HSG's specific principles

We educate entrepreneurial personalities with lifelong ties to the HSG whose actions are informed by social responsibility for the benefit of the economy and society.

1. Teaching and Learning
We offer talented and dedicated students a carefully calibrated range of majors that satisfy the highest international standards and are recognised as such. We strive for educational excellence by means of excellent teaching, transparent course structures, and efficient administrative processes, while at the same time responding to the developments in cutting-edge knowledge and in the global labour market. We seek to inculcate both the skills to solve complex problems in a structured manner and the academic, social, and cultural skills needed for all levels of lifelong learning. In this way, we educate entrepreneurial personalities with lifelong ties to the HSG whose actions are informed by social responsibility for the benefit of the economy and society.

2. People – Research – Added Value
With the HSG’s working environment, we offer academics who are committed to undertaking scholarship and who are interested in interdisciplinary approaches a place for reflection which, thanks to our unqualified commitment to academic freedom, enables them to conduct research at the highest level of excellence. Through this research, we make a contribution towards the solution of current problems in the economy and in society while being globally perceived as an opinion leader in our analyses of selected issues.

3. Internationalisation and Regional Roots
As a consequence of the global presence of our research, the diversity of students and faculty and the fact that we systematically enable both students and faculty to gather study and research experience in foreign countries, we establish and further the HSG’s position in the worldwide university landscape. At the same time, we cultivate and reinforce the HSG’s roots in the city and the canton by increasing the public’s level of awareness of the region and guarantee the region’s access to international knowledge. In this way, we safeguard St. Gallen as an educational location in the long term and contribute to the creation of economic and social value in the region.

4. Entrepreneurship and Financial Power
As a state university, we are careful to create a secure financial framework that safeguards the development of our teaching and research quality. For this reason, we cultivate a sense of entrepreneurship that is in the interest of the University as a whole. For largescale innovation projects, we look to forms of mixed public/private funding while at the same time considering new business models for the University over the longer term. With the help of a high proportion of third-party resources and long-term sponsorship revenues, we are able to further open up and expand the range of our academic activities and strategic scope. In all this, we are aware of the special responsibility that, as a public institution, we bear for how we meet these challenges.