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HSG has been part of St.Gallen for more than one hundred years, initially as a “business academy” and today as a university. We allow our students to profit from an ideal mix of research and practical experience. In order to facilitate top achievements in teaching and research, all aspects must be right. Every person who is part of the University is dedicated to quality. The following pages provide information about the people behind the organization of the University of St.Gallen and the services we provide. As a leading business university, we set global standards for research and teaching by promoting integrative thought, responsible action, and an entrepreneurial spirit of innovation in business and society. We offer talented and committed students a carefully calibrated range of courses at all degree levels from initial training to further education that satisfy the highest international standards and are recognized worldwide. We challenge and encourage our students through educational excellence in an inspiring campus environment, transparent course structures, and efficient administrative processes. Through the constant and innovative further development of our study programs, we respond attentively to the developments and needs of both sciences and the global labor market. We train our students to become entrepreneurs whose actions are informed by social responsibility, whose integrated thinking enables them to solve complex practical and academic problems in a structured manner, communicate the results well, and harness social and cultural orientation skills. The working environment we provide at the University of St.Gallen (HSG) ensures that academics who are committed to undertaking scholarship and who are interested in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches find here an excellent place for research and reflection that, thanks to our unfettered commitment to academic freedom, enables them to research the highest level of excellence. We encourage our employees’ innovative entrepreneurial spirit through structuring our schools, institutes, and study programs in a way that helps in maintaining University’s interests and facilitates the achievement of its objectives. In the interest of achieving these objectives, we support initiatives by researchers, teachers, and students. Our integration of economic, legal, social, and cultural perspectives and international affairs allows us to conduct research that makes a significant contribution to solving current and future economic and social issues. Through this research, we are globally perceived as an opinion leader in our analyses of selected issues. We are committed to a culture of trust and cooperation between the students, academic staff, and the HSG administration based on mutual respect, flat hierarchies, and a willingness to communicate in a non-bureaucratic manner. At the same time, we preserve a size that permits us to create our clear profile, pursue a sensible internal division of labor, and enhance our position on the international academic market while still allowing personal encounters and simple structures. We convey to our students the fundamental values of living and working collaboratively on the HSG campus by encouraging their extracurricular engagement alongside their education and foster life-long ties between our graduates and the University with the active involvement of our alumni. We pursue an active inclusion policy backed by the entire University when dealing with diversity. For this purpose, we ensure full equality of all university members regardless of their gender, religious and sexual orientation, social and ethnic origin, or their health needs and restrictions, with a focus on problem-solving approaches. As a consequence of the global presence of our research and the fact that we systematically enable both students and academic staff to gather study and research experience in foreign countries, the HSG makes its mark worldwide as a university that is highly attractive for students, teachers, and researchers alike on an international scale. We understand HSG’s cultivation and reinforcement of its roots in the city and the canton to be a central feature of our University’s identity. Therefore, we strengthen the region by increasing its international visibility and, at the same time, make ourselves available locally as a scientific and cultural resource. In this way, we safeguard St.Gallen as an educational location in the long term and contribute to creating economic and social value in the region. As a state university, we are careful to create a secure financial framework that safeguards our teaching and research quality. For this reason, besides our traditional cultivation of a sense of entrepreneurship, we develop financing models based on which we can further open up and expand the range of our academic activities and strategic scope for development. In all this, we are fully aware of the special responsibility that, as a public institution, we bear for how we meet these challenges. View full university