THEMIS

General application prerequisites

• Enrolled in a HSG Bachelor or Master programme at the time of application.
• Minimum 5.0 grade average of passed Bachelor or Master studies relevant for the admission to the HSG Master degree studies. The average will be rounded to two decimal points.

Requirements for beginning the exchange semester

• Enrolled in a HSG Master programme.

In the application you may enter up to two THEMIS universities of your choice and in the order of your preference. When making your exchange university selections, consider the language of instruction, the local language, available fields of study, semester dates, travel advisories, etc. Detailed information with semester dates, fact sheets and experience reports are available in StudentWeb. Please do not contact Student Mobility Services before you have not checked the detailed information in StudentWeb. You will be granted access to it after having been immatriculated at HSG.

Participation

The THEMIS programme is for MIL, MLaw and MLE HSG students only. Graduate level law students from the HSG will be able to go on exchange in autumn term at one of the partner universities within the network, attend a specialised 3-days THEMIS seminar in spring term and participate in an international internship (organised by the students her/himself). Students who are selected to participate in the THEMIS programme will obtain not only their local law degree but also the International THEMIS Certificate.

Exchange period

Autumn semester: Begin of exchange between 1 July and 31 December is considered as absence in autumn semester

Application...

...in the 1st semester of the Master‘s level for exchange in the 3rd (autumn semester)
...in the 2nd semester of the Master‘s level (when degree studies commenced in spring semester) for exchange in the 4th semester (autumn semester)

Please find further information in the download section of this page.

For your Student Mobility Services exchange application, you must submit one of the following English certifications with the minimum scores listed below. These minimum scores are required for all applications, regardless of any lower requirements from specific partner universities. Applications without a valid certification meeting these minimum scores cannot be considered. All English language certifications and degrees must not be older than two years at the application deadline:​​​​

Important: Certain partner universities may not accept the above-listed certifications or may require an even higher test result. It is the student’s responsibility to verify and fulfill these specific requirements by the Student Mobility Services exchange application deadline.

A minimum of 24 transferable and THEMIS accredited ECTS course credits must be completed with a positive grade at the host university, otherwise no credits from the exchange term will be transferred towards the HSG degree.

A maximum of 30 ECTS course credits (Master thesis excluded) can be credited to the HSG degree per exchange semester at Master’s level.

Tuition fees must be paid at the HSG during the semester abroad. HSG students are not required to pay basic tuition fees at the host university but will be responsible for all other costs related to their semester abroad. 

Students spending an exchange semester at one of our European partner universities through the THEMIS exchange programme are eligible to apply for a SEMP scholarship. The application procedures will be available in the Mobility-Online portal after allocation of the exchange university. SEMP programme regulations may be subject to change by the Swiss Federal Council.

You can find further scholarship opportunities here:

Loans and scholarships