CAMPUS SURSEE Bildungszentrum Bau, Höhere Fachschule

Switzerland

Address: Leidenbergstrasse 17, 6208 Oberkirch, Luzern, Switzerland

Construction Management, Site Management, Building Technology

CAMPUS SURSEE is a major Swiss education and conference center for the construction industry. Its Höhere Fachschule (HF) offers diploma programs (Dipl. Techniker/-in HF Bauführung) for construction managers, foremen, and other technical building professions.

Domains taught:

Civil Engineering, Engineering, Geotechnics, Manufacturing, Materials, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Metrology, Process Control, Project Management, Quality, Structural Engineering, Thermodynamics

Diplomas*:

Diploma

Status:

Private

Partnerships:

Strongly supported by and networked with the Swiss construction industry and its associations. Focus on practical skills and leadership for construction sites.

Research:

Applied projects and case studies relevant to construction practice, building processes, and site management.

Famous Alumnis:

N/A

International recognition**:

Number of staff***:

150

Current students***:

800

Foreign students***:

Cumulative former students***:

10000

Pros

Leading national center for vocational and higher vocational training in the construction industry. Excellent infrastructure and practical training facilities.

Cons

Highly specialized in the construction sector. Offers HF diplomas, not university degrees.

Best For

Construction professionals seeking advanced technical and management diplomas (HF) for site leadership roles.

Most Similar Schools Locally

Schweizerische Bauschule Aarau offers a comparable education in metrology, quality and geotechnics: it teaches at the same levels, namely diploma, and covers signal processing and fluid dynamics as well.
Both schools build their programmes around metrology, quality and geotechnics, and Baugewerbliche Berufsschule Zürich, Höhere Fachschule is the one to compare first within the country, since it runs the same diploma programmes and covers signal processing and fluid dynamics as well.
Think of Schweizerische Metallbautechnische Fachschule when quality, civil engineering and structural engineering is the priority: it runs the same diploma programmes, and is far smaller, with about 100 students against roughly 800 here.
The comparison with Bildungszentrum Wald Lyss, Höhere Fachschule Holz is straightforward on subjects, since both focus on quality, civil engineering and structural engineering, and it is far smaller, with about 200 students against roughly 800 here, and is public, whereas this institution is private.
sfb Bildungszentrum Dietikon, Höhere Fachschule für Technologie shares the core fields of this institution, namely metrology, quality and structural engineering; it is also a private institution, and teaches at the same levels, namely diploma.

Most Similar Schools Abroad

ESITC Caen offers an international parallel to this school, with quality, geotechnics and civil engineering as common ground; it is also a private institution and also offers master's programmes.
Istituto Tecnico Superiore Maker in Italy shares the quality, project management and process control orientation of this school, and it has almost the same size, at about 800 students, and is also a private institution.
Istituto Tecnico Superiore Lombardia Meccatronica brings a Italy setting to the same core fields, quality, thermodynamics and project management, and it teaches at the same levels, namely diploma, and covers industrial design and robotics as well.
ESITC Metz in France pursues a similar profile in quality, geotechnics and civil engineering, and it is smaller, enrolling about 400 students against roughly 800 here, and is also a private institution.
Salesianos Urnieta offers an international parallel to this institution, with manufacturing, mechanical engineering and engineering as common ground; it covers industrial design and robotics as well, and has almost the same size, at about 800 students.

*our own picks (our criteria: a mix between domains, diploma delivered, reputation and size), but obviously too many criteria for an apple-to-apple ranking.

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*: without any judgment of the quality, readers are strongly encouraged to check the official status of the exact diploma envisioned as many universities have a mix of recognized diplomas, not recognized, “co-delivered,” “equivalent to”, “some pathways” (…), can change over time, and can be named differently from one country to another.

**: international reputation: is based on some criteria that do not mean much in some domains or specialties (number of researchers, of scientific publications, on budget ….). Our approximate 1-4 scale:

known locally
known locally and internationally
is listed in some of the world university’s classifications
is listed among the 20 firsts in some of world university’s classifications

***: estimated numbers, based on online sources and/or feedbacks. The numbers can vary greatly depending on school organisation (ex.: school is part of a group, it employs internal staff or external consultants or has public staff without employing them …). Refer to all the links provided to have accurate and updated numbers.

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