In 2017, there were 31,293 doctoral students at Switzerland’s two federal technical universities, EPFL in Lausanne and ETHZ in Zurich. This record figure is 1,000 more than in 2016 and 10,000 more than 10 years ago. Based on native language, the largest groups were German speakers (48.1%), French speakers (17.1%), Italian speakers (6.8%), English speakers (6.5%) and other languages (21.5%). Switzerland’s three main languages are German, French and Italian. More on this:Swiss government press release (in French) – Take a 5 minute French test nowFor more stories like this on Switzerland follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Source: Le News May 02, 2018 20:48 UTC