The Rankings — 2026/27
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World's Top Schools, Ranked.
Every ranked and candidate school in the directory, one continuous list from #1 down. Use this view when you want the full picture without switching between tiers.
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Penny's picks
Switzerland · Vaud
Institut Le Rosey
VerifiedTerm time splits between Lake Geneva and the Alps, a 140-year migration built around bilingual IB and French Baccalaureate study.
80.9
Score
Switzerland · Geneva
International School of Geneva
Born beside the League of Nations in 1924, where its own teachers first drafted the IB diploma.
76.4
Score
Switzerland · St Gallen
Institut auf dem Rosenberg
Above St Gallen's art-nouveau villas, a 1:2 staff ratio powers a 40-course Talent and Enrichment path from robotics to hospitality.
72.9
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
Aiglon College
Perched at 1,200 metres in the Swiss Alps, meditation and expedition learning are as core to the timetable as the IB Diploma.
72.5
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil
Since 1910, alpine boarding at 4,429 feet, where house culture is built for ridge hikes and a record Kilimanjaro summit push.
70.4
Score
Switzerland · Geneva
Institut International de Lancy
Founded in 1903 near Geneva, this campus runs French, British and bilingual tracks side by side into the IB diploma.
69.2
Score
Switzerland · Zug
International School of Zug and Luzern
A 17th-century manor anchors the full IB continuum here, with its own alpine outdoor campus tucked away in Wengen
69.2
Score
Switzerland · Basel-Landschaft
International School of Basel
Basel's only full-continuum IB school, where 2025 Diploma candidates outpaced the world average pass rate, 96.6% to 80%.
69.0
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
International School of Lausanne
The only IB World School in the Lausanne area running the full PYP-MYP-Diploma continuum, its campus tending beehives alongside a community garden.
67.7
Score
Switzerland · Geneva
Ecole Moser
The only school in French-speaking Switzerland pairing the Swiss Maturite with a full IB Diploma track, taught across French, German and English.
66.5
Score
Switzerland · Grisons
Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz
At 1,750 metres in the Engadine, IB and Swiss Matura classes share the calendar with cricket on Europe's highest pitch, in play since 1922.
65.8
Score
Switzerland · Zurich
Zurich Dance Academy (Tanz Akademie Zürich)
Daily classical training inside a full university of the arts, feeding dancers toward Prix de Lausanne and stages worldwide.
65.1
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
La Côte International School
A British-rooted day education from age 3 in Aubonne, culminating in the IB Diploma at 18.
64.8
Score
Switzerland · Geneva
Collège du Léman
On the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland's largest K-12 campus threads five diploma pathways into one international community.
64.2
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
Leysin American School
On a ski-in, ski-out Alpine campus above Lake Geneva, slope time is timetabled into the American-IB week itself.
63.2
Score
Switzerland · Bern
International School of Berne
Just outside Switzerland's federal capital, the only school in the Bern region to run the full IB continuum from age three to eighteen.
63.1
Score
Switzerland · Ticino
TASIS The American School in Switzerland
Founded in 1956 as Europe's first American boarding school, perched above Lake Lugano with academic travel woven into the curriculum.
62.5
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
St George's International School (Montreux)
Founded in 1927 by two Oxford graduates on the shores of Lake Geneva, pairing British rigor with IB ambition.
61.8
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
Collège Champittet
A Dominican-founded lakeside campus above Lake Geneva, where boarders choose between IB, French Bac and Swiss Maturite tracks.
61.6
Score
Switzerland · Zurich
Zurich International School
On Lake Zurich's shore, a 1963-founded day school pairs American diplomas and the IB with a bilingual German-English track from age three.
61.6
Score
Switzerland · Zurich
Inter-Community School Zurich
Since 1960, the sole Zurich school carrying students through the full IB continuum, from a Zumikon hillside campus above the lake.
60.9
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
Surval Montreux
Switzerland's only all-girls international boarding school pairs A-Level rigor with a rare etiquette curriculum above Lake Geneva.
60.8
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
Chantemerle Bilingual School
Above Lake Geneva, a family-run campus since 1966 pairs Swiss Matura rigor with a bilingual French-English track for late French starters.
60.4
Score
Switzerland · Geneva
Institut Florimont
A Catholic foundation since 1905 that now sends students down three separate paths to a diploma: Swiss, French, or IB.
60.3
Score
Switzerland · Valais
Le Régent International School
A purpose-built 2015 alpine campus at 1,500m pairing British and IB curricula with daily ski-in, ski-out outdoor education.
60.0
Score
Switzerland · Bern
John F. Kennedy International School
In the Alpine resort village of Gstaad, IGCSE rigor meets a bilingual Swiss curriculum built around winter ski culture.
59.5
Score
Switzerland · Valais
Copperfield International School Verbier
IB day and boarding school in the Swiss Alps, with a ski-in, ski-out campus and small class sizes.
59.4
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
Brillantmont International School
Five generations of one family have run this boarding school in central Lausanne since 1882, minutes from Lake Leman.
58.7
Score
Switzerland · Zug
Institut Montana Zugerberg
A funicular climbs to a mountain campus of converted grand hotels above Lake Zug, where Swiss Matura and IB run side by side since 1926.
56.3
Score
Switzerland · Vaud
La Garenne International School
Where the chairlift meets the classroom, this family-run Alpine boarding school pairs IB rigor with two ski days a week.
49.5
Score
Methodology
How we rank
Our composite weights eight categories. Each is scored 0–100 by our editorial panel and audited against 30 sub-criteria drawn from school records, university placement audits, alumni surveys, campus visits and parent interviews. Schools cannot pay for placement or preview scores.
Weighting
- Academic Outcomes20%
- University Placement17%
- Prestige & Heritage13%
- Alumni Network13%
- Facilities13%
- Transparency & Communications8%
- Peer & Industry Review10%
- Admissions Selectivity & Demand8%
Score key
Reading the scores
Bands out of 100
Every category, sub-criterion and composite total across this issue uses the same six-band editorial palette. Bands are calibrated against the full 300-school cohort — a "Distinguished" mark is meaningfully harder to earn than a "Strong" one.
- Exceptional90–100
Top of cohort
- Distinguished80–89
Elite tier
- Strong70–79
Consistently high
- Solid60–69
Reliable performer
- Average50–59
Room to grow
- Below par< 50
Underperforming
The same colour bands are used inside each school profile, on category chips, radar charts and the annual score-history line — so a colour glimpsed on the Rankings page always means the same thing everywhere else.