The University of Lausanne, also known as UNIL, is currently ranked within the global top 150 of the QS World University Rankings. It’s mainly located just outside the city of Lausanne, in the French-speaking region of Switzerland, on a campus on the shores of Lake Geneva, adjacent to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). UNIL had 14,475 students enrolled as of autumn 2016, of which around one in five come from abroad. It also has a strong international atmosphere in its faculty members, with one in three coming from outside Switzerland. Tuition fees at UNIL are low, with all domestic and international bachelor’s and master’s students paying CHF1,160 (~US$1,200) a year.
