Education and training at the Zurich Financial Center

Zurich enjoys an excellent reputation throughout the world for education, research and development, making the city attractive as a financial knowledge center. The availability of well-qualified staff is the key competitive factor for a financial center.

The Zurich Financial Center can offer diversified educational courses of international standing because the city is home to Switzerland's largest university, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), various universities of applied sciences, and a number of research centers.

Das Eidgenössische Polytechnikum in Zürich (die heutige ETH Zürich), gegründet im Jahr 1854

Federal Polytechnicum in Zurich (today's Swiss Federal Institute of technology Zurich), founded in 1854.

As well as the public-sector educational establishments, the financial players themselves play an important part in providing education and continuing professional development for their employees. Many financial institutions, for instance, have their own business schools or joint centers of competence. Through industry associations, they support vocational training and university courses as well as national cooperation networks and foundations.

The universities, institutes of higher education, and the private providers benefit from the practical knowledge of working students so they can adapt their educational courses to market requirements. This cross-fertilization between the practical and academic worlds is a key success factor in terms of innovative strength and adaptability for the Zurich Financial Center, with its global network.

Excellent Educational Facilities for Banking, Finance, and Insurance

Attractive and internationally recognized educational facilities ensure that the labor market in Zurich - Switzerland's business center - is globally competitive. Switzerland offers a very wide range of educational opportunities for finance, banking, and insurance studies, with various levels of qualification. An overview of the many educational opportunities in finance, banking and insurance can be found in the next pages overview. More…

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    (as of January 2012; no claim to be complete)

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Basic and advanced in-post education is available in Switzerland as a complement to academic education. This dual educational system (including apprenticeships) is unique in the world, and it ensures that the Swiss labor market has an exceptional supply of professional specialists who are also practice-oriented. More…