Private school Institut Auf Dem Rosenberg

Swiss Boarding School? I am Rosenberg – the world at home at Institut auf dem Rosenberg.

Institut auf dem Rosenberg is located in St. Gallen, in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The history of the city dates back to 1612, when the Irish monk Gallus founded a monastery, which in the Middle Ages became an important cultural, scientific and creative centre. Today, the monastery library constantly attracts visitors who come to take a look at the updated collection of unique books and even a real mummy.

Since its founding in 1889, Institut auf dem Rosenberg has educated students in a multicultural and multilingual environment. It is located between Lake Constance and Alpstein (section of the Alps), which allows you to conduct a huge number of sporting events for children and youth. Clean air, temperate climate and healthy natural conditions - what could be better for students?

Students from all over the world study at the institute. During its existence, the school has gained a high international reputation. After the First World War and the death of the founder, Dr. Schmidt, in 1924, the institute faces a number of difficulties that were solved by transforming the school into an educational foundation in 1930. Thus, "Institut Dr. Schmidt" became Institut auf dem Rosenberg, and since then the name Gademann has become inextricably linked with it (this is the name of the current president of the school). Thus, the "Dr. Schmidt Institute" became Institut auf dem Rosenberg.

After World War II, the further development of Institut auf dem Rosenberg continues. In the early fifties, the school began to offer a number of national exams and began to prepare students for German, Swiss, Italian and Anglo-American qualifications and certificates.

The school is 80 km away. from Zurich airport and only 10 km. from Alterheyn airport. This is the most beautiful school in terms of territory and interior decoration in Switzerland. It resembles a high-class hotel. The biology cabinet, for example, is made in the form of a glass greenhouse, standing as if in the middle of a lake from which fountains beat. In case of arrival during the rain, all visitors are given romantic pink umbrellas, and pink Rolls-Royce can send you to the airport for you.

DIRECTOR (stand 2026)

Bernhard Gademann, education - master's degree in business management, bachelor's degree in international business from the European Business School of London (EBSL) in London.

Famous school graduates

• Mario Molina, chemist, Nobel laureate in chemistry
• Christopher O'Neill, businessman
• Gunter Sash, photographer, businessman
• Alexander, Hereditary Prince of Hohenzollern

KEY FACTORS

• On the school grounds, as well as on each floor of each building, there are security cameras that ensure safety.
• In close collaboration with parents, children develop faith in themselves and soon forget about the difficulties of adaptation that they experienced when they first arrived at school.
• Children watch TV only once a week, as they just don’t have time for this.
• Younger students are an important part of the student community; they sit with their seniors during meals and attend events with them. After classes and the time allotted for the preparation of homework, they are free to walk and relax.
• Institut auf dem Rosenberg teaches children the values ​​of life, such as tradition, respect, tolerance and discipline.
• There is no uniform at school, but an elegant dress code has been adopted.
• We visited this school and are familiar with the principal.
• We can provide the phones of parents whose children study or studied at this school.

EQUIPMENT

The school’s facilities include sports fields, tennis courts, facilities for art classes, laboratories, an IT centre, linguistic classrooms - in short, absolutely everything you need for a successful education.

PROGRAM

The Rosenberg Institute has an impressive academic record and offers the following school programmes:

British GCSE and A-level programmes

GCSE is a two-year General Certificate of Secondary Education programme. 6 subjects are compulsory, 4 subjects are optional.

A-level is a two-year university preparatory programme. Pupils choose 4 or 5 subjects for advanced study.

International Baccalaureate (IB)

An International Baccalaureate programme recognised by universities around the world. Pupils study 6 subjects: 3 at advanced level and 3 at standard level. In addition to this, students write an extended essay, take a Theory of Knowledge (Practical Philosophy) course and a CAS (Creativity, Activity and Support) course.

American High School Diploma Programme

A programme of preparation for university entrance. The content of the programme is based strictly on Canadian and US university entrance requirements. At the end of the programme, students receive a high school diploma. The programme is aimed at students planning to further study at colleges, universities and business schools in these countries.

The programme content is based strictly on Canadian and US university entrance requirements.

American Advanced Placement Programme

A programme that prepares students for university entrance. Students study major subjects according to the programme of the university they are preparing for admission to and take examinations as a result of their studies. The AP programme consists of courses in subject areas. Students select several subjects from the suggested areas for advanced study.

Subjects are taken at the freshman level of the university with learning credits (points) earned through exams. Students typically take exams in three or more subjects. AP exams are recognised by most universities in the United States and Canada.

ACCOMMODATION

The houses where the students live were originally villas and are located in a residential area surrounded by greenery. Pupils live in separate houses according to gender and age. The campus is located in a very green, exclusive residential area in the halo of hundreds of roses blooming all summer. The school territory covers more than 100,000 sqm In the residence, students are surrounded by care and attention. Parents are often surprised at how quickly self-confidence develops in their children. Of course, from time to time you can see a teacher sitting by the bed and holding a crying child by the handle, however, step by step, children cease to need constant individual attention and develop independence.

In this school, special emphasis is placed on living: here it is believed that the children of successful parents should live away from the family in the same wonderful conditions as at home. Here they believe that children should be surrounded by beauty and even the luxury in which they are going to live in their adult life. Accustom children to a luxurious lifestyle. Therefore, in the corridors of the residences there are expensive marble floors, carpet paths on stairs, paintings in gilded frames, carved wood doors ... The president of the school, Mr. Gademan, by his own admission, works for the “rich and beautiful”. He also believes that living conditions should be very individual, and strongly opposes the "army system", "egalitarianism." Therefore, Rosenberg offers children of any age single rooms for an additional fee, which is possible in other schools only for the oldest students.

Of course, it is in Rosenberg that the most delicious food is.

SPORT

Well-balanced leisure and a range of sporting events allow children to develop comprehensively.

Alpine skiing, snowboarding, ice skating in winter, tennis and water skiing in summer, as well as football, basketball, mountain biking, rock climbing, golf, swimming, dancing, fencing - and this is not a complete range of activities offered to children.

Sporting events are complemented by cultural trips to Zurich, Geneva, Lucerne, Milan, Munich and Innsbruck, as well as visits to museums, galleries, theatres and opera houses, as well as local cultural events.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

During the school year, the school hosts various cultural events. The annual Rosenberg Ball is, without a doubt, the central event of the whole year. At this time, guests from all over the world come together to once again enjoy the grandiose performance that our students and pupils prepared in intensive training and rehearsals; the training is led by specialists in the genre of stage production.

On afternoons on Wednesdays and Saturdays, as well as on Sunday, standard leisure programs are held. They are designed for different age groups and include activities such as:

• Europa Park Rust
• Karting in Montlingen, Sulgen, Wolen
• Climbing training in the sports complex Kronberg and Immenstadt
• Sports complex in Winterthur
• Exhibitions (Basel)
• Local exhibitions
• Evening skiing
• Orientation
• Automotive Salon in Geneva
• Skiing in Laax, Lenzerheide, Klosters, Davos, Grush-Danuza
• Visiting the Davos ski race
• Visit to sled competitions in Kronberg, Atzmannik, Betsau
• Sports tournaments in tennis, table tennis, football, bowling and so on.
• City tours (Zurich, Lucerne, Bern, Munich, Innsbruck, Como, Milan)
• Informative and interactive city tour
• Walking in the Alpstein region (Seealp, Schwaegalp, Zentis)
• Visiting zoos and aquariums (Gossau, Zurich, Konstanz)

COST, 2026-2027

CHF 100,000 per year.

Included in cost

• Teaching
• Accommodation and meals

Extra paid

• Additional Student Opportunities - CHF 65,000 per year:
  single room accommodation, insurance, individual tuition, laundry, trips and excursions
• Flights
• Transfers to / from the airport
• Visa
• Services of the company "Paradise"

Our services and fees

Catherine Mkrtchyan's success story

Catherine was good at learning foreign languages from an early age and her family thought about giving her the opportunity to study abroad. As a result, the decision was made, and from the 6th grade Catherine moved to Switzerland, where she started studying at the famous school Institut auf dem Rosenberg. In which, by the way, as it was recently revealed at the reunion, studied singer Emin and many other famous personalities.

Prosperous and manicured Switzerland, wonderful climate, school territory drowning in roses, white piano in the canteen - all this, of course, disposed to comfortable and interesting learning. And before we knew it, Catherine had successfully graduated from school and inadvertently mastered three foreign languages - perfect English and German, and Italian on top of that. Read more