Campus of the University of St. Gallen
The University of St. Gallen (HSG) is a leading university in Europe, with strong traditions. Founded in 1898, it became a fully-fledged business school in 1911. At that time, St. Gallen was a booming centre of the European textile industry, exporting its famous embroidery all over the world.
Today, the HSG has one of the largest management faculties in Continental Europe, and a 5,000 full time student body. It offers a full range of undergraduate, postgraduate, executive (both degree and short-term) and doctoral programmes in management, economics, law and international affairs. Renowned for its proximity to the business world, its basic and applied research and the quality of its graduates, the University of St. Gallen enjoys an unrivalled reputation.
In all programmes, the HSG teaches students to adopt a crossfunctional rather than a single function approach and it offers interdisciplinary classes in for instance economics and law. Since the 1960s, the university has been a pioneer of a systemic approach to general management. The St. Gallen Management Model has won international acclaim as a holistic framework which allows to structure the multifarious challenges for a successful and accountable management in an appropriately complex but nevertheless integrated way. Placing special emphasis on the complex relationships between companies and their multiple environmental spheres, it has also been one of the intellectual linchpins of the St. Gallen Symposium.
The university’s student body is extremely active in numerous student initiatives, clubs, arts and different sports activities in which the students demonstrate their entrepreneurship and zest for action.
