Nine universities in Switzerland are featured in the QS World University Rankings 2019, all of which rank in the top 650. ETH Zurich and EPFL, both within the global top 30, are joined by five more Swiss universities ranked among the world’s top 200. This is even more impressive when you consider that the population of the entire country is just 8.5 million (for comparison, that’s about the same as that of the US state of Virginia).

As well as having a strong presence in the international ranking tables, universities in Switzerland are also very international in terms of their student and academic communities. Four of the eight ranked Swiss universities make the world’s top 100 for their percentage of international students, and the country also performs well when comparing the percentage of international academic staff members to universities in other countries.