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Bern University of Teacher Education

Pädagogische Hochschule Bern · University of teacher education (PHBern) · canton of Bern · Bern

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Students, 2025/26

2,984

Foreign nationals

6.4%

191 students

Largest field

Lower-secondary teaching

38.0% of students

Institutional accreditation

to 19 Sept 2031

decided 20 Sept 2024, as listed on 3 September 2026

For the universities of teacher education the Office publishes only nationality per institution, not where students were educated, so their figure is the share of foreign nationals — not comparable with the educated-abroad share shown for the other two types. Students are everyone matriculated at a Swiss higher education institution in the autumn (winter) semester, as the Federal Statistical Office defines them.

Students, 2006/07–2025/26

2006/07: 1,9532025/26: 2,984
2025/262,984
2024/252,903
2023/242,932
2022/233,043
2021/222,987
2020/212,825
2019/202,631
2018/192,499
2017/182,479
2016/172,421
2015/162,388
2014/152,372
2013/142,296
2012/132,400
2011/122,260
2010/112,149
2009/102,043
2008/091,797
2007/081,957
2006/071,953

Fields of study, 2025/26

Field names translated by CollegeMatcher.

  • Lower-secondary teaching1,134 · 38.0%
  • Pre-school and primary teaching1,022 · 34.2%
  • Special needs education442 · 14.8%
  • Upper-secondary teaching (baccalaureate schools)327 · 11.0%
  • Subject didactics33 · 1.1%
  • Teacher education, general26 · 0.9%

Level of study, 2025/26

The Federal Statistical Office does not publish a split by level for each university of teacher education.

Accreditation and fees

Institutional accreditation under the Higher Education Act is decided by the Swiss Accreditation Council; an institution needs it to call itself a university, university of applied sciences or university of teacher education. The dates are the decision and the end of the term as the Council's list showed them on 3 September 2026. A term that has ended since may have been renewed — check the Council's list. The Council's list

Each institution sets its own tuition — for ETH Zurich and EPFL the ETH Board does, by ordinance — and many charge students from abroad more. Fees are not published as open data, and swissuniversities' fee tables may not be reused, so no fees are shown here: check each institution's website.

Other universities of teacher education: Zurich University of Teacher Education, University of Teacher Education, Vaud, Lucerne University of Teacher Education, University of Teacher Education in Special Needs, St.Gallen University of Teacher Education, Thurgau University of Teacher Education, Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training, Zug University of Teacher Education, University of Teacher Education BEJUNE, University of Teacher Education, Valais, Graubünden University of Teacher Education, Schwyz University of Teacher Education, Institute of Teacher Education NMS Bern, Schaffhausen University of Teacher Education, University of Speech and Language Therapy, Eastern Switzerland

Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO/BFS), Students and Degrees in Higher Education (SHIS-studex) — tables “Studierende an den universitären Hochschulen nach Jahr, Fachbereich, Studienstufe, Bildungsherkunft und Hochschule” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040100_108); “Studierende an den Fachhochschulen und pädagogischen Hochschulen nach Jahr, Fachbereich, Studienstufe, Geschlecht und Hochschule” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040400_136); “Studierende an den Fachhochschulen und pädagogischen Hochschulen nach Jahr, Fachbereich, Bildungsherkunft und Hochschule, nur Studierende auf Stufen Diplom, Bachelor und Master (ohne Weiterbildung)” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040400_138); “Studierende an den Fachhochschulen (ohne PH) nach Jahr, Fachbereich, Studienstufe, Geschlecht und Hochschule” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040200_170); “Studierende an den pädagogischen Hochschulen (ohne FH) nach Jahr, Fachrichtung, Geschlecht und Hochschule” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040300_191); “Studierende an den pädagogischen Hochschulen (ohne FH) nach Jahr, Fachrichtung, Staatsangehörigkeit (Kategorie) und Hochschule” (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/px-x-1502040300_192). Terms of use: opendata.swiss “Open use. Must provide the source” (https://opendata.swiss/en/terms-of-use). Sums and shares, English names, the English names of university and teacher-education fields, cantons, cities and websites are CollegeMatcher's additions, not the FSO's. Accreditation dates: Swiss Accreditation Council, list of accreditation decisions (https://akkreditierungsrat.ch/en/decisions/), as last updated on 3 September 2026.

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