University of Bern

Founded in 1834, the University of Bern is a public Swiss university. With more than 18.000 students, it is the third biggest university in Switzerland. It is a comprehensive university offering a broad choice of courses and programs in eight faculties and some 150 institutes. Its Physics Institute contributed to the first flight to the moon and still carries out experiments and provides apparatus for NASA and ESA space missions on a regular basis. The university is ranked 114^th in the world by QS World University Rankings and 109^th in the world by Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It is also ranked among the 150 best universities in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.