Two universities may triple tuition fees for foreign students

Foreign students at Switzerland’s federal technology institute ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) may soon have to pay at least three times as much as Swiss students in tuition fees. Currently, fees are the same for Swiss and foreign students, reports Keystone-SDA.

On Wednesday 29 May, the House of Representatives adopted the proposal by its Science, Education and Culture Committee (WBK-N) when discussing the Federal Council’s motion on the promotion of education, research and innovation 2025-28. The Senate still must decide on the proposal.

The spokesperson for the WBK-N committee said that Swiss tuition fees were among the lowest in the world. Even if fees were tripled, they would still be among the most moderate internationally, said Katja Christ, a Liberal Green Party parliamentarian from Basel.
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