The HWZ has a strong national and international network of partners. The cooperation with renowned and competent partners ensures an excellent level of education and the continuous input of the latest insights from the applied world into the teaching.
The ASCO is the representative of Swiss management consultants. It is the knowledge platform and the information hub regarding all issues concerning management consulting in Switzerland.

The Beijing Union University is a renowned public University in the capital of China. It offers exchange programs for Bachelor students in cooperation with the HWZ.
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The Branding Institute provides scientifically based practical solutions for the challenges posed by integrated brand management. The institute supports the HWZ in designing and developing the MAS Business Communications course.
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The “Controller Akademie” provides practical public and company-internal training for controllers and managers. It supports the HWZ in designing and developing the MAS Controlling.
The “Deutsche Immobilien-Akademie” at the University of Freiburg (Germany) is one of the big training institutions in Germany. It supports the HWZ in designing and developing the MAS Real Estate Management.

The European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) is a unique alliance of companies, business schools and academic institutions that is, with the support of the European Commission, committed to integrating business in society issues into the heart of business theory and practice in Europe.

Companies from all industry sectors, public institutions as well as personalities from business and science are members of Swiss Marketing (“Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Marketing, GfM”). As a politically and economically independent organization, the GfM lobbies for a market-oriented management of companies. It supports the HWZ in designing and developing the Executive MBA in Marketing.

The Fund Academy in Zurich is a training service provider. Core teaching contents include: modern stock exchange and investment instruments focusing on collective and structured capital investments. The Fund Academy designs and offers the CAS Swiss Certified Investment Products Expert (SCIPE®) in association with the HWZ.
The Haaga University in Helsinki offers a student exchange semester in Finland to the bachelor students of the HWZ.
Grouped together under the name “Internationale Bodensee Hochschule”, 25 Universities from Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria and Switzerland are cooperating with each other. The HWZ is actively cooperating in this group.

The MAZ in Lucerne is the leading journalism school in Switzerland. It offers training for those working in the media industry as well as courses for managers and executives in charge of dealing with the media.
The MAZ supports the HWZ in designing and developing the MAS Business Communications.
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pro:campaigning is the competence center for integrated communications management and is the leader in quality assurance and development of the campaigning theory, training and application. pro:campaigning designs and offers the CAS Campaigning together with the HWZ.
SAQ-QUALICON is a recognized and leading education institute for Quality Management (incl. IT), Quality Assurance, Business Excellence (EFQM), Process Management, Six Sigma and Risk Management in Switzerland. In cooperation with HWZ SAQ-QUALICON is responsible for different CAS Certificates in the program Master Quality Leadership.

The training center of the Swiss Real Estate School does not only offer courses and degrees to its members but promotes all those working in the real estate sector through its services. SVIT supports the HWZ in designing and developing the MAS Real Estate Management.

The SGO Training has been educating leaders and employees in the fields of Organizational Behavior, Project Management, Process Management and Change Management for 40 years.
The SGO supports the HWZ in designing and developing the MAS Business Engineering & Business Consulting.

The Swiss Institute for Business Administration SIB has been the preferred address for leadership and business administration training and qualification since 1963. In cooperation with the HWZ, the SIB also acts as the operations center for certain HWZ master degree courses.
For almost 40 years, the Swiss PR-Institute SPRI has been focusing on the practical, part-time training of leaders and specialists in communications / PR. Within the HWZ’s MAS Business Communications, the SPRI is responsible for the prescribed module CAS Corporate Communications as well as several other electives.
The private and officially recognized Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin (SHB) was founded in 1998 and offers professional and practical study programs with recognized diplomas to its students as well as to companies. It offers a range of diplomas, Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees right up to Doctorates. Currently more than 3,000 working students study at the SHB, making use of the Steinbeis’ own project-competence study concept.
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The Swiss Real Estate Institute is an independent institute of the Swiss real estate industry in the form of a trust. It is part of the HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich and focuses its efforts on teaching, research and services / consulting. The founding partners of the Swiss Real Estate Institute are the HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich, the “KV Schweiz” and the “Schweizerische Verband der Immobilienwirtschaft SVIT Schweiz”.

This renowned US University offers to the HWZ Bachelor students the opportunity of a student exchange semester as well as summer courses to enrich their English and business knowledge.
This internationally known and recognized partner University in Australia cooperates with the HWZ in the area of MBA (Master of Business Administration) and DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) courses.

The renowned Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia cooperated with the HWZ in its EMBA Marketing degree course.

The Swiss Society of Graduate Experts in Accounting and Controlling is the largest Swiss specialists’ association for established leaders in accounting and controlling. It supports the HWZ in designing and developing the MAS in Accounting & Finance.

wittlin stauffer consulting and management training focuses its services to health care institutions. In cooperation with the HWZ, wittlin stauffer offers management training for leaders in the health-care sector.

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