Selection procedure for admission to the Bachelor's programme

Foreign applicants for a Bachelor's degree who have recognised secondary school leaving certificates can be admitted via the HSG selection procedure.

The following applicants are exempt from the selection process:

• applicants with Swiss or Liechtenstein nationality
• applicants with a Swiss permanent residence permit C
• applicants with a recognised Swiss or Liechtenstein maturity certificate (Maturität, Matura)
• applicants with a degree from a recognised Swiss university

You must first apply for admission at the HSG via the online application tool. If you fulfil all admission requirements, you will receive in your electronic mailbox (Compass Mailbox) a confirmation letter with information on how to register for the HSG selection procedure.
Please find the link to your mailbox in the Online Application user account at the top right of your status overview page. Use your Online Application log-in credentials to access your mailbox.

As soon as you have registered for the selection procedure successfully the chosen date will show on your online application status page.

If you submit your complete application by January 15, you can register by January 31 for the selection procedure in February. For later applications, only the date in June is available.

The admission test can only be taken once for the chosen academic year. You are allowed to participate in the selection procedure once again next year at the earliest.

You must complete the HSG selection procedure in the language that you specified as your language of instruction for the first year of your programme (Assessment Year).

You will need a notebook or a PC desktop with a functioning camera, microphone and sound. Mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets are not permitted. Approximately 10 days prior to the test, you will receive an email with further details from our test provider directly.

You may use a simple pocket calculator. Additional resources such as dictionaries are not permitted.

Your video interview consists of four to six prerecorded questions about your motivation and interests, which you will answer using your computer webcam and your microphone. Please find the most important points for preparing the video interview in this fact sheet:
https://unisg.link/InstructionsVideoInterview

If you have no access to a computer with a webcam, you may record your interview using a smartphone or a tablet. You will receive further details in our email invitation.

On-line test

By noon on Thursday after the test, the status in your online application account will be adjusted accordingly:
«Conditionally accepted» or «Declined» or «Video interview»
Please log in to your Online Application user account to check the status of your application.

Video interview

21 days after the interview at the latest, the status in your online application will be adjusted accordingly:
«Conditionally accepted» or «Declined»
Please log in to your Online Application user account to check the status of your application.

A view days after the final decision, you will receive the Letter of Admission or the Letter of Rejection in your electronic mailbox (Compass Mailbox). You will find the link to your mailbox in your Online Application user account at the top right of the status overview page. Use your Online Application log-in credentials to access your mailbox.

The online test is an aptitude and not knowledge test. Intellectual capacity, creativity and the ability to solve problems are crucial. The online test is divided into two sections: "quantitative problem-solving" and "diagram interpretation and tables". The test lasts 70 minutes. Under this link you will find an exercise test with sample tasks.

Your video interview consists of four to six prerecorded questions and lasts about 10 minutes. Your motivation, your interest and your reflective and expressive skills are assessed.

You are allowed to participate in the selection procedure once again next year at the earliest.

No, this is not possible.