{"id":10639,"date":"2017-08-19T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T09:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agence-de-traduction.ch\/?page_id=10639"},"modified":"2017-08-19T09:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T09:08:18","slug":"university-of-st-gallen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agence-de-traduction.ch\/en\/study-in-switzerland\/swiss-universities\/university-of-st-gallen\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN<\/h2>\n

The\u00a0University of St. Gallen<\/b>\u00a0(in German:\u00a0Universit\u00e4t St. Gallen) is a\u00a0research university\u00a0located in\u00a0St. Gallen,\u00a0Switzerland. Established in 1898, it is specialized in the fields of business administration, economics, law, and international affairs.\u00a0The University of St. Gallen is also known as\u00a0HSG<\/b>, which is an abbreviation of its former German name\u00a0Handels-Hochschule St. Gallen. In fall 2016, the University of St. Gallen had 8,337 students, of which 3,097 were master’s students and 675 were doctoral students.<\/p>\n

Despite being one of the smallest universities in Switzerland, the University of St. Gallen has Switzerland’s largest faculty for business administration.<\/sup>\u00a0According to the Financial Times, the University of St. Gallen ranks fourth among business schools in Europe and is one of the leading business schools in the world. For the past four years, the\u00a0Financial Times ranked the University of St. Gallen’s Master in Strategy and International Management (SIM) first worldwide, while its master’s program in finance (MBF) was ranked sixth worldwide in 2014.<\/p>\n

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University of St. Gallen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Faculties:<\/h2>\n

Schools, institutes, and research centers<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Following a restructuring in 2011, there are five schools at the University of St. Gallen: the School of Management (SoM-HSG), the School of Finance (SoF-HSG), the Law School (LS-HSG), the School of Economics and Political Science (SEPS-HSG), and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS-HSG). Study programs are typically associated with a specific school but are taught jointly by faculty members from several schools. A special role plays the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law (ES-HSG) which has the status of an Institut mit besonderen gesamtuniversit\u00e4ren Aufgaben and which runs the MBA and executive education programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The crystallization points of research at the University of St. Gallen are about 40 institutes and research centres, which are an integral part of the university. The directors of the institutes double as professors of the University of St. Gallen. Bringing theory and practice together, the institutes provide an important input for teaching at the University and play a significant role in furthering the careers of young academics. 80 tenured professors, 60 assistant professors and senior lecturers, and more than 300 lecturers and 300 assistants, plus distinguished visiting professors cultivate the scientific discourse with the students.<\/p>\n

Student life<\/span><\/h2>\n

The University of St.Gallen hosts 25% international students, an upper limit which has been fixed by the government.<\/p>\n

There are about 80 clubs at the University of St. Gallen. Particularly well-known is the International Students’ Committee, an organization which plans and coordinates the annual\u00a0St. Gallen Symposium. Since 1970 the St. Gallen Symposium brings together leaders from business, science, politics and society with students from all over the world.\u00a0AIESEC\u00a0St. Gallen is a club that was founded in 1951 and that provides an international internship program. The largest club at the University of St.Gallen and the largest of its kind in Switzerland is the HSG Investment Club, a finance-focused career club counting over 1,300 members.\u00a0One of the largest clubs with more than 600 members is DocNet, the doctoral students’ club at the University of St. Gallen. Founded in 2001, a major event of DocNet is the annual DocNet Management Symposium. Also a chapter of\u00a0Oikos International, a student organization for sustainable development, plays an active role at the University of St. Gallen. Other clubs are mostly sports clubs, cultural clubs, or associations of students of different countries or cantons, subject specific clubs related to specializations at the University of St. Gallen as well as fraternities.<\/sup><\/p>\n

The official organization of former students of the University of St. Gallen is HSG Alumni. With more than 19,000 members and 80 alumni clubs on 4 continents, it is one of Europe’s leading associations of its kind. Since 1930, the club has been reinforcing the alumni’s lifelong bonds with the University, as well as the networks among its members, by means of numerous events and information platforms.<\/p>\n

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