognised Portuguese university + reduced Entrance Examination ETHZ.Otherwise: Comprehensive Entrance Examination ETHZ |
Basel | University degree (at least 3 years) |
Bern | University degree (at least 3 years) |
Fribourg | University degree (at least 3 years) |
Genève | University degree (at least 3 years) |
Lausanne | University degree (at least 3 years) |
Luzern | University degree (at least 3 years) |
Neuchâtel | University degree (at least 3 years) |
St. Gallen | University degree (at least 3 years) + HSG admission test |
Zürich | University degree (at least 3 years) |
USI | Faculty of Lugano: University degree (at least 3 years) Academy of Architecture: Upper secondary school-leaving certificate with proof of the following: tuition in the subjects 1. mathematics, 2. physics or chemistry and 3. Native language and a foreign language. Each of these subjects must be part of the final exam and passed with the minimum grade average of 70% + three of the following subjects must have been part of the final 3 years of schooling: geometry or applied mathematics, geography, history, modern languages, natural sciences |