University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland

The FHNW was formed from the merger in 2006 of three Universities of Applied Sciences (Aargau, Basel-Stadt and Basel-Land, and Solothurn), the School of Education of Solothurn and the School of Education and Social Sciences of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Land and the Academy of Music Basel [the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel].
The FHNW and its nine Schools are distributed over four cantons, and the campuses are in Aarau, Basel, Brugg, Liestal, Muttenz, Olten, Solothurn, Windisch and Zofingen.

The Schools all meet the requirements of the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (BBT/OPET) by offering:

* Degree-level programmes of study
* Continuing education (Diplomas of Advanced Studies, Certificates of Advanced Studies)
* Application-oriented research and development
* Services to third-parties
* Collaboration with other schools of higher education/research facilities in Switzerland and abroad

Higher-education experts in Switzerland and abroad have, by means of quality-assurance peer reviews, attested to the FHNW’s high degree of professionalism and quality. At the end of 2003 Switzerland’s Federal Council authorised the establishment of the FHNW for an unlimited period and approved all of its existing programmes of study.

Specialties

degry-level programs of study, continuing education, research, services to third-parties