Swiss universities score good marks

With seven higher-learning institutions in the world’s top 150, Switzerland has performed well in this year’s Times Higher Education (THE) universities ranking - the most important of its kind.  The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, in ninth position, continues to be the only non-English-language university in the top ten, THE revealed on Wednesday.  Further down the list in 31st position is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), followed by the universities of Basel (101), Zurich (104), Bern (120), Geneva (131) and Lausanne (144).  The universities of Fribourg, St Gallen and Neuchâtel came between 200 and 500.  The California Institute of Technology topped the 12th Times Higher Education university ranking, ahead of Oxford and Stanford.  The Swiss institutions belonged to the most international, according to the list’s authors: 27% of their students are foreign, putting them in sixth place. In addition, 45% of teaching staff ...