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Zurich University of Teacher Education

Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich · University of teacher education (PHZH) · canton of Zurich · Zurich

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Students, 2025/26

4,149

Foreign nationals

9.5%

396 students

Largest field

Pre-school and primary teaching

59.2% of students

Institutional accreditation

to 25 Mar 2028

decided 26 Mar 2021, as listed on 3 September 2026

PH Zürich belongs to the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZFH) network but is accredited and counted on its own.

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: 2,0082025/26: 4,149
2025/264,149
2024/253,898
2023/243,808
2022/233,839
2021/223,911
2020/213,849
2019/203,605
2018/193,589
2017/183,417
2016/173,384
2015/163,425
2014/153,341
2013/143,222
2012/132,719
2011/122,046
2010/111,931
2009/101,817
2008/091,747
2007/081,885
2006/072,008

Fields of study, 2025/26

Field names translated by CollegeMatcher.

  • Pre-school and primary teaching2,456 · 59.2%
  • Lower-secondary teaching1,015 · 24.5%
  • Teaching in vocational schools548 · 13.2%
  • Subject didactics130 · 3.1%

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: Bern 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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