A management school is a federally recognized higher technical college for the fields of business, marketing, sales, human resources and real estate. It offers a practical education at the interface between academia and the professional world. It provides interested students with a contemporary education and a career as a specialist and manager in various business management fields.

With executive education at an executive school, you lay the foundation for many higher technical colleges and federal certificates as well as for the vocational baccalaureate. The vocational baccalaureate allows examination-free entry to universities of applied sciences and, with the Passerelle, even admission to university or ETH. So you can definitely start your own career with a management school.

The advantages of management schools are as follows:

• Practice-oriented management training;
• Practical management experience
• Building a network of relationships
• Degree recognized throughout Switzerland
• Deepen personality skills
• Strengthen self and time management
• Practicing situation and situation analysis
• Learning planning and decision-making techniques
• Train communication and conflict resolution skills
• Promoting networked thinking and putting it into practice

The following topics are covered in management training:

• Leadership (people management)
• Personal and social skills
• Management (leadership and staff techniques)
• Training methodology
• Applied sciences
• Business administration
• Finances
• Operational planning and management
• Project management
• Partly languages, sports and science subjects

The Association of Swiss Management Schools is made up of members from specially selected private management schools. Together they offer attractive training courses at clerk and middle management level - practice and degree-oriented. It is a contemporary education and a career as a specialist and manager in various business areas. Thanks to uniform examinations and a quality assurance system with ongoing controlling, the courses are of a high standard and thus recognized by employers and students throughout Switzerland.

If you compare the topics that have been at the forefront of management training over the years, they change over time. The five most current trends in management training are currently (as of 2023)

• Digitalization and online learning - continuing education in online formats such as webinars, online courses and virtual workshops are more efficient, flexible and cost-effective
• Microlearning and learning in small steps - microlearning methods in which learning content is presented in short, easily digestible units (more effective and sustainable)
• Personalization and individualization - individualized learning plans and personalized content to meet the specific goals and challenges of each manager
• Soft skills and emotional intelligence - Soft skills such as communication, empathy, people orientation and emotional intelligence are just as crucial to the success of managers
• Sustainability and social responsibility - also paying attention to social and ecological aspects and making sustainable and socially responsible decisions