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You can start with an apprenticeship and continue towards a BSc and beyond as you mature an realize you'll benefit from further education. There are plenty of b
by hocuspocus 2y ago
You can start with an apprenticeship and continue towards a BSc and beyond as you mature an realize you'll benefit from further education. There are plenty of bridges from the vocational school track, all the way to proper universities.
I greatly enjoyed high school in Switzerland because it is selective and 70% of my middle school classmates didn't make it.
- cvilgan 2y agoI did an apprenticeship and then went to complete a M.Sc. at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), with only one year of additional school compared to going through high school. Wouldn't have wanted it any other way...
- karmakurtisaani 2y agoInteresting, how common is this in your experience?
- hocuspocus 2y agoIt's not very common, in my CS class at EPFL I think about 2-3% of students came from an apprenticeship. Though more recently I have two former coworkers who followed a similar path and are now at Apple and Google respectively. On the other hand, pursuing a B.Sc (and possibly M.Sc) at a "university of applied sciences" (FH or HES in the local parlance) part time (i.e. while on the job, as a working student), is very common nowadays.