Higher Commercial Studies

Conditions valid for 2025.

Further information can be found in the Faculty’s pre-admission examination regulations, the only authoritative text. It is available from the Faculty secretariat or on the Faculty website. The information below is for guidance only.

The requirements for admission are set out in the regulations for the preliminary entrance examination to the Faculty of Advanced Business Studies, available on the Faculty's website.

In parallel with your registration with the UNIL Registrar's Office, you must submit a registration file to the Faculty Registrar's Office.

Deadlines

Your application must be submitted by 31 January preceding the summer session in which you wish to sit the preliminary examination.

As a reminder, you must register with UNIL's Registrar's Office by 30 April prior to the summer session in which you wish to sit the preliminary examination.

Composition of the application

Your registration file must contain:

• a full curriculum vitae;
• a copy of qualifications obtained;
• a copy of passport, identity card and, for foreign nationals, settlement permit, Swiss work permit or refugee permit;
• an authenticated translation of documents not in French, German, Italian or English;
• a covering letter explaining why you have chosen to study at the HEC Faculty.

In accordance with Article 9 of the Directive 3.16 on Preliminary Entrance Examinations for University Baccalaureate Courses in UNIL Faculties, successful completion of the preliminary entrance examination entitles the candidate to admission to the faculty for 2 years from the autumn semester immediately following the examination session.

Secretarial office
Faculty of Advanced Business Studies
Internef – 1015 Lausanne
+41 21 692  33 00
hecbachelor@unil.ch
unil.ch/hec

Study Adviser
Marie-José Mattheeuws-Schmid
Internef 257.1
+41 21 692 33 18
Marie-Jose.Mattheeuws-Schmid@unil.ch
Prior contact by email

Subject to change. Only regulatory texts are authentic.
Last update: June 2024