Admission requirements
To be admitted to the Bachelor's course, you must first pass a practical sports aptitude assessment.
When registering for the practical sports aptitude assessment, you are required to provide evidence of the following qualifications/certificates:
- Baccalaureate from a vocational/technical college or secondary school
- Up-to-date first-aid certificate from the Swiss Federation of Samaritans
- Up-to-date «Brevet Basis Pool» lifesaving certificate from the Swiss Lifesaving Society (SLRG) (must be no older than 4 years)
As from 2022, the Y+S leader certificate and the experience of working are no longer necessary.
Recognized equivalent qualifications
Baccalaureate
Equivalents:
- Primary school teaching certificate (Primarlehrerpatent)
- Integrative secondary school certificate (Integrative Mittelschule IMSF)
- International Baccalaureate Diploma with 32 out of 42 points excluding bonus points (in 6 separate general education subjects, of which at least three subjects at Higher Level (one of which must be a maths or science subject))
- German higher education entrance qualification (Fachhochschulreife)
- Diploma from a VET/PET college
Not equivalent:
- College of further education, two or three years
- Secondary school certificate (without baccalaureate)
- Professional NCO in the armed forces
First-aid certificate
Equivalents:
- SRC nursing auxiliary (Pfleghelfer/-in SRK)
- Registered nurse (Pflegefachfrau HF)
- Health professional (Fachangestellte Gesundheit (FAGE))
- Medical practice assistant (Medizinische Praxisassistentin (MPA))
- First-aid certificate from Swiss Medical Corps (SSK)
- Military paramedic
- Military hospital staff
- Rescue level 1 certificate for nonprofessionals (Laienzertifizierung Rettungswesen Niveau I)
- Mountain guide training
- Johanniter first-aid course (16-hour course)
- PHTLS (Prehospital Trauma Life Support) Military first response
Not equivalent:
- Emergency first-responder certificate (Nothelferausweis)
- BLS-AED certificate from Swiss Federation of Samaritans
Brevet Basis Pool lifesaving certificate from Swiss Lifesaving Society SLRG
Equivalents:
- German lifesaving badge «DLRG-SILBER»
- Brevet igba PRO
Further information on equivalent previous education
- SFISM's examination board will decide whether courses and qualifications are equivalent. Potential equivalent qualifications will be decided on a case-by-case basis. E-mail your documents (degree certificate, content, duration etc.) for checking to mailto:bachelor@baspo.admin.ch
- See also the FAQs for further information and explanations of the certificates required.
- Information about the equivalence of foreign degrees can be obtained from the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI.
- Information about obtaining a licence to teach in Switzerland with a sports degree obtained abroad is available from the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education EDK.
Information on the military
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Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen SFISM
Administration education and further education
Hauptstrasse 247
CH-2532 Magglingen