Switzerland prides itself on its high standard of publicly-funded education. All Swiss universities, despite their different histories and diverse approaches and research focus, share a drive for quality in teaching and research. This results in their consistently being ranked among the best universities in the world.

Swissuniversity.ch is a full-fledged promotional internet portal for the 12 Swiss public universities and federal institutes of technology. It aims at presenting and promoting the study and research opportunities offered by these institutions, and at positioning Switzerland as an excellent destination for studying and research. It mainly targets an international audience of prospective Master and PhD students, although useful information is offered to several other categories of users as well.

Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.

Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.

Our Courses
Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of our classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of our classes, you'll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you. We know that your life is busy, and that you have many commitments on your time. Thus, our courses are designed based on sound pedagogical foundations, to help you master new concepts quickly and effectively. Key ideas include mastery learning, to make sure that you have multiple attempts to demonstrate your new knowledge; using interactivity, to ensure student engagement and to assist long-term retention; and providing frequent feedback, so that you can monitor your own progress, and know when you've really mastered the material.

We offer courses in a wide range of topics, spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others. Whether you're looking to improve your resume, advance your career, or just learn more and expand your knowledge, we hope there will be multiple courses that you find interesting.

Debbie Millman is a writer, educator, artist, brand consultant and host of the radio show Design Matters.

The Vignelli Center for Design Studies is an educational resource center at Rochester Institute
of Technology.

Its primary goals are to advocate design excellence at RIT and beyond through innovative programming, supported by extensive archival holdings of design exemplars.

The Vignelli Center for Design Studies is a place for design education, research and critical examination. The key concept in all areas of the Center’s work is the rigorous reflection of Modernism–the discourse of Modernism, which forms a bridge between the history of design and the Vignelli design tradition. The Center’s aims therefore are to conserve, research
and extend this cultural heritage and, at the same time, investigate current design issues.

A filing cabinet on the internet by Rob Giampietro. Read about design, art, philosophy, education, and more.

Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to forty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study.

As future leaders, with a lasting understanding of British society, Marshall Scholars strengthen the enduring relationship between the British and American peoples, their governments and their institutions. Marshall Scholars are talented, independent and wide-ranging, and their time as Scholars enhances their intellectual and personal growth. Their direct engagement with Britain through its best academic programmes contributes to their ultimate personal success.

Technology is revolutionizing the world of education – replacing familiar classroom tools and changing the way we learn. MindShift explores the future of learning in all its dimensions – covering cultural and technology trends, groundbreaking research, education policy and more. The site is curated by Tina Barseghian, a journalist and mother of a grade-schooler.

Explore is about the evolving definition, process, and promise of learning. It’s a cross-disciplinary lens on what stimulates, what enriches, and what matters—an intellectual and creative incubator for cultivating your interests, and a discovery engine for things you didn't know you were interested in, until you are.

Explore embodies Coursekit’s aspiration to reshape education in the Information Age, and is edited by Maria Popova of Brain Pickings.

We’re reshaping education for the internet age.

We’ve re-imagined what a class should look like online. We give instructors and students amazingly designed tools to manage their courses – calendaring, file management – and we make it unbelievably easy to interact with one another.

We believe that there’s a lot more to class than lecture. Post links, videos, files. Start discussions. Write a blog post. Ask about an assignment. Classes are meant to be social, but they rarely are. We’re changing that.

We’ve designed every aspect of the experience, down to the pixel. We forgot what we knew about clunky university software and built something that is completely state of the art.

Highlighting the most interesting ideas from in and around the academic world.

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, established in 1859, is among the nation's oldest and most distinguished institutions of higher learning. The organization, the legacy of Peter Cooper, occupies a special place in the cultural fabric of American life.

A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.

The International Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design UIC/HGK (MFA/MAS) is a collaboration of the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) and the FHNW/HGK Visual Communication Institute. It focuses on graphic designers, visual communication designers and media designers, with a bachelor's degree or an equivalent degree and professional design experience.
The MFA UIC/HGK addresses students who want to be part of an international program influenced by the tradition of Swiss Graphic Design and the current academic perspective and standards of the Visual Communication Institute, The Basel School of Design. Of special interest for students is the opportunity to graduate with an internationally accredited Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Graphic Design (UIC) and the Swiss equivalent, MAS in Graphic Design I, Iconicism and Graphic Design II, Mediality. Students are matriculated and registered at UIC with classes being held at the FHNW/HGK Visual Communication Institute in Basel.
Graphic Design, Visual Communication and Media Design, give visual form to messages that become a part of our everyday lives. Although these disciplines contribute to the much discussed "image flood" in today’s societies, we find implicit knowledge about the meaning of images, the process of creating them and their media references of extreme importance. It is on this central theme that the MFA and the MAS Graphic Design I, II is focused. Therefore, the goal of the program is the deepening of process-oriented design skills through project oriented design work with enhanced analytical competence in image theory and the media sciences.

Studio H is a public high school "design/build" curriculum that sparks rural community development through real-world, built projects.

A one-year, three-semester MA program in critical social theory focused on the arts, including the study of art theory and aesthetics, social history, social theory and the history of art.

The Society of Design (SOD) is a non-profit organization dedicated to multidisciplinary design education and community service.

The organization strives to elevate and expand the discourse on design while providing inspiration to its members and the general public through an annual speakers series, tours, exhibits, and other initiatives. Additionally, the organization regularly takes on community service and fundraising efforts in support of other non-profits and encourages its members to actively volunteer.

The MFA in Design for Social Innovation will prepare students to apply the principles and ethics of social innovation as filters for understanding and as a discipline for engaging with and improving the world through design. Graduates of the program will be more than graphic designers, filmmakers, advertising creative directors or interactive systems designers. They will be all these, mastering all the skills and knowledge of how to apply them to have a positive impact on business, society and their own lives.

Herron’s graduate program in design prepares students to become leaders in design and design thinking. Students learn and practice the skills that help them succeed in many roles in a range of diverse fields including communication design, design strategy, design planning, design research and design education.

This innovative two-year program trains students to research, analyze, and evaluate design and its social and environmental implications.

The School of Visual Arts MFA in Design Criticism seeks to cultivate design criticism as a discipline and contribute to public discourse with new writing and thinking that is imaginative, historically informed and socially accountable. Drawing on the broadest possible definition of design, the curriculum includes graphic, Web and product design, as well as fashion, urban planning and network systems. The course of study couples a theoretical framework with significant opportunities for practical experience. In providing the tools for researching, analyzing, evaluating and chronicling all aspects of design, students will prepare for careers as design critics, journalists, editors, curators, educators and design managers.

Creative Growth Art Center serves adult artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities, providing a stimulating environment for artistic instruction, gallery promotion and personal expression. Artwork fostered in this unique environment is included in prominent collections and museums worldwide.