Recognition of diplomas

The Validation of Prior Learning (Validations des Acquis d’Expérience - VAE) is designed to recognize professional experience.

If your aim is to obtain recognition of your foreign university diploma, you will need to undertake a different procedure to VAE, depending on the intended objective:

• If you wish to study at UNIGE, your foreign diploma will be reviewed as part of the enrollment and admission procedure;
  • Apply to UNIGE
  • Enrollment conditions
  • Enrollment application procedure
• To have your professional diploma recognized in order to work in Switzerland, please contact the following authorities:
  • State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
  • European Network of Information Centres (ENIC)