Fribourg has the youngest population in Switzerland and a higher education landscape that is as diverse as it is dense.

Alongside its cosmopolitan university, where over 10,000 students are enrolled in a wide range of undergra- duate and postgraduate programs, the canton has five specialist higher education institutes: the School of Engineering and Architecture, the School of Management, the School of Social Work, the School of Health Sciences and the School of Teacher Education. It is also home to the Adolphe Merkle Institute, Switzerland’s leading research and teaching center in the field of nanosciences and material sciences.

The renowned EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) has a satellite here. Added to these is a plethora of colleges specializing in fields such as business administration, agriculture, music, art, multimedia and hospitality.

Of course, there is a broad host of primary, junior and senior high schools, as well as vocational training schools and colleges. Throughout the education system, classes are taught in French and German, while English is the language of choice for many postgraduate programs.