Statistics on Swiss Educational Levels

(State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI, June 21, 2013)

About a third of foreign nationals (born in Switzerland or abroad) have only completed compulsory education (35% and 34% respectively), compared with only a quarter of foreign-born Swiss people (27%) and a fifth of Swiss people born in Switzerland (19%). Foreign nationals born abroad are most likely to have completed tertiary-level education and training (31%), compared with 29% of foreign-born Swiss people, 27% of Swiss people born in Switzerland and 17% of foreign nationals born in Switzerland. Whereas similar numbers of foreign national women and men born abroad complete tertiary education or training (30% and 33% respectively), the largest tertiary-level educational attainment gap is found between Swiss women and men born in Switzerland (19% versus 35%).