A shared grounding across the human sciences: methods of enquiry, the ethics of studying people, and a first specialism within your faculty. Small-group seminars sit alongside lectures from the outset.

• Foundations of human enquiry
• Evidence, statistics and reasoning
• Ethics in research and practice

You deepen within your discipline while keeping one course outside it — a deliberate habit of looking across the field. A supervised project introduces independent work.

• Advanced specialism modules
• One cross-faculty elective
• Supervised research project

The year is built around a substantial dissertation, supported by a small cohort and a dedicated supervisor. You leave able to frame a question, gather evidence and defend a conclusion.

• Dissertation and viva
• Professional placement option
• Capstone seminar

Undergraduates need a Matura-equivalent; postgraduates a relevant first degree (usually upper-second or above). Unconventional backgrounds are welcome.

Most programmes are in English, some in German. Proof of proficiency is required where it isn’t your first language.

Need-based bursaries and merit scholarships are awarded automatically — no separate form, confirmed with your offer.

Yes — open days run year-round, and you’re welcome to visit, sit in on a seminar and meet students.

Decisions for the 2027 intake are released in a single round in March 2027.

Legal identity. Walfer School for Arts & Sciences is an independent private higher education institution, with its institutional identity centred in Zug, Switzerland. It operates as an independent academic institution and is not an agency of the Swiss Confederation or the Canton of Zug.

Institutional status. Walfer is a private institution. It is not a state or cantonal university and does not hold, or claim, the status of an officially recognised Swiss university.

Awarding authority. Walfer awards its own institutional certificates, diplomas, titles and honorary distinctions. Programme workloads are expressed as European credit-mapped workload for international readability; this does not represent an ECTS award by a public credit-awarding authority unless separately confirmed in writing.

Accreditation status. Walfer does not claim governmental accreditation, Swiss accreditation-council recognition, or automatic professional, licensing or immigration value for any programme or award.

Recognition disclaimer. Recognition, credit transfer, equivalency, licensing, immigration value, employment acceptance or professional acceptance of any programme or award may vary by country, institution, employer, regulator and professional body.

Student responsibility. Applicants are responsible for verifying recognition, licensing and equivalency requirements with the relevant authorities in their own jurisdiction before enrolment.

Health, public-health and human-development programmes are designed for education, management, public health, wellness, leadership, community support, research and professional development. They do not qualify graduates to practise medicine, nursing, psychotherapy, pharmacy, clinical diagnosis, treatment or any regulated healthcare profession unless separately recognised by the relevant professional authority in the learner's jurisdiction.

Psychology and counselling programmes do not automatically confer eligibility for regulated clinical psychology, psychotherapy or counselling practice unless recognised by the relevant authority in the learner's jurisdiction.

Walfer expresses programme workload using a European credit-mapped model for international readability. As a guide, one European credit corresponds to approximately 25–30 learning hours, and a full academic year corresponds to approximately 60 credits.

Credit-mapped workload is provided for academic transparency only. Recognition, transfer, equivalency and acceptance depend on receiving institutions, regulators, employers and national authorities.

Enrolment is governed by Walfer's terms of study, academic policies and refund policy. The application fee is non-refundable. Tuition refunds, where applicable, follow the published refund schedule provided with your offer documentation.

Walfer maintains policies for curriculum review, assessment moderation, academic integrity and plagiarism, appeals and complaints, research ethics, and data protection. Academic standards are overseen by the Academic Senate, the Quality Assurance Committee, the Examination Board and the Ethics Committee.

We collect only the information we need to consider an application and to support a student through their studies. Data is held in Switzerland, never sold, and removed when it is no longer required. You may request a copy of, or the deletion of, your records at any time.

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