Our educational programs and our research in management and law enable entrepreneurial activity and contribute to resolving social challenges. We stand for Swiss excellence with a global reach.

We deliver innovative, interdisciplinary and intellectually challenging education in management, economics and law, enabling our graduates to compete successfully in the domestic and international environment.

We contribute to the success of private and public sector enterprises and organizations through research, continuing education and consulting.

We practice and actively promote sustainable development and corporate responsibility.

Our highly qualified faculty and staff utilize their expertise to advance knowledge and practice in areas most relevant to our stakeholders.

Rooted in the Zurich metropolitan area we cultivate strong national and international alliances and partnerships.

Building Competence. Crossing Borders.

The ZHAW School of Management and Law (ZHAW SML) is a national leader with global reach in degree programmes, research, and continuing education. With academic excellence and an entrepreneur-ial mindset, the ZHAW SML creates impact for business and society.

The ZHAW SML is a leading business school and meets the world’s highest quality standards. The ZHAW SML creates an environment that allows it to attract, develop, and retain qualified, motivated, and performance-oriented employees.

The ZHAW SML offers Bachelor’s, Master’s, and cooperative PhD programs with both a national and international focus that are challenging, performance-oriented, and geared towards practical application. It promotes holistic and critical thinking among students and empowers them to assume responsibility.

The ZHAW SML is recognized within the scientific community as an excellent business school and a competent partner for applied research and development at an internationally competitive level.

The ZHAW SML positions itself as a successful national, and in some areas also international, provider of innovative and customer-oriented continuing education and services.

The ZHAW SML positions itself as a responsible business school and contributes to the sustainable development of society.

The ZHAW SML is closely involved with civil society, business, and science, fosters national and international networks, and cooperates with strategic partners.

We work together in a respectful and cooperative way which transcends structural boundaries. We promote and value the skills of all our employees, regardless of their position in the organization.

We offer a working environment which promotes initiative and creativity. We encourage and expect our employees to be motivated and to think and act independently. We support innovation and give our employees a platform to explore and communicate new ideas.

We safeguard and cultivate diversity for the benefit of knowledge acquisition, innovation, and social cohesion. The diversity of our employees is fundamental to our success.

We behave with integrity in all we do. We believe in the value and preservation of academic and organizational freedom.

We set ourselves ambitious goals and consistently deliver quality work in our four performance areas. We are guided by scientific principles in all we do.

Through innovative knowledge generation, transfer, and application, we make a relevant contribution to the welfare and development of society as a whole.

We promote and cultivate personal contacts with our stakeholders (*) to assist in collaborative ventures.

(*) Stakeholders include commercial clients, universities, other ZHAW schools and departments, sponsors, chambers of commerce, media, learned societies, official bodies, and professional associations.

Retention rates are used to measures the proportion of students of degree programs and participants of continuing education programs who are successful in completing their academic studies.

A Bachelor’s program consists of two stages: first-year studies and main study period.

• The retention rate for students in their first-year studies is 70%.
• In the case of students not passing their first-year studies and having to repeat part of the program, the retention rate is 50%.
• The retention rate for the main study period of Bachelor’s programs is 95%. Approximately 90% of students complete their main study period within the standard period required (i.e., 2 years for full-time and 2.5 years for part-time students).

Our consecutive Master’s programs have a retention rate of 75%.

Our continuing education Master’s programs have a retention rate of 95%.