The American Institute of Applied Sciences in Switzerland began in 1963, at the creation of the American College of Switzerland, whose academic body had the vision of combining both the effectiveness of American graduate education with the Swiss work ethic.

Business & Hotel Management School (BHMS) is a private business & hospitality school with four campuses in Lucerne, Switzerland established in 1998. B.H.M.S. School provides undergraduate, graduate, and post graduate programs in the fields of Hotel Management, Culinary Arts, and Masters in Hospitality and Global Management.

César Ritz Colleges Switzerland is a hospitality school with campuses in Le Bouveret and Brig, Switzerland. It is named after Swiss hôtelier and hospitality leader César Ritz—founder of the Hôtel Ritz in Paris and the Ritz and Carlton Hotels in London.

Culinary Arts Academy Switzerland is a culinary school located in Switzerland and a member school of Swiss Education Group. Bachelor students are based at the Le Bouveret campus in French-speaking Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva. Master's students, as well as the Chocolate and Pastry Specialisation students, are based at the city campus of Lucerne, in German-speaking Switzerland.

EU Business School is a private business school with campuses in Geneva (Switzerland), Barcelona (Spain), and Munich (Germany). It is a member of OMNES Education Group since 2022. EU Business School offers business education programs taught in English. Its program offer includes bachelor's, master's, MBA and doctorate degrees in Business Administration (BBA, MBA, and DBA). It also provides foundation programs and an Executive BBA.

In 1995, the Institut de Formation de Gestionnaire de Patrimoine was founded in Geneva. In 2001, The University of Finance was created to provide education in International Banking and Finance to bankers and students. The Canton of Geneva asked the University of Finance to take over ownership of the bankrupt Geneva Business Institute in 2003, and was renamed Business and Management University Ltd.

The Glion Institute of Higher Education (informally Glion) is a private hospitality management school with campuses in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It is owned by Eurazeo, a private equity firm based in Paris, and it forms part of the education group Sommet Education.

HTMi, Hotel and Tourism Management Institute Switzerland is a private educational institute, that offers undergraduate and postgraduate academic degrees. The Institute provides hospitality management development courses and has its campus in Sörenberg, Switzerland. Each semester the Institute has approximately 200 students from more than 35 nationalities to engage its range of programmes, of which a similar number of additional students will be concurrently undertaking work placements, supported by the school, in Switzerland and internationally to consolidate their academic training.

Hotel Institute Montreux (HIM), founded in 1984, is a for-profit, private hotel school located in Montreux, Switzerland that provides an education for students wanting to gain an education in the hospitality industry. The school offers a bachelor's degree program in Business Administration in Hospitality Management with options to specialize in Financial Analysis & Wealth Management, Human Capital & Development, Management for the Senior Living Industry, Luxury Brand Management, and Franchise Business Management.

IHTTI School Of Hotel and Design Management was a hospitality management school in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. IHTTI opened in 1986 as one of Switzerland's first English speaking hotel management schools and was officially registered in the canton of Neuchâtel as a private school.

IHTTI was owned by Swiss Education Group (SEG), one of six investment holdings in the Invision IV portfolio of companies, and was a member of the Swiss Hotel Schools Association Swiss Hotel Schools Association (ASEH).

In 2021, IHTTI ranked tenth in the world among hospitality and leisure schools, according to the QS World University Rankings.

IMI International Management Institute, Switzerland is a private hospitality school offering programmes from foundation level to Master of Science. It offers students the opportunity to undertake paid, practical internships as part of their programme either in Switzerland or internationally. It is one of Switzerland's smaller private hotel schools (with a maximum of 200 students per semester) and aims to offer students a highly personalised educational experience. The school has over 25 years of offering Swiss hospitality education and was named in the top 20 providers of hospitality management education in the 2019 QS rankings.

The International Institute in Geneva (IIG) -- formerly known as International University in Geneva - IUN or IUG), founded in 1997, is a private business school in Geneva, Switzerland. The business school is located in the International Centre Cointrin, next to Geneva Airport.

Les Roches is a private hospitality school owned by Eurazeo and located in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. The school offers a range of undergraduate, graduate and MBA courses in the field of hospitality management. Les Roches has campuses in Switzerland and Spain.

Swiss Hotel Management School (SHMS) is a private hospitality management school in Montreux and Leysin, Switzerland. It trains students in the hotel and hospitality industries. The school offers a Bachelor of Hospitality Management program, master's programs, a postgraduate diploma program, and an online Executive Master of Hospitality Management. SHMS was ranked in the top 3 institutions for hospitality management in the 2022 QS World University Rankings.